Gardening, anyone?
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Scottie- the rocks are looking good. Glad you could supervise and not have to do the hard labor that goes with all that. The pruning would have been a a bit easier, although you must still be tired. It is looking really great!
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happy first day of spring! In Florida visiting my mom this weekend. Haven't seen her since before my surgery in January & first trip flying. Heading home later today. Outside her assisted living facility.
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Or, in reference to cartoon above, tassels from your poplar trees which somehow manage to get under the windshield wipers. Nothing like a big swath of water at eye level.
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Teka.. HaHa 😃
Baltus.. Beautiful photo !!! Glad you got to visit with your Mum..!
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I decided this year that I had too much Spring work to do so I hired a professional to do the front foundation landscaping. The old foundation plants had to be removed when we replaced the siding on the house. It's too early for perennial flowers yet so there's more to come.
Before:
After:
The small bush with the leaves is a lilac. It will look lovely in the early Summer.
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Ananda, it looks lovely now! It's amazing what good landscaping can to to lift the curb appeal of a home. Love your house,the siding color is so pretty with the white accents.
Do any of you plant according to the moon? I never have, but I want to transplant a clematis and want it to take root well in its new surroundings, so I looked up some info on when to do that according to the moon phases and will try it and see if it works
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Ananda.. Your home and garden look lovely. :-)
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Very nice start to your landscaping ananda. I am currently paying for using my hedge cutters last Saturday. Apparently I was not ready for that. Guess I will just supervise the spring planting/landscaping from here on.
Scottie
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Good evening friends- as I was walking back from the mailbox tonight, I could smell lilacs in the air and my neighbor has a beautiful bush blooming in his yard. I am going to ask him if I can cut some and put them into a vase. Stay tuned for that!
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I miss lilacs. We always had them in NJ growing up but the ones in TX are not the same. My sweet husband posted some photos on FB this weekend while I was in FL visiting my mom about the pops of color coming up in our yard thanks to his wife. Very sweet of him.
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Baltus... Gorgeous pops of colour.. I love that expression :-)
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ariom- beautiful pic of the birds. I live in Vancouver, BC, and am looking forward to starting a small container garden. That is all I have room for, but am looking forward to starting this hobby
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Balthus, how gorgeous! I love hibiscus, one of my favorites. We have the tulip and cherry trees in bloom here in Vancouver. The city looks so pretty in pink
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Thanks all!
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Funny how something different can be so appealing.. Hubby helped a neighbour chop down a couple of trees, and he bought the wood home to save for a friend who lives down south. I thought it would be messy and irritate me... But I fallen in love with it.!! HaHa :-)

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We are supposed to get some nice rainfall tonight into tomorrow, so I am in the yard today fertilizing my roses with Jobe's plant spikes. I don't often use fertilizer, too costly, too much work, but last summer one Rose had more green than blooms, so I thought I'd try the spikes on it and figured the grandiflora could benefit from fertilizer, too. So I just decided to give all the roses at least one round of food to get things started off right. I have a climbing red Rose that never flourishes, so I'll see if this helps that, too.
I'm also putting down Preen weed preventer so the rain waters it in.0 -
just spied some low hanging fruit. Neighbor's lilac hanging on my side of the fence! Added some Virginia bluebells. In real life/clothing/decor I would never out these colors together, but nature makes it work!
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Beautiful - it's like I can smell them from the photo.
I noticed buds on my lilacs just yesterday and today we are covered with ice and snow. So much so that all the schools have closed.
Ug. Good thing they are toughies.
Edited to add photo.
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So pretty, Jackie. I personally love blue and purple paired together and green enhances it
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I've noticed any time things are blooming simultaneously, it works! I'm so excited, things are really starting to happen now. Planting my sweet peas out this week. Yay!
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Jbean. .love yourr photo.. So the snow won't effect the buds?
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Thanks Lucy.Probably not - they are hardy.
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Jackie. . .very pretty flowers. My gardens are just starting to come up and bloom. I have a few early knockout roses and my encore azaleas are blooming. The purple Formosas are covered in large buds. I hope some of them open by Sunday morning for Easter.
My sweet Dh bought me gift since he knows I love all things English - a fancy galvanized steel old fashioned watering can,
Scottie
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Can't believe I just found this thread!
I've gone through four landscapers since we built this house ten years ago. Today I have only a handful of the plants they put in.
Last year, the drought in California was so bad, and our watering restrictions were so strict, I actually hired a landscape designer to educate us on heat- and drought tolerant plants. We pulled out all the thirsty plants, and installed high efficiency sprinklers for the small lawn, and a drip system in the garden. Unfortunately, we have a large lot.
In our back yard, though, the neighbors behind us had a row of 20 year old redwoods that turned the back into a beautiful shade garden with ferns and azaleas.
This past weekend we woke up to the sound of chain saws. Yep - the house was sold, and the new owners cut down and ripped out every single tree and shrub. Now I get to start all over again.
Looking forward to seeing everyone's pics!
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Blessings.. Oh no.!! Enjoy planning your new garden :-)
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Blessings, wow, cutting all those trees seems so drastic! Not to mention costly!
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Scottie- what a lovely watering can!
Blessings- welcome! I am so sorry to hear about those trees being cut down. Wrong on so many levels. And you've lost your shade. I'm so sorry.
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Blessings, Sorry about losing the trees. It's not like you can grow your own overnight. SIL lives in So Cal and says she's losing trees due to lack of water. She's doing the same thing about replacing thirsty with sturdy.
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Today as dh and I were running some errands, I noticed that delightful lime green tinge is starting to appear on the trees, always a beautiful sight to see as the leaves start coming on for spring. There is also a gorgeous red appearing in some of the maples. It really makes my heart sing. Chilly today, tho, 39 degrees.
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Thanks, Lucy55, DivineMrsM, Jackbirdie, and Wren44….
I admit – I was almost hysterical when I saw the wasteland that was left after ALL the plants were removed. But I met with the new owner, and found out that he is really nice.
His rationale for removing the huge redwoods were that they were planted wrong in the first place – in small, raised beds, leaving no room for deep root expansion. He was afraid that in a big rainstorm, a tree could fall on his house, or ours. And he’s right…. We are stuck with hardpan here, and trees really need deep, amended holes before they are placed. And you don’t plant giant redwoods three feet apart, no matter how nice it makes your yard look.
His plan is to replace all the trees with more sustainable ones. Yes, it will take a while for them to grow, but at least we’ll have something green to look at, as opposed to what looks like a dry Las Vegas suburb with no plants at all.
When he gets done planting, then I’ll fill in my side with new trees. Right now I’m thinking of some cedars we brought down from our mountain house years ago (in pots) along with a few Podocarpus trimmed up as trees. They won’t grow as high as the redwoods, but they’ll be evergreen.
Here is a pic from last year:
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