Accessible Gardening: Practical Matters for Physically Challenged Gardeners #10, 1 by seacanepain

seacanepain wrote:
Carrie, I don't have any special preference for yellow. but I don't mind it. Our house and barn are painted a sort of harvest yellow. (If I had to choose a favorite bloom color, it would be wine reds/burgundy.) It's pink taking over MY garden space I have trouble with. The ladies have shown restraint in keeping pink out of the Old Soldiers Garden so far.
Sheri, this is probably a dumb question considering your locale, but do you have Carolina jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirrns)?
It’s been a bad morning. I’m thinking a 12-foot fence completely surrounding the property might be my next big investment project. Then, I could let the dogs have the run of the place. Some scum stole all my ‘Friar’ plums. Better yet, maybe I’ll let Kay surround the property with her wicked ‘Flying Dragon’ trifoliate oranges. That would be cheaper, and their vicious thorns make them more effective than any manufactured fence. The deer couldn’t have reached all the plums and wildlife just doesn’t do things so neatly and efficiently.
Kay’s in a bad mood, too. The police told her she couldn’t burn the broken limbs and debris from the last few days of storms. The entire state is under a burn ban. Uh-h-h, I don’t know about other parts of the state, but there are mud puddles and standing water everywhere you look here and the humidity is at 60%. There is virtually no chance of a fire getting out of control. Kay’s muttering about “arrogant, simple-minded, control freaks. I definitely need to get her away for awhile. Building and burning brush piles and other types of controlled burns have always been part of Creek land management because a lot of dry debris makes an out-of-control fire more of a possibility. I suspect the holiday has more to do with it than anything. The fire marshal is being overzealous because it is firework season.
I like the look of the maypop vines at the moment, when there are flowers and fruit at the same time.