Ric, Came home today with a large stack of granite 12 X 12 tiles. Looks like they were removed from a remodel job either bath or kitchen. Sitting out along the road with a free for the taking sign. I am sure we can use them in some way with the new granite bench project. LOL
Nice pics Holly! I'm sure you mentioned it before but where did you guys go?
Grand Bahama, we are home for a week and a half and then back off to Georgia. We will be dropping off Josh and Courtney for their month long App Trail trek. Since we will be just a 100 miles or so from Atlanta we are going to spend a few days in the city. I have been trying to get down there for several years to see the Aquarium there plus there are so many other wonderful sights in Atlanta.
Atlanta is a gorgeous city. I was just there for a wedding, but was too busy to look around, other that to peer out the window as we were going from one place to another. With luck the azaleas will be in full bloom.
Holly--
Say "Hi!" to Frank Blake--the CEO of Home Depot...
Atlanta is HD's headquarters....and many other big companies...
Glad you are feeling better to be able to do all this traveling...
G.
This is a great time of the year to be visiting Atlanta. I was there in August and felt like I was melting!
Granite tiles LOL yo guys have the best roadside giveaways!!
Atlanta arboretum is very nice.
Trying hard to rethink my veg garden before starting in big planting. Too much shade aarrrrggggghhhh
Sally: maybe chop down a well-placed tree? ;-)
Thanks everyone. I am still packing. I was sore today, so I packed things inside. Tomorrow will be warmer, so hopefully I will finish outside. Have lots to do and limited time to finish. I am looking forward to being done packing and unpacking.
funny Catmint that is what Mark said!! I curse the shade but have been planting nearby woodland plants to make use of it. I really hate that the big shed is in full sun, what a waste.
Move the shed????? Buld a new one?????
Silly--I know....G.
Woodland plants are pretty.
I am *really* tired of my shed's placement. The shade it casts creates a garden spot that gets light only between about 2 and 5 pm. So it's 'shade'--but then there's this bright direct sun for 3 hours in the afternoon. It's been hard to find stuff that grows well there.
What do they put in the water at HD that makes their workers so loving of the company? A woman I work with used to work there and she can't stop saying good things about it.
I have to say that how management and supervisors treat everyone
is pretty high on the list....at least the managers...Supervisors can be iffy...
If the Store manager is nice--it trickles down from there...Ours is absolutely
tops--and very lovable. We all will go into mourning when he is moved to another store.
In my 16 years at the HD--I have never had a manager who gives
me a hug every time he sees me! I KNOW I am on his "keeper" list....
Also--in the HD family--respect for every customer and co-worker is at the top
of the list. It makes for harmony and a feeling of "family"...
Older folks are hired and they tend to add a lot to the "quilt"....
In my HD--we have a core of associates that have been there "forever'---
This, truly, does create a feeling of Family. I consider it mine--as I live alone
and go to work to enjoy the interactions with customers as well as the associates.
And NO!!!!!! We DO NOT get an associate discount!!! Many people think we do.
Never have........Never will. So--that is NOT one of the reasons.
Overall--HD, as a company, is very good to all of us--because without us--
they would not be #1. WE are the faces of Home Depot to every customer--
and we can NEVER EVER forget that...
Proud to work there---Gita
Holly, you are lucky that your husband likes garden rocks!
My friends/movers grumbled about moving my rocks last time. They kept "forgetting" so they were the last things on the moving truck.
I saw some nice flat slate walkway stones while walking winston the pug. They are in a wooded area where someone apparently cast cut dead trees, branches and paving stones. I assume someone was yardening. I refreained from getting them because I didn't want to hear mover grumbling and because I didn't want to feel silly walking up and down the street with a wagon full of rocks. I decided to get them anyway. I am going to need them in the new place. I'll be wheeling htem during Off peak hopurs so the school bus brigade doesn[t watch me. A group of moms and kids stand around chatting at the food of the private road/driveway.
