Mid-Atlantic Gardening: rocks???, 0 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
What a nice Thread! I just found it!
I just HAVE TO go "outside the Box" if only my watched Treads....
Every now and then--I do check the MAF to see if there are any new Posts...

All I would need is about 10 rocks to edge a small, corner bed where the
old RR tie is completely rotted out....I think it was put down in 1972--along with
all the other massive RR ties my hubby and cousin hauled out of a ditch and
brought home. I love them--but many of them have become termite food....

Re snakes......
I have lived in my house for 42 years now and only one summer (2006) I saw a
black snake here. I was a bit apprehensive--but still ran inside and grabbed my camera....
For an hour--I just followed it all through my flower beds--then as it climbed my old
Juniper bushes out front for a rendezvous with another one. They did their thing and slithered
down from the bush and went underneath my concrete front steps. NOW I freaked out!
Visions of a "litter" of snakes came to mind--as well as them getting into my house, somehow,
Brom the block base it is built up from.

Never saw it again. I wouldn't mind having one--have too many chipmunks and rabbits...

Here is a picture of it. I got a bit too close with my camera--and it coiled up...