Propagation: Propagation: part X based on my own experience, 1 by Pughbear7

Pughbear7 wrote:
Hi Jeanette:
Yes it was a sight to behold and we recieved many compliments. they were the tropical heather Cuphea. not the perrienial ones. I am trying to get into the more hardy ones but its been slow because of so many other things pulling me in every which dirrection.
ahh therapy.... its 3 times a week till next week as transport becomes an issue. I am doing quite a bit at home as well. It looks like we are in good shape as I am close to having full range of motion. I have one rotation that is really a tough one. the one where you are putting your hand behind the back. still a bit tight but I have a new exercise to work on as well as lots of stuff to work with it.
Yes clean up is a nasty necessity. we did a lot of that on saturday. It was georgous outside mid 70's light breeze. DW got all the old azaleas pulled out and all the pieces of landscape timber pulled out. leveled the ground from whaere the tree was cut down and stum was ground up. Its funny how fast it turns to black organic matter almost a soil. by next spring it will be a soil.
We found 3 gallon red tip photinnia on sale $5.00 each nice base just need to be trimmed up and cuttings stuck (grins). red tips are a bread and butter plant here. they use it for hedges, screens and tree form on occasion. Its real cool in a tree form. The house has a mow strip in a semi circle about 6 feet from the front walk and the front has a secluded entry.we are planning to do a tummbled stone out off the walk from the arch to the front door. then on the other side of the mow strip we will plant photinia keeping it sheared followed by a mid height azalea and then a lower plant and possibly the new orleans creape myrtle.
I am not sure what we are doing in front of the house itself but its a work in progress. I am thinking it will be a group of different ornamental grasses on the corner of the house where the marron colored norway maple is at the moment. Behind the grass on the southside is a 3 ft wide daylily bed that has been planted for a couple of months so I am looking forward to seeing all my stock - beeding DL's.
Here is a pic of the front after this weekend.
wow did not intend to wright a book
Dave