what have you bought so far? part three

LOL. All is good, all is good.

That's it for the stone...for this year. Next year when I do the pond, that will be another order altogether.

Kassia, or any other rosephiles...Has anyone ordered from Chamblees? I didn't realize until I was looking over the order form why they cost so darn much...all the roses are shipped in 1 gal containers, via UPS. The sh/han cost more than the roses did! lol.

This will be my first order from Connells Dahlias, Plant Delights, Rosey Dawn, Chamblees, and my maiden order from Klehms...

mrsj-thank you...I feel like I made a good choice. The other 2 quarries were just odd speaking with...I got the sense that delivering to little ole home maker wasn't were they were directing their business. The 3rd quarry I phoned, they were honest enough to tell me that there is a minimum of 12 pallets, and they usually don't deliver to homeowners unless they were large scaled plans...This quarry was the easiest to talk with, helped out, and was very considerate...

$500 for one pallet of fieldstone...holy crap...I'm going to assume there aren't to many fieldstone walls around where you live?

not frugal - just poor...

a lot of stucco on block walls......

we just had two large boulders delivered and placed yesterday....$150;

"scrap rocks (1-5# each) the guy told my husband we could have off the pile in back....priceless!

my tiny backyard - stucco walls, boulders, etc.....now you see why I love to come home and work in Mom's gardens!!

Looks nice, mrsj. Thom, flagstone is always more expensive than fieldstone. So are other ones such as bluestone, which I have as my front walkway.

Actually, those sound like really good prices that you ultimately got! I'm a stoneaholic, and I think your garden is going to look delicious. You won't know that, because you won't be conscience after June 1, but, really, it will look great!

Here's part of my walkway.

I just reread that, lol...Yes, flagstone is a heck of a lot more. That's what we were, still not sure if we are or not, getting to veneer/cap our front porch when it gets done later on this Spring/Summer.
That is what the man from the quarry asked me, he said, "We specialize in bluestone." I quickly chirped in, I don't care what color it is...I then told him, the color(s) that no one else wanted, I'll take them.

The fieldstone is going in the middle of the yard, it's about 15' or so long, and is there purely for decorative purposes...it's not holding anything up/back, or in...it simply is there. I have 2 conifers planted in front of it, and eventually when I work up the nerve to drop a couple of bucks, a giant Buddha head is going to nestle between the 2 conifers, with the fieldstone wall as a back drop. It's something I wanted to do, and has been about 3 or 4 years in the making. That is a project that will definitely be getting done this year, the wall, not the Buddha head!

I was daydreaming of cobblestone for the front walk area...daydreaming...don't any of you pull your hair out...it's just a dream. lol.

Victor - thank you, but in all honestty - I hate it --- to me it looks like "the bones" of a great yard, but my husband likes everything neat/tidy/structured --- so he has this barren backyard and I have the side yard - that's where I have my raised beds with iris, daylilies, roses, etc......

funny though how he always ends up coming over and sitting in the side yard.....




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mrsj-That is a beautiful area...I'm jealous!

Victor, that is stunning, did you lay down the pieces yourself? And, did you need to cure/seal the bluestone...not sure how it weathers outside.

mrsj-are you "allowed" --lol--to put pots/planters anywhere and everywhere? Encroach slowly at first, before you know it, it'll be yours...lol.

No Thom - I had a mason (almost 80 yrs old at the time) do it. They don't need to be sealed but you can. I keep saying I'm going to do it to give it the wet look, which brings out more of the colors and textures, but I never get around to it! An occasional power wash if it gets too moldy is all the maintenance required.

wellllll....I do have a few pots that have slowly made their way from the side yard to the edge of the back........just so they could go on the empty driplines for the summer you understand.......

Funny line, mrsj! I bet they will encroach and mrj will enjoy them. I find the view very serene.

Thom - you have good dreams! Let's watch as you make each one come true. It really is so exciting to see progress being made.

Victor - I didn't seal our bluestone paths either.

All of you got me back to Rosy Dawn Gardens and I finally placed the order! Hurray!

metopa - me, too. They're so easy to root!

I have to place an order myself. Probably Mischel's too.

Mischel's and Glassworks are next on my list.

Mrs J-your yard looks terrific!

A funny final word on my stones. The mason told me that a few people had him put in bluestone and then had him 'smooth' out the roughness with a grinder!!! Can you believe that?

I can believe it, but i hate to think of it. Rosy Dawns I think I can afford - might head over myself and join the party! x, Carrie

Victor, they should have just bought tile...lol.

mrsj-I think a friend from a garden forum should send you some plants, that are very rare, and need to be in the location that is your other halves...LARGE planters...medium planters, even small planters...lol.

I think I'm going to take a whack at the Daturas...just 2 of them. If they grow, I'll have something to share with everyone at the RU. I pretty much cleaned house last year for the RU.

The Spring/Summer RU of 2010, that's gonna be fun...I should have LOTS to share then!

I wish to announce that i have put a deposit down for a replacement car, and the new hot water heater is being installed tomorrow. xxx, Carrie (a pic of the old one)

I finished with Rosy Dawn and Glassworks House and I'm now headed to the dahlia places and Mischel's.

