wha, You are missing the link. I would love to see more pics or your lovely garden and I know that Ric will enjoy seeing the thread. The blue egg is a water feature with a bubbler. Got a laugh about the water snakes. Here it is black snakes they aren't poisonous but you can get a nasty bite if you stick your hand in the wrong place. When I weed around the big rock pile in the back yard or under some of the evergreens I wave a stick around under things first. LOL Holly
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Great job Holly/Ric----like the choice of plants very much.
Holly - what a beautiful job you and Ric have done! Thanks for sharing those photos with us, and welcome to the NE Forum, by the way. Of course, you may have been posting on other threads that I've missed! But it is nice to have you join in and show us your lovely gardens!
Louise
Bill, Just went through you Great Wha thread. Man you have some stones! LOL Love all your work. I want to replace my split rail fence with a brown stone, using as much cut stone as I can lay my hands on. I just haven't convinced Holly yet. I only need to build 60' or so, to start. The rail fence is badly in need of replacement, I figure if I use stone, I'll never do it again. Ric
Thanks Louise, I've enjoyed following a few of the Donniebrook threads, My dad lives in New Port Richey, and I'm trying to make his yard and beds a little more user friendly. He's 81 and still works at Home Depot in the patio, we just talked him into part time last year. LOL My nephew lives with him and helps with the maintenance and yard work. My nephew isn't very handy but dad is, so he supervises most of the work. We usually get down ever year to try and help out. They had a small fire about Mother's Day which turned into a nightmare with the Pasco Co. building inspectors, they finally got to go home the day before Thanksgiving, for which we were all thankful. Ric
Holly, very beautiful! Those impatiens really look great, along with everything else, though you are right, they take center stage. I'll have to check out the wall thread when I have some more time. Just glanced at it now, and looks interesting.
Ric, that fence would look nice with a stone wall, and of course you won't have the maintenance, though I do like the look of the fence, too.
Karen
a stone wall anywhere is a good idea ric
WOW, I just got finished looking at the wall thread. That is some very impressive work. The gardens really are lovely, too. Loved the story about the canoe, I could see Ric doing that. LOL Now I don't feel so silly, We went on a family hike several years ago and I found a couple of large flat rocks that I wanted for the walkway, so I had the boys carry them out for me. Now everytime we talk about taking a hike I get teased. Mom just wants more rocks. I have piles of small rocks from all over, brought back from vacations.
Thank you all for the nice comments on the gardens. Since we retired a couple of years ago we have finally have the time to put all those plans into action and we are having a great time. Holly
Here is another pic from our rockwall, Sedum and Hosta Mouse Ears
OOOOh I get it. HollyAnn is 2 people; Holly and Ric. I thought for a minute I had ODed on caffeine.
Yes Dnut, I do not have multiple personality disorder even though I talk to myself. We are two different entities, and I try to remember to sign all my post to avoid confusion and prevent Holly from be quoted as a source of what sometimes tumbles out of my mouth! LOL Ric
LOL! Too funny, Cousin Nut!
Holly, that sedum and Mouse Ears hosta look great together. Who knew they would make such a great combo.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Karen
curious how old your mouse ears is - i have one about the same size that is only a couple years old seems to be slow growing
Yeah, I have one too, Bill. Very slow grower, it seems. I've had mine going on 2 years now. Not much bigger than Holly's.
Karen
mine is the same size - and in the ground two years as well
I love all this wonderful stone work Bill, Holly & Ric have done. The rocks add so much to the gardens, which are nothing to sneeze at either. Lovely.
I also have a Mouse Ears hosta. It is a mini and will not ever get very large. Cute little sucker and it looks very nice with that sedum.
This was only put in this past year, Holly had ordered some mini hostas to make a living wreath with small leafed ivies and mini hosta. By the time she made the wreath she only had a couple of hostas left and included some impatiens which sort of took over. Maybe she'll have better luck next year. The one she did with stone crops and sedums came out nice. Ric
I've included a shot of the hosta wreath shortly after planting.
