Gretchen, those blue bonnets are beautiful. Wish I could grow them here. Great picture of you too.
I must be crazy...
The top picture was Lanny, my Australian Silky Terrier. I have to give equal billing to Hunter, the Golden, and Cleo who is half Toy Fox Terrier/Blue Heeler. They are all my gardening "buds". I'm off to bed so I can get the rest of it all planted tomorrow and close the GH for the season. I hope you all have a lovely, blessed evening! Gretchen
Thanks Shirley! We try to do pix in them every year, and watch how much we change... LOL!
Great looking gardening buds, Gretchen. I have five of my own.
Gretchen - I think it's beautiful land....and the blue bonnets are beautiful too! Handsome group of buddies you have there. I just have my black lab Bonnie, but once warm weather arrives she watches from the sunroom.......a couple of close calls with rattlers and two neighbors dogs being hit convinced me to keep her out of the garden.
Can't wait to see those brugs grow!
I'm liking your land the more and more I see of it. Those bluebonnets are amazing and you and the dogs look wonderful together.
Thanks all! Lanny and Hunter never let me out of their site, but Cleo is happiest taking a sunbath on the front walk LOL! I have emptied tghe GH this morning and what's left will be planted today. What a relief it will be to have it all done. Now to just keep it all alive this Summer... A wonderful, blessed day to you all!!! Gretchen
Hunter looks like a gray face, or is he premature gray??? Do you happen to know his kennel name??? I'm a Golden breeder...SherryLike
Your driveway looks very very nice. You have to keep us updated how the brugs keep growing and flowering. I like your house and your yard.
Great shots Gretchen and you are just a newly wed!!! You should be frolicking in those blue bonnets with your human honey! But your 4 legged ones are sure cute.
Sherry: We don't know anything much about Hunter. he belonged to an employee of DH's who resided in an apartment. DH got him when he was around two and that was probably 1997, but he can't really remember. I've heard so many different ages for that poor dog, who knows! But he's probably nine or ten...
Thanks Monika, its definitely different!
Kell, you're right. But now I'm just happy to have him alive and doing so well after all he's been through! And thanks on the dogs -- I sure do love them!
Wow that is going to be beautiful when they are all blooming . I love the pics of the blue bonnets too. Pretty dogs. You have a beautiful gardens.
I keep looking at this picture and wondering how I can make my drive look like this. I'm not sure I have the energy though.
Go for it Shirley. If you just did a little each day, you could knock it out in no time. I have just been under the gun with too many projects in the loop, and a DH that wants to get out of town. As soon as I get my automatic watering synchronized and know that those babies are getting adequate water, I'm out of here for a few days!
Thanks, Mystic!
Really Brugie, you can even do part just part of your driveway. It would look so good!
Good Idea!
I know how I can make my driveway look like that too.
I'll have the concrete jack-hammered out and head across the street taking out the curbs and the asphalt on the way, then on through 3 neighboring houses or maybe 4. That'll do it...and I'll have a great view of the next valley over thrown in.
Sounds like a plan.
Happenstance, you are a riot. I'd be dangerous with any power tools. I don't think this is the year for me to start this project, but I might think about it this fall and see what I can come up with.
Wow, Happenstance, you're gonna be busy. LOL
Do you think I went too far?
Here's the before:
ROFLMAO!! TOO funny Happenstance. You need a rezoning permit for your brugs.
Great idea if you can get away with it. LOL!!
Go for it Candy! LOL
Gretchen, your drive will be beautiful later and the rest of the many plantings also. Your house looks great to me. Loved the pix of you and your dogs and the bluebonnets.
Happenstance you do good with your camera!!! Donna
Happenstance, I just fell out of my chair and I'm on the floor shaking in laughter. You are so funny.
This message was edited Apr 18, 2004 6:15 PM
Donna - thank you! Candy: you are a riot!
Any chance of a picture update on your driveway Gretchen? I can't wait to see how they've grown.
Sure. Don't know if you can tell much from the picture, but this was this morning:
Here's from the other direction:
Thanks! Just can't wait ot see them all grown and in bloom.
So beautiful....................
You and me both! Its hard to believe they've only been in the ground for three weeks. Since then, all the cuttings (not seedlings) have buds and or blooms. I sure hope these seedlings bloom this season :)
Gretchen, what do you have planted between the brugs? It all looks just great.
Gretchen...I can just imagine it all in bloom! It is going to be just Beautiful!!!
How many do you have planted in your driveway and how far apart is the spacing?
Oh shoot Picturelady, I'm not sure how many -- maybe 25 or so -- they are 36 inches apart. I have planted 60+ in multiple beds, hopefully in areas appropriate to their needs. With seedlings though, its hard to tell.
Brugie: Thank you! I have Lantana 'New Gold' planted in between each brug, and its also planted in between my salvias along the front porch. I hope it helps with continuity. They get pretty large and are loaded with sunshine-yellow blooms all summer and fall. Eventually they will form a thick carpet beneath the brugs. Along the outer edge are dwarf cosmos, and then some other annuals interspersed for color. I can't wait to see it all in a month or so, when all the annuals are in bloom. Under the tree at the far corner of the bed are lilies, salvias, ees, caladiums, several pink brug cultivars and the variegata, plus some odds and ends.
That should look really sharp. I had "New Gold" lantana last year and I was NOT disappointed with it. Quite the bloomer, even in shade.
Does it not come back for you? Its a hardy perennial here.
No such luck. I was going to take some cuttings last fall and forgot. I've found that they can be ordered as plugs very reasonable if you need a bunch of them. That is what I'll do from now on.
That's interesting! They are pretty cheap here - $1.50 for a 4" well established plant, but they are really easy to start as tip cuttings in the Spring. I just cut off a piece that has meristematic tissue and stick it in the ground. As long as they don't dry out, they root in a few days.
Edited to add -- don't know how they would ship, but I'll be happy to send you cuttings this fall - just let me know :)
This message was edited May 7, 2004 8:59 PM
I started a lot of them last year from purchased plants from our local greenhouse (different varieties). They are $2 here and I needed a lot for the Roundup, so I bought a flat of 105 plugs for 28 dollars (Dallas Red). I more than got my money's worth from that deal.
Gretchen, it's going to be so pretty when all of it blooms. We'll want lots of pictures. LOL