Texas Gardening: Mother Lode on the "Rescue Me Aisle" @ Lowe's, 0 by UniQueTreasures

UniQueTreasures wrote:
Hi TxFlower,

Thank you. So far, I like it. Tomorrow I will get the bed ready with the cloth and the mulch. I bought 15 bags the other day so there will be plenty of mulch. The more I think about it, the more I am against planting anything into the ground. I'm trying to think of "deadheading" etc. as I map the plants out. I'd like to put in a little pathway with maybe some stepping stones around the pond form.

With prices like that, we can find all kinds of reasons to have to stop by Lowe's. Afterall, it's close to Goodwill. HAHAHAHAHA Can you tell we are Goodwill-aholics??? Connie and I don't leave home without our Get Outta Goodwill Free Cards. (Customer Value Cards that get stamps with each purchase. Once filled, you get 15.00 in msde.)

I saw your thread and couldn't think of anything to add after Josephine posted. She's always a wise lady with excellent advice. From the looks of it, you will have a gorgeous garden when it fills out. It shows that you've put a lot of thought into your planning.

Patience has never been my strong suit. Though I do work on it. I'm an instant gratification kind of gal. That's why this is so super for me. I had told hubby when we talked about what to put there, that I wanted an explosion of colors to pop against the white house. He's soooooooooooo conservative. I'm more "chaotic". I think my little area will be pretty when it finally gets finished. I'm trying to plan in some things that will hold their interest through the few cold days we get here, until the perennials come back in the spring.

I don't know if Lowe's has their winter plants on sale or not. It's usually just whatever doesn't look so swell. I am not much interested in buying any winter plants here because we just don't have a winter. HAHAHAHAHA Generally, I put my garden/yard to bed in November and don't start thinking about it again until February. One lady there said they do this several times a week during the heat of the summer. They want to get full buck for their plant, but at the prices, if they don't look perfect, no one wants to buy them. What a shame that some folks have no vision of what a little TLC will do for a plant.

I'm learning to garden more thrifty from the folks here at Dave's. Trying to learn which plants give more "bang for the buck"! HAHAHAHAHA Before joining Dave's, I had absolutely no idea there were sooooooooooooooo many different plants out there.

I received an email from my aunt this evening. I'd pretty much copied and pasted the thread in an email to my folks, adding my own "email size" photos, to save having to re-write that lengthy story. This is what she wrote me back:

"Now I just can't believe you got all those for that measly little $7.58. I don't know if your mom told you or not about me being at Lowes and the lady in front of me got all these plants that were absolutely dead as far as I was concerned, and the bill came to $155.00 I almost fell over. Janet they were the worst looking things I have ever seen, but I knew they were on the discount counter, but when she said to the lady $155.00 I almost fell over. Your plants were beautiful, and I can not for the life of me see how that woman would have ever gotten those plants to come back to life. They were actually all brown where it was suppose to be green. Not a green sprig. I am very proud of you all for getting all those at that price. "

This is the other side of that same little fence that runs in front of the front door area.

These are in the ground already. I should have put the weed cloth down before I planted them, but I got impatient. I may see if they've taken hold and pull them back out, if not. At least the holes will already be there! HAHAHAHA I dug them out when the ground was so muddy!

Janet