Tsk, tsk, Terri. Sylvia is not going like the fact you don't have any hostas :0) shade or no shade
I was looking through some old pictures today and thought of another garden you'll need to visit, Val.
Mrs.Lee's Garden, outside of Gilmer, is open a few weeks during Daffodil season. I don't remember the exact size. It's a couple of miles of trails with nothing but daffodils. Very cherry!
No next time , Carri , four times is enough .Like pets , when this one goes , no more pets .
Tired of cooking , picking up , laundry , shutting cabinet doors , washing dishes , hollering , "Clean your sink and toilet " , cleaning the shower ,doing all the yard work ,hauling hoarder junk to the dump,. and putting up with a 45 year old step daughter that thinks it's all about her and her kids . His boys are treasures .
Shut up Sally , the paycheck is very good . LOL
It really isn't that bad , but why is it a man retires and a woman never does ?
Wow, I enjoy my stepchildren now, but it was a long time coming. I wasn't implying there should be a next time, that's totally up to you, of course.
Didn't even think that, Carrie . A lot of us on here could start a whole 100 page thread about the past . LOL
Thanks Cocoa the picture of the Daffodils is definately cheery.
I thought daffodils only bloomed in the early spring . That shows how much I know about them . So pretty .
Never had any , but I just love them .
Digger, they are easy to grow. I got a box almost full of them in the outside fridge. I bought them last fall, had surgery and never got around to planting them. Want some? Dmail me a address. They are yellow.
Oh, but I used to have hosta! Old ones that came with the house (built in 1917) and new ones from the fancy, yuppie nursery up the road!
I have, but I'm not doing hosta's now as I have NO shade at this point. Should be about five more years and some of the trees we've planted will throw enough shade to start thinking of hostas, etc. Right now I'm just trying to get the roses and veg garden established and then keep the weeds out LOL!
I hear you, my shade is disappearing! We counted thirty dead trees we need to take down and a few near the house are showing signs of hypoxylon canker. So far we have taken down two.lol At this rate we'll be done in fifteen years. I need to get some saplings in and stop pulling all the oak seedlings or I'll have no trees left.
Get those HYBRID POPLARS, they grow 20 feet in two years and they are dirt cheap. I suggest potting them up for about a year though. You have to order them online, they dont sell them around here.
www.eburgess.com
www.excitinggardens.com
After your real trees grow you can chop them down for firewood. :)
YES hybrid poplars DO grow fast BUT THEY ARE NOT WORTH
YOUR TIME MONEY OR EFFORT !
tHEY ARE SUPER TRASHY !
DONT LIVE LONG, ARE BTITTLE and usually are not a nice shape.
I'll take chinaberry over poplar anytime !
Val,sorry your thread has been
hijacked so badly .. any news
about the job ?
The Hybrids are better. sorry Val, I am through. :)
No problem on the Hijacking. He received the job offer yesterday and he is close to accepting. Yay!!!
☺! Good for you all.
That is wonderful news, Val! Wishing you and your family a smooth transition!
Sylia, thank you so much! I think the hybrids will work great! I did some research on them last night and looks like they are very easy from cuttings, too. I'm going to get some cuttings this winter. The west side of my house is turning into a sweat box!
Thanks Baja, I'm aware of the unsavory Lombardy Poplar. However, the hybrids really do seem different and chinaberries are invasive in my part of Texas...Of course, the drought had little effect on my invasives.lol
My neighbor across the back fence in Texas has a china berry he refuses to get rid of . I pull and dig up seedlings each fall when we get there to spend the winter . I 'm strongly considering ringing that tree if I catch him gone .I hope the roots get into his septic system .
The poplar I was referring to is the yellow poplar ,known locally by some as tulip poplar . Beautiful but a very soft ,week tree that is native on the east coast .
Ash is another to stay away from. After several years when they are too big to cut easy , the big limbs start splitting and dropping . Whole neighborhoods north of Austin , in Round Rock planted with them when developed
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That's how invasives get to be that way. Droughts are supposed to affect everybody equally--invasives have an unfair advantage, somehow, and they survive and out-compete the natives.
Hope the neighbor doesn't discover mimosa , or black gum
Wellll, Val !
whars the latest ?
Will you be coming to
a round up this fall in TX ?
(will be starting a new thread on
hybrid poplars ....
Did he take the job yet ?
Yes, he accepted the job. He is finalizing the details. He will go out to Texas first. My youngest daughter is finishing her last year of high school so we will have a staggered transition, but i can't wait. I woke up the other morning and was dreaming of living in a house with much more greenery around me than here in Phx, AZ. It made me smile. I know that comes with the humidity , but that is what keeps the plant from frying like they do here. I am looking forward to growing new things, meeting new people and slowing down a bit. Plus I know I have new friend out there. :-)
Congratulations!
There will be a lot to see in NE Texas
That's good news.When you get here maybe we can have lunch.
Gabriell, Thanks! I am looking forward to it. I intend to spend as much time there over the next 10 months as possible (that is when my daughter graduates). We have lots of friends in Houston, but I am looking forward to having someone closer by. My Husband leaves here on August 17th :-( and my daughter starts her senior year Aug 8. My oldest daughter is marrying her fiancée who just joined the Navy, in January and moving to Florida, so we will be closer to them as well.
LOL. I feel like I am writing the next chapter to days of my lives or something. Anyways, I already feel welcome there. I love the southern hospitality.
OK Who is going to plan a Fall Swap out this way? I would love to go to Hempstead, but its more than 200 miles away. I even have a few newbies to invite.
Just wanted to update everyone. My husband moved to Tyler last Friday and is on his fourth day at work. I can't wait to go visit him and see it for myself.
Come on ,,,,,Come on !
could you try to come during a roundup ?
Wonderful!!!
Congratulations! I went through the move to Texas much in the same way as you--husband moved first, then I finished up with rehab of our old house and sold it, then moved too! Our younger son did not want to leave school at first, but once he went down to visit a few time and made friends he decided it wasn't that important and he moved and graduated down here......Stressful but fun all in one! Best of luck!
Thanks terri. My first visit with my daughter will be in October. My husband sends me lots of pictures and he likes the guys he works with. BTW, they told him about a magazoine called guns and gardening. I had to laugh when I thought about who might be the target audience. I have subscribed to birds & blooms, but just because I like the birds and flowers.
Guns & Garden is out of South Carolina. http://gardenandgun.com/ The magazines I've seen don't have very impressive gardening articles.
IMO, http://www.texasgardener.com/currentissue/index.html is the most informative and is able to cover all the diverse plants and gardening areas of this large state.
Hoping the weather will be nice and you will enjoy your trip in October.... Welcome to Texas!
Thanks Podster. I ordered the magazine. Can't wait for my first issue.