Still packing, but taking an herbal tea break .
GardenQuilts, You are right I am lucky, he loves to garden as well so it makes it really nice for both of us to have a partner to garden with.
Woodland plants are pretty.
I am *really* tired of my shed's placement. The shade it casts creates a garden spot that gets light only between about 2 and 5 pm. So it's 'shade'--but then there's this bright direct sun for 3 hours in the afternoon. It's been hard to find stuff that grows well there.
Cat, I have this problem too. I plant lots of annuals and tropicals that love the heat and sun. Could you make this part of your yard a cutting garden for zinnias and celosias? Salvias love the heat too. My elephant ears were loving life in my west facing garden.
thanks, Muddy and Typ! I had a caladium that did really well there last season, so I'm thinking of putting more caladium there. The pulmonaria is doing well there, and also the winter aconite. I also have a few hostas there which did well. Also a skimmia. So, the plants that are doing well there are ones that are listed as 'shade' plants, but they have to be able to tolerate some direct sun. It's been a lot of trial and error--and numerous dead plants. :-( I planted a foxglove in the sunniest corner, and it was telling to watch--the part of the plant that was in the actual 'shed' area died off, and it sort of 'grew' out towards the area that is not blocked by the shed. So, it's not quite enough light for part sun plants.
Muddy, I'm so glad you mentioned the Lobelia siphilitica. I've been trying to figure out a good placement for this. It sounds like they do like some direct sun?
YAY FOR FREEBIES!!!!
Happy Birthday, Buttoneer!!!!
No more tulips for me. I thought I was in the clear when a few started blooming. Some others were chewed on as they emerged from the ground. When I looked out then window this morning, I asked Jeff where the red tulips were. He went out and saw Bambi prints and stems and leaves eaten. GGRRRRR!!!!! Now I really need to protect the lilies that are emerging. I have vivid memories of hearing and seeing my mom out very early in the morning shooing some Bambis out of the yard. Hehehe
Gita and I did not tell you about our scavenging adventure.
Mark and I had taken the dog into the woods at a park near Gita's, last visit, and I knew there was more slate. Same thing, someone years ago had dumped debris, including pieces of thin slate, like roofing slate maybe? We found the place again and pulled out a grocery bag of pieces. I think Gita liked the chance to go poke in the woods with me, it was fun for both of us! don't know what I'll do with it. I used some for my gnome's new pathway. I'd really like to somehow make birdhouses with slate roofs.
Afternoon sun combined with good moisture might mean a great location. Hydranges seem to like my spot with that situation. Deciduous azalea in a pot lived there this winter happily.
It's great having AADD and being an aging gardener, you can flit around from job to job, and never over exert yourself at any one task. This may sound ineffective to some, but I accomplish more and can work the next day. So far I've: removed many perennial weeds (read digging dock), turned 1/5 of the garden, prepared to go to my FIL's yard to mow and treat for crab grass, burned all last years old growth from the garden in the garden, just as the Mesoamerican Indians did, burned a large pile of limbs and stuff from winter damage. Just on a break now to eat a can of beans "cowboy style" and go back to work. I still would like to "red up" the garage and get the flats cart set up, so I can sow more seed.
My kind of day Ric!
I've flitted all over the yard all weekend, going from pulling deadnettle to making new veg beds, to moving things into the gnome yard, moving old boards, more deadnettle, trimming shrubs, deadnettle, turned compost, potted up summer tropicals, got rid of a section of wire fence, piling things for burning, did I mention pulling deadnettle?
LOL Sally. No more nettle left now? I really need to spend time doing this as well.
We have some deadnettle (or henbit -- I need to confirm), but what we REALLY have tons of is Pennsylvania bittercress (aka Hairy Bittercress - Cardamine hirsute). https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CAPE3# Miserable stuff.
Because Paul was going to come over Friday---asst plans....all gardening, mind you...
and he is bringing me a deciduous Azalea--I had to make room for it....
