Guess what I did yesterday.

Thank God for mothers with beautiful landscaping!

Take two, they're small. lol

Oh boy your work is laid out for next spring. Do you have a Green house? Nice haul!!

Viv

Have greenhouse ... will never be able to travel again. :-)

I have DH working on finishing touches. Power has been run but no outlets have been wired yet. Sink has been installed, but the water isn't hooked up yet -- maybe today! Right now it's just being used for storage since I don't have any shade cloth and it's WAY TOO HOT in there as soon as the sun hits it.

My cuttings are currently hiding on the north side of the house where it gets no direct sun. Don't want to scare the @(#* out of them. lol

Look out when seed starting times comes!!!

Thats great! I've been pricing them and wow. I'm thinking my DH can build one, (retired carpenter) for about 1/2 of the cost of the one I want and fit my needs better. I always tend to go overboard. I think its OCD. But if I'm going to carry over plants, and start my own seeds I'm going to have to get one this fall. Clock is ticking.... Will probably have to wait until next season, and just use my delightful garage again.

Viv

Last September we moved from a 1400 sq ft / 3 bedroom house on a postage stamp lot to an 850 sq ft / 2 bedroom trailer with NO garage (ouch) on 4 acres, so any new stuff I wanted to have was going to need a place to be. lol

I got what we still feel was a pretty good deal on my greenhouse, but then we've also put in a good deal of time and spent some money to "customize" it. It currently sits between the trailer and my veggie garden (quite conveniently placed, if you ask me) but sooner or later I want to move it into my (yet to be planted) orchard if there's enough room. I think it will look great nestled in the middle of a dozen fruit trees and surrounded on three sides by flowers. Oh, I have such grandiose plans!

You are living your dreams MzWeazelle. Savor them!

Sounds like Heaven to me, MzWeazelle!

Oh Weaz,

You are one lucky pup! Four acres and a greenhouse. I'm envious. Don't know if I could live without a garage again (did that for years). Not that we can fit a car in there or anything - just need a place for the lawn mower & yard equipment/tools and all of the art/craft/if I just fix this thing up that I found in the alley/ this might come in handy someday/This would make cool yard art if my small garden wasn't full to overflowing sort of junk.

I'm considering taking the roof off of the garage and replacing it with a rigid clear plastic stuff that would allow me to have a greenhouse. However, since I have to clean the garage before that happens and it's been on my list all summer, It'll probably never happen.

So when you were working yesterday gathering material for propagation and you talked to your mother, would you have called your conversation "cutting remarks" :)? Sorry, couldn't help myself.

MCWEAZELLE;
Ummm, lemme guess, you visited that "nursury" just out of town on hwy 3 right next door to that autobody place, just before you get to Dells Farm Supply??

I am gonna have to contract with you till MY greenhouse gets up. :) ;)

HERPST,
GROAN!!!! But a GOOD one!!

Skidivur:
Not that it's a really big thing, but that's MzWeazelle, not McWeazelle. lol

I've been to that nursery, but it was before they started stocking most of their stuff for the year.

No, my mom actually does have beautiful landscaping, and she was more than happy to let me take some cuttings. The two pictures I posted represent an afternoon of judicious snipping and dipping -- we sit and gab a lot, too. :-)

I got 3 each of about 25 different plants: deciduous and evergreen azaleas, roses, a couple of rhodies and a dwarf lilac. I'm sure they won't all survive, but if I can get one of each to grow I'll consider it well worth my time. I hope to go back up there and get cuttings off several more of her rhodies soon.

Earlier in the year I managed to save over 50 Japanese Maple seedlings from various places in her yard and a couple dozen daphne seedlings. I'm doing pretty well with the maples -- still have around 45 growing -- but not quite as well with the daphne. I also potted up 8 or 9 cherry seedlings, but I think they've all caught something and I don't know if I'll come up with anything from those. I'm thinking about raiding the seeds from all three and starting more from scratch.

Herpst:
Don't feel bad about what ever you've got stashed in your garage. When we moved we used a mediumish Uhaul truck and fair size Uhaul trailer. We made two trips and I'd say at least half of the stuff in the second trip came out of our garage. Just imagine how we had to scramble to get things unpacked and under cover for the wettest winter in ages! No garage here, but fortunately there are several small outbuildings that are reasonably rainproof.

KatyMac & mgh:
Hmm ... somedays it's dreams, other days nightmares would be closer to the truth. On those days I just keep thinking -- you don't have a mortgage, you don't have a car payment, and the only people who drive past the house are the people who live on the 8 acres next door. I think I can live with just about anything else on the list of things I don't have!!!

Yep, I can imagine that sometimes it's more like nightmares. LOL Just imagine living in a 750sqft house on that postage stamp size lot.......that's what our property is like. It's also in town....a corner lot that was split into two lots. It's very cozy here. LOL We do have a single car garage though....don't know what we'd do without it!

Oh I know what you mean. I miss my solitude. Even tho I lived on one of the busiest streets in Tacoma. We had no one living close, it was like five acers, but we just had one. The home we have now is packed.. houses all around.. but still nice, and I love my garden here, and have a huge garage more than enough room for cars, flowers, and artsy stuff.
Soon MzC. everything will be the way you want.

Viv

I moved last year from 20 years on acreage near Lake Tahoe, and I was living my dream. Winters got to be too much for me though so now I'm in a smaller home, different lifestyle. But as you say, it's mine and paid for which counts for a lot. And I have the time to putter for the first time in my life. Some days I feel downright sinful just doing just what I darned well want to. No alarm clocks, no deadlines. Dirty dishes? Dust bunnies? Pooh! I'm playing in the garden! Different times, different dreams.

I worked in Olympia for 5 months after we moved here, but I've been unemployed for the last 6 months. Unfortunately I am the sole income for my DH and myself so I'm going to have to find something, and soon!

I enjoy working since it's about my only social outlet, but lately I've been jealous that I don't get to stay home permanently. I'm starting to look at our situation to see if there is any way we can make enough from home to pay the bills you just gotta have cash for, and how we can further reduce our need for cash income. Just what are we willing to give up? Interesting discussions ahead at our house. lol

KatyMac - what area of Lake Tahoe did you live? That is one of my favorite places to visit! I would love to live there, but I don't think I could do the winter thing.
LOL - playing in the garden. I live in mine. My house is for sleeping, indoor plumbing & the refrigerator.
My dh thinks I've gone off the deep end, and he's right! Why would I want to be inside, when I could be outside? :O)

Katye, I lived in Nevada County west of Tahoe on Scott's Flat Lake. Not as much snow as Tahoe but some winters I couldn't see past the berms on the road. Now that would give me cabin fever! My house was on a corner and it was like watching walls going up around me! I used to run out to the snow plow operator with hot cocoa bribes to keep him from piling snow up in my driveway.