Wow. How many different coleus?

OK OK Rosy Dawn here I come. x, C

15 at Rosy Dawn
4 at Glasshouse + 2 Thai Caladium
Dahlias from Corralitos (7), 2 from Swan Island and I'll be calling in tomorrow for 3 from Accent Dahlias.

Mischel's is running very long this year so I won't be able to complete it tonight but about 20 so far.

Thom - the new hybridizers forum has been started.

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Excellent - you have bought a new car, Carrie. I am sooo happy for you. :-) Being without wheels is a total drag.

Carrie, did it come with a beeper to avoid fire hydrants? Not as exciting as new plants, but nice to drive in to go get them in, if you have any pennies left. Hot water is good too after a day in the garden.

I am excited to read the hybridizer's forum as I think my DH could really enjoy trying. I assume that some type of plants are far easier than others. I would not have the patience. But he would. He love pollinating his pumpkins.

As to what I have bought to add to my garden, well, what haven't I bought is a more honest question?

I am most excited about the addition of many viburnums, some lilacs, a nice group of climbing roses and a few new varieties of Rosa rugosa plus a some shrub roses, a couple of crape myrtles, a couple of different vitex, and a few other shrubs along with several hundred or more lily bulbs , some groups of canna, caladiums, calla lilies, clethra, clematis and campanula and on and on through the alphabet with a number of perennials, many for my new shade/part shade endless stream area. I have only ordered 3 DL's and no iris, and only one Hosta, so I have showed a tad bit of restraint. Then there are the seeds for mostly veggies, herbs and annuals and a few more perennials. I did expand some of my beds already and I did already dig some holes for the shrubs, so I should be good to go crazy, once the plants begin to arrive. I have only one more order to send to a regular spring vendor for plugs from Green Mountain Transplants and then just my spring nursery crawl to do in May in Vt and NH and western Ma as well as the local growers. I love to support the small growers. No box stores for me. I kill enough on my own without letting them help me with sad plants. Off to prepare more flats to start more seeds. More is the operative word in this post. Me More Bad. But it could be More beautiful than ever this year. Patti

I don't have any but I am going to go wipe all the stores out of Salvia.

Here go to fox news.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269719,00.html

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Does this mean I have to guard my blue & pink salvia from druggies?
One good shot of rock-salt ought to scare em! Thats what the farmers used around here to keep the kids out of their apple orchards back in the old days.

I grow salvia, but didn't know about this one. Just go to DG Plantfile. Good information from gardeners. It is a tropical so it won't be growing wild in my yard nor do I think I will need it for my GH. Not pretty enough. If you want a very complete look, try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_divinorum as for me I worry more about what is in most adults medicine and liquor cabinet than plants that kids can get their hands on and do daily. Can you snort rock-salt or smoke apples? Patti

LOL Not that I know of Patti!

Here is what I picked up at Sam's club the other day. All 4 for $15.28

They certainly will taste better than the berries that you buy in the grocery stores these days, unless local. In fact DH always comments that most store bought berries taste like cardboard. Maybe he should buy some plants and eat the pretty wrappers until he gets a crop. I am not a berry eater. I don't hate them, just don't love them, so I pick and pass them on.

I saw a shrub that was purported to be a non suckering thornless blackberry at a nursery last summer. It was pricey, but now I wished I had bought one for DH. It might have been called Navaho. Anyone grow these type of blackberries? Patti

LOL LOL Patti, yes, hot water after a sweaty, fire-hydrant-free trip to look at the plants I cannot afford. x, Carrie

Patti, the Bl.berry in the box is a thornless one, it's says 'Arapaho'.

Pixie, I will look that one up. The shrub I saw was a good sized erect plant (3' or more). It was at a local nursery so I will check there soon. I am avoiding the temptation of going yet. Can you plant yet with all that snow?

Carrie, if you go to the RU, it will make a grand carriage to tote all the gift plants home that you no doubt will get for your garden. You should start posting a "I am in Hot Water" list of neeeeeeeded plants. You have had a not so nice a new year so far. Patti

Patti, does one ever actually neeeeeeed plants? Michaela can tell you, I have a tiny little plot. In fact one of my articles (theoretically) will be "small, well-behaved plants for the garden with major space constraints". It will obviously have a much catchier title! Now that I am shrewdly negotiating with the car insurance company's money, I feel much more like myself!

And it has been a lovely New Year! I got paid for the first time in umpty years (that's a figure larger than umpteen), DH is fulfilling his lifelong dream, DD#2 is an 8th grade A student, DD#1 is on the schedule to graduate from H.S and is being courted by colleges, and I am young(er than a lot of people)! But thank you, dear, for the thoughtful sentiment. xx, Carrie

I just hit every store in town. All the Salvia is totally wiped out, before I got there. I just went to ebay. It is nothing for a plant to go for 86 bucks. This is insane......

I winter sowed a lot - doesn't have to be a certain type of salvia? xx, Carrie

Salvia divinorum