Hard decision--as it likes sun--and I DO NOT really have an all-day sun spot at all.
Decided on the small round bed that my big pot always sits. it will get decent E. sun.
Demolished the mound of bricks and stones that my BIG POT always sat on
and dug out--and hand-removed--a pile of rotten remnants of the OLD
Birch Tree roots and stems. The all were totally rotten....I knew that!
That was a big job--and, no matter how much I tried using my left hand,
the right hand got too much of a workout....Paying for it dearly today....;o(.
Anyone want some Euphorbia I had to dig/pull out???
Today--I went on a hunt for a couple of BIG, square pots to plant a couple things in..
I did in: Ollie's---Big Lots---BJ Liquidators....NO big, square pots! I need BIG.
May have to settle for what I got.
Still spent a lot of $$$--mostly at Ollies....some at Big Lots too...
Now--I am sitting here--trying to ice my wrist--but cannot do that if I have to type...
Lets call it---"Intermittent icing'.....
I am trying to be good---but it is hard this time of year....
G.
Oh I hate that bittercress with a passion! I'm willing to weed them by hand from the beds but not from the lawn, which I'm fully aware is not going to keep them from coming back next year.
Bittercress is pretty easy to pull up, right? It just multiplies quick. I've seen it every where since Happy made mention of it but I haven't done any weeding yet. :/
Definitely easy to pull up, but hard to see sometimes depending on the angle. Then when you bend to pull one, you see so many more. Thankfully we are seeing far fewer this spring, having been pulling and destroying them for several years now, to the point that sometimes we'd see them in our sleep. Good luck!
I just got done pulling a ton of that out of the front bed.
You all are inspiring me. Next weekend one of my goals is to weed as much purple nettle and bittercress out of my lawn as I can!!
Yes, very easy to pull up.
I just don't want to crawl around the grass on my hands and knees, pulling up bittercress. I probably should, but I'd rather not! :)
Got some much purple deadnettle, and bittercress, and barren strawberry, insane. yeah, I try to clean the lawn near flowerbeds so that they aren't reinfested but...so hard.
I''ve finally committed to memory the difference between purple deadnetle and henbit deadnettle. Purple has Pointed leaves near the flowers, Henbit has rounded leaves like little fat hens near the flowers. and for me Purple is a much larger plant the henbit. I have 100 times more purple than henbit.
I didn't know what it was called, but I have bittercress popping up too. I killed some by spraying white vinegar on it (killing some grass in the process), pulled up some and pulled off just the flower heads on other plants. I'm also letting the grass grow taller than I would in the hopes that any seeds won't germinate.
CatMint, I have Lobelia siphilitica growing in an area that only gets morning sun, and in another that only gets afternoon sun starting at about 2 o'clock. They probably would like more sun, but they bloom well and don't need to be staked. What about trying some ferns in that area?
White vinegar--that's a good idea, Muddy!
It sounds like the Blue Lobelia likes at least a few hours of sun a day! Thanks, Muddy!
Thanks for the offer of seeds, gitagirl. I can't even think about planting until I finish digging and packing. Besides, I don't know my mailing address, yet. The community has the mailboxes grouped together, forgot to ask if they are grouped by address or if we get box/rural route numbers.
I hate the creeping white stuff (dead nettle) and the creeping purple stuff (henbit). I dealt with the white stuff in my old place by covering the area with cardboard and cutting holes for my hostas. . It was in full shade under black walnut trees, but the stuff grew like mad.
My biggest problem here is poison ivy. I got a touch of it on my wrist. The darn stuff hasn't even started to set leaves yet. i must have touched a dead stem. I think I got it while taking off my gardening gloves.
Wonder what the weed of choice will be in the new place?
Just watched Captain Phillllips. Wow , edge of our seats!
Sally, who is Captain Phillip?
Movie about a piracy event, based on true story. Lead actor is Tom Hanks. It is a good one.
