great pics everyone!! I am so impressed!
ngam - I love your path! Do you have more shots of your yard?
Before and After
Thankyou Anita. More pics here: http://ngam.winkflash.com/ click on monthly garden bed album, shows how things have changed since early spring.
OK Whats growing in the path in "monthly pics" # 64
I have a thread, need help with bluestone walk gaps
so far three people have viewed it but no one has any suggestions.
Creeping golden thyme. Maybe 'Archers Gold' but not sure of cultivar except it had golden in the name. Easy to grow has little purple/lav flowers . Can be sheared a bit to bring back new vigor in summer if needed. Spreads well but can be controlled easily. One year it had a heart shape that I helped along a little. Gets about 3-4 inches high.
Would it withstand being in a crack in a stone walkway?
Gets hose dragged and maybe stepped on.
I answered your thread with mother of thyme. It is a good short one that can take abuse. This one will too but it is taller and might be better along the edges of your walkway. If there is a part sun area, maybe irish moss would work well too.
ThanksPatti, I did get you answer on my thread.
I will add these two to next years plant purchases.Plant bank is tapped out for 2008.
Cat has to have dental surgery, I KNOW but he has a tooth that crumbled and needs it taken out. He is in pain and loosing weight,hurts to eat.
I don't think I'm so much electronically challenged so much as I get frustrated REAL FAST. I was trained on a Mac, and the PC that I have to use now gives me no end of misery. It's just not as intuitive.
I hate wasting time figuring out a computer when I could be gardening (or napping!)
AMAZING! I enjoyed everyone's pictures. You have inspired me to go out and buy mulch. I have REALLY NEEDED it but just couldnt' afford it. Its time to part with the money I guess! ~ Pat
Sherrie your new garden area is going to be fantastic.
There are times I wish I had a DH.
I feel the way you do about mulch and the gardens at my old house suffered for not using it.
DD insists on it for the new house and we did a great job with the cartload we got but it wasn't enough. It has helped cut down on the watering and weeds, since I'm the one who hauls the hose I am greatfull.
We need another cartfull but she and SIL will go and get the stuff from the town.
Although I have had two "DH"s, I have always had to either do it myself or hire some teenage help. My Ex just wasn't into helping (with anything, hence EX, LOL) and when I remarried my Sweetie told me that gardening is not his thing AND its really not a good thing for him to do with certain disabilities, it is HUGE fall hazard for him. He supports my love of gardening and never begrudges me the expense and encourages me to hire any help I need. Having a DH that would work with me on the garden would be fun but I sure would not trade the one I have for ANYTHING! He is an Angel.
You are absolutly right ,his gift to you is the support he gives you.There aren't many men who can do that.He sounds like a Keeper.
psychW, I just got rid of DH #1. Not only would he not help, he didn't want me gardening and didn't want to spend 10 cents on the outside! Bye, bye!!!!
Byebye & good riddance Jax!
Yes, my Sweetie is such a Keeper. I am so grateful we have found each other. We have been married just 2 years this August and I truly had no idea that marriage could be sooooo good!
Does being married to the same guy twice count as once? Or just it count as just stupidity? I say 'stupidity' because the second time was worst than the first time.
In keeping with this thread, that would count as 'Before is After'.
LOL!
I have all three.
You know, come to think of it, I ONLY know one woman who married the same guy TWICE and it worked out. Considering how many woman I know that THOUGHT twice was a charm... that ain't good odds!!!
LOL - before is after! LOL
Interesting side-trip. I would have thought those who marry the same person twice would have pretty good odds. I mean, there must really be something there between them for them to go back to the same person, no?? Especially when human nature tends to think new is better...
Misery loves company...
I think in our case, Candyce just has a HUGE heart!!!!
What's in my heart makes up for what's NOT in my head. Sometimes ... 'It's the devil you know' ... and that's what makes marrying the same guy twice a bit easier.
Or perhaps I should have said that it's the devil you THOUGHT you knew!!
Well, I was a trophy wife...
As it turned out, it wasn't 1st place.
I caught mine in two affairs that I knew about.The second one was a woman with power and money 15 years my senior I was in my late twenties at the time. I let him go because I was tired of His routine dateing and I knew the last one with me woulnt be his last.
He was a bonefide Sociopath and a patholigical liar so I was well rid of him. He did eventually remarry three more times.
Glad I'm free and independent, not much money but atleast I don't have to watch "my twelveo'clock" day and night.
Here is my Before & After showing super early, super destructive, freak snowstorm October 2006, Friday the 13th (2+ feet of snow in a couple hours) / the pond area 8 days after / the pond area this year.
Nice recovery
Ge, Thanks! Power co. murdered the twin of the old oak you see in the before/after picture that frightful week.
:-(
Used to be all shade. Now it's all sunshine.
We had an ICE storm 13 years ago. I believe you must remember it.
Rochester lost 1/3 of all it's trees. The mulched piles made mountains up to parkinglot light poles in nearly all the major Malls.
We were without power for 10 days.Durand Eastman Park rare trees were nearly all cut down, Oak Hill Country Club's 250 year old oak trees were either lost or severly damaged.
It was a true loss.
That makes my heart ache to just read about it! I remember how I cried when I cut down our Ash tree. We were unable to save it from Red-headed Ash Borer.
Wind ; Weather ; Insects ; Mother Nature ; all I can forgive .... an ignorant power line worker, I cannot.
:-(
So, I do my best to plant dozens and dozens :-) and dozens ....... I get a lot of them every year from the national arbor day foundation. who I just learned pays its CEO more than any other not for profit .... hmmmmmm
He must be one H--- of an exec.
