I just so love taking the tour though everyones projects in their gardens.
I love working and creating in my gardens, but it is so refreshing to see what others are doing in their.
Just beautiful everyone.
Janet
Spring Projects - Show Us Yours!
Wow, You did a great job Janet. Looks like you loved doing it too!
thanks, and yes, it is a great stress reliever.
here is to the left of the front door. Still a work in progress going on behind the flower bed. I have finally decided to make it a brick patio, around the rose of sharon's.
Janet
Hi Janet, did you get up to Bluestone this year? Your new garden looks really great.
Stormy, you have been really a hard working gardening girl. The mums that made it this winter have showed you they are your tough ones, I'd take cuttings and root them for more plants. You can pinch back mums to July 4th (I know you knew that). I have some mums that have made it year after year and some that just last one season, even though they are hardy in my zone.
I do think I've heard mums don't like too much winter moisture, hence the neglect-thrive effect...
Janet--very nice. I was tempted to take your 'clean slate' picture and study while to guees what one might do. So many options. I like the patio idea. A place for a chair to gaze on your results.
stromyla- darius told me once the remedy for road salt--I think its gypsum. (A response to my sidewalk salt article) If you get your sod down, that might help it survive. I did a fair amount of reserach but only one place mentioned the gypsum, still I'm sure darius knows what she's talking about, just that articles about salt and harming your grass, almost never named a remedy.
I am very slowly getting my bathtub done. Potted up a few water plants for it but haven't dug up the grass and put in the flower bed yet. Actually I was thinking I would dig up the rest of the small forsythias today. I found homes for all the ones I had dug up and think I will put these out along the road with a free sign on them.
I'd take your 'free sign' and leave the forsythias--sorry I am again looking at my annual chore of trying to keep them within bounds along the sde of my yard. Every year I swear I'll tackle them AS SOON as they drop blooms. Every year something happens and before I know it they put out six feet of new stems and the jobs quadruples.
ladygardener:
funny you should ask about Bluestone, as I'm headed up there tomorrow as their reduction sale starts tomorrow. I'm picking up plants for my garden club. I would so love to get some more plants but last Friday my DH was laid off from his work. So we are in a holding pattern trying to figure out what is going to happen. Sad thing is, at our age jobs in this area are very scarce and men half his age aren't finding jobs. So in the long run we might be moving and then I'll have to say goodbye to all my beautiful plants.
I'm taking my camera and I'll post on a new thread tomorrow the pictures of the sale. I've got a dr's appointment in the morning so I won't be able to be there when they open the gates, so when I do get there I sure hope I can locate a cart that has 4 wheels. I'm thinking about taking a wagon with me as a back up.LOL
Janet
Janet, you did a great job on your landscaping. I'm so sorry to hear about your husband's job. I know you must be worried sick. I hope he finds a new job soon and you don't have to move.
Looking good Stormy.
That strip at my house is on my to do list, I want to plant red carpet sedum along the entire thing.
Sorry to hear the news about your DH's job, Janet. Every where the economy is effected, my area is hit hard too, lots of job losses. I hope things turn around for you soon.
Today would have been my day to go to Bluestone, I go the day before the sale and they usually give me a good discount anyways. No crowds. I have so many plants to get into the ground from what I grew in my basement and from the swap that going to Bluestone would be crazy. I also have a gift cert. for there, but I think I'll use that for a spring bulb order. Have to work tomarrow, maybe next year.
Jen, I like your idea about the sedum, I wonder it it would hold up to road salt, seems like a tough little plant to me and it spreads too.
Had to do a search, http://perrysperennials.info/articles/saltherb.html
Road salt tolerant plants
On the despcription Bluestone gives it says it's salt tolerant, I have an article somewhere on planting that strip. I have to go look. Hubby will let me rip out the grass there but it has to be with something low and year round color so I thought that 'red carpet' fit the bill.
I don't know if these are able to handle salt, but it would be worth a look into.
Janet
WOW, Stormy you go girl! LOL Makes my back hurt just thinking about all that digging! I'm sure you'll find more and more people slowing down to see what you've done instead of just whizzing by, you're creating a feast for their eyes :)
Janet, what an incredible difference after ONLY one year - it's just beautiful! Giving me ideas for my daughter's new landscape :)
I didn't realize how long this thread was getting so I've started a new thread for Summer Projects: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1001085/ I'll try to check in a few times while I'm in Maine to see what you're all working on so keep posting your projects! As soon as I get back to Virginia I'll show you what we were able to accomplish while I was there :)
You guys have boundless energy! I'm still sticking to my hillside shade garden and vegetable garden projects, but have slacked off this week. As I'm leaving work I make a mental list of all the things I want to do when I get home, actually get started, but soon find myself napping in the hammock or on the front porch watching the thunder storms roll in. Yesterday, traffic was so bad because of the shooting at the Holocaust Museum, and I ended up going around the beltway instead of thru DC. About halfway home, I realized that I was close to the Merrifield Garden Center in Merrifield and just HAD to stop - who wants to sit in traffic anyway!!! I was on the lookout for aruncus (goatsbeard) after seeing one of stormy's photos on another thread and more Bobex deer repellant. I found them and more - anemone, toad lillies, and some unusual plant called astrantia 'venice'. A few days ago, I moved a heavy concrete angel statue (with the help of a couple of strong neighbor fellows) into the next section of the hillside shade garden that I'll be working on. I optimistically tried to move it myself with a hand cart, but couldn't budge it (I guess it is a couple hundred lbs). Now I need to bring in more dirt and continue planting... terri
Terry, you will love the Aruncus. It's definitely up there in the top of my shade garden favorites. Now about that angel, hope it finds it's way over to the garden objects thread. Have to keep it going until RCN comes back with BOOTY! She may be shopping as we speak. Have you ever used the Shotgun Deer & Rabbit repellent?