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Here's the sedum and stone crop wreath. Ric
Very nice, Ric! I would think that the sedums and stonecrops would definitely fare better being grown that way, as they don't really need a lot of water and can handle being dry. The hostas, though they can handle some dry, I have found they don't like it too dry. I have a bed in the shade that's very dry, and a couple of hostas in there have died. I have on more left in there and I think I'll be moving it before it bites the dust as well.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Karen
Poppin in to say Merry Christmas, hope everyone's day was wonderful. : )
Meridith, thanks! We had a great day.
I'm gonna start a new thread. This one is over 300 posts. BRB
Karen
On second thought, maybe I should wait till the new year and we can start back at #1. I doubt there'll be many posts between now and then.
Karen
NuttyD.....you are quick to catch on about Holly and Ric! I was thinking multiple personality until I examined the differences in sentence structure! LOL!
Nice photo, Holly and Ric!!! Which one is Ric??? HaHaHa.....just trying to get you both used to the warped humor that pervades this Forum!
Seriously, Ric and Holly - sorry to hear about the fire at Ric's Dad's place....so glad he and your nephew got back in the house by the holidays. Your stone wall at your PA place is going to be lovely!
LOL Ric is the one that does the hard work I'm the one that leans on the shovel and says "Can you move that rock a little more to the right" Holly
Yes we are both really glad that Ric's Dad is back in the house. He made several trips down to Fl. this summer trying to sort things out.
For my rock bud. A hobbit house mine shaft. I'm liking the SW ALOT ^_^
Holly - oh, I can relate!!! Case in point....during wha's (Bill's) visit to our farm last summer, I was the one prancing around giving moral support to him and to Hank as Bill primarily walked around with his arms filled with mega stones and his muscles bulging in a flattering way - gulp - and Hank lent a hoisting hand. I, like you, was pointing out where I'd like the prettiful stones placed for a lovely bench.....such hard work!! LOL At least we didn't miss our calling!!!! snonk!!!
I LUV 'snonk' DonnieB! Good one ^_^
LOL, Dahlia! Notice I just couldn't resist lifting your beautifully coined "prettiful"....it is just my favorite word ever!! LOL
Warms the cockles of my heart DonnieB ^_^ I do believe that perchance some besides me speak dahlianut ^_^
Gee, or is it Haw, I use "prettifuL" all the time, 'coarse I use Ya'll all the time. U're right my sentence structure varies from Holly's!!! LOL Ric
dnut i think there are rattlesnakes in the mining shaft - no hobbit would venture in unless they were pursued by orc's
Good one, Bill, coming from a LOTR fan!
Cousin Nut, I love the SW myself. Would like to move back there.
Karen
That was an interesting photo, DNut---never thought about snakes!
LOL, Ric! Y'all come back!
So far I have not stumbled on a snake but I whistle and sing when walking in the desert. Works like a charm for skunks so thought that might work for snakes and scorpions too? Only iffy creature encounter so far was when my golf ball landed on a wolf spider's house. We worked it out.
well i have been busy working on a granite mushroom cap - next time i will make sure the "stem" has a flat top, it will make things a lot easier - this stem is about 3' tall and 4" x 6" wide at the top, problem is it comes to a point in one of the corners and fall off diagonally to the other three sides - so i have been chipping away making a hole in the underside of the mushroom cap that will fit it - i have a 2.5" deep hole sloping up 4" on each side - think triangle hole - has taken about 3 hours to do this - only spend an hour a day on it - i tested it once on xmass and tried again today and got it to sit flat if i wedged a rock underneath the sloping edge - probably need to chip out another inch deeper or more which will put me very close to all the way through - will need to be careful because popping a hole through would really get me upset at this point - may try to flatten the stem top out a bit tomorrow as that would be an easier and safer solution.
picture will be posted when completed - the mushroom cap is perfect - it is covered with lichens & moss and is thicker in the middle and droops down on the sides - have it sitting on an old rug while i chip away at it to protect the lichen and moss.
Sounds really nice I will look forward to seeing the completed mushroom. I was going to ask if you could grind the point down a bit. When we harvested the rocks for the wall many of them had moss and lichen so I watered them every couple of days. Holly
Can't wait to see the mushroom!
This sounds really great Bill. I also will be looking forward to some pics of your creation.
I'm looking forward to seeing the mushroom, Bill! I'm having trouble envisioning the 3' tall stem. Will a lot of it be buried in the ground? What a neat project to keep you out of trouble! LOL