Bulbs: Lily Lovers Look here!, 1 by cici77

cici77 wrote:
hello everyone..and happy new year!!!! ron ur lilies are lovely... i can almost smell them from here...lol ..(: lilyfan sorry i havent written back either... i have been sooo busy ... on Christmas day we had one heck of a storm.. wind was blowing from all directions... when we got home Christmas night my pepper tree was blown straight over... it wasnt damaged thankfully, prob because its still young. but i about died when i saw that beautiful tree blown over.. hubby had to hook a chain to it and hold it up with his truck till the next morning... but thats all fixed now... and i put those lilies in the ground several days ago.. a couple of my sisters bought me some garden decor for Christmas and i had noticed while placing some of it around that two of my daffodils bloomed!!! (: the ones i planted around two of my rose bushes to keep the dreaded ever eating gophers away from the last two out of six that i had. they smell so sweet (the daffs that is) but the "rose/gopher" bed was full of weeds... i let it go when the gophers ate all my roses...so all because of these two daffodil flowers blooming i went out there and weeded the entire thing.. i am not sure of the size ( i havent measured it) but it is rather large.. well after breaking my back weeding it, the bed needed definition.. so i took a bunch of thinner long logs and trimed around the bed.. that really made it look like it was suppose to be a flowerbed.. then i tilled it all up and planted 3 new rose bushes since the gophers have stayed away from my roses with the daffodils around it, moved my everblooming gardenia (that hasnt bloomed for me due to too much shade) and i kept thinking, where can i put these lilies in here.. so i went to my hubbys scap wood pile and found some concrete form boards he had used that he had pre-cut, i screwed those together and put it in the bed..planted the lilies in that.. i have to paint the raised bed ( i know i should have done it before i planted the lilies, but i was too impatient) i think i may do some woodburning on it and then stain it in a light brown stain.. i think it will look better stained to match the wood border of the flower bed..i'll put a pic below , but mind u it is a bed in progress!!!! (:
did everyone get what they wanted from santa this year??? i asked my hubby for a 14" chainsaw so i can trim these trees without hurting my back using my jig (it kills my neck) and i also wanted a couple router bits so i can make decorative edges on some of my raised beds and woodburt signs... anyway he bought me a whole set of 30.. with a dovetail bit and all these neat edge bits... i am really excited , i cant wait to try it out.. (:
ok here is the pic of the bed as it sits now... dont mind the wood pile behind it and the leach tanks and pipes.. those are for our house and will be outta there hopefully today!!!! (:
chrissy