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| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Jun 01 2009 : 11:48:07 AM
About a month ago, I bought two cheapie $5.00 rosebushes from a K-Mart store and planted one on each side of the porch steps of the farmhouse. In the process of mowing the grass, the dh came right up to the porch with the tractor and sucked up the bush on the left hand side. So I decided to create two giant rose beds, one on each side of the porch. They are about 4' deep and 17.50 ' wide. It took me two days of digging out grass and weeds to get here. Then I went out and bought $100.00 worth of Knock Out rose bushes and planted them. The dh is going to haul some landscape timbers to go around it. He runs over my plants a lot. Either with the tractor or the weed eater. :( But he sits up and takes notice when it hits him in the wallet! :O
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| Carol Sue |
Posted - Jun 05 2009 : 1:20:50 PM
Oh how I was laughing Janice!!!!! Dan notoriously weed whacks my plants, one of them being the grapevine this year. I have put brick all the way around the flower beds so he knows where the lines are, just have to put it around the grapes now. By the way, all the daylilies came up, moved them to full sun, and they are very happy campers!!!!!! Yippeee!!!!!!
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| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Jun 03 2009 : 11:31:21 AM
I think you have a good plan, Laurianne. ;) Some friends to keep it company. LOL! And I've told David that the tractor is NEVER coming that close to the house again. I'm going to mow that area with a push mower he bought a couple of weeks ago.
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| LauriP |
Posted - Jun 03 2009 : 11:07:40 AM
>>  << Janice -- isn't it a wonder how the plants come back and just seem to take off when we turn our back?? I know now that once the plants decide their happy, then it's all fine --
Course not having Tom mow the grass anymore does help alot!! Ha!!
I'm debating on whether or not to buy some more rose bushes. We have one that's doin' much better since noah trimmed it up this spring. He has it staked by the back deck, so it's much happier. Too many years it was left all alone by the previous owners...too sad. Maybe it just needs some fellow roses to make it really cheery!!
Laurianne |
| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Jun 02 2009 : 11:55:34 AM
I think you should come and visit, Nancy Jo. Then we could just sit in the nice chairs and talk all we want to. Maybe put iced tea in the pitcher. There's always a nice breeze on the porch. I try not to take too many breaks up there, because it's so hard to get back up and go to work again! LOL! I was there all last week and I have another vacation(2 weeks) from June 13-28 and we should have some drywall by the end of June! I won't know how to act! Neighbors? A few here and there. A lot of nice people close by in town, though.
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jun 02 2009 : 09:52:18 AM
Janice,
Wow the house sure does look differnt now!!! You have really come a long way with this HUGE project. Look at it as a good thing that DH ran over your other roses, because now you have a lot more then before. The painted porch chairs look so pretty. Do you have any neighbors near by? Notice how I can change the subject in the middle of nowhere.How often do you get out to the farm? Are you going to sell the place you live in now? Ok see that pepsi and crunch bar have set me off. Good thing you aren't standing here I would talk your ear off.
NANCY JO
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| peachy |
Posted - Jun 02 2009 : 08:53:58 AM
What beautiful new roses! I'm gonna remember this one, seems a big green tractor likes to suck things out of my garden/yard too! If it's not bad enough the goats get out and love to eat everything beautiful and nothing weedy I also have my dh on his tractor!!!
Melissa
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| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Jun 02 2009 : 07:36:53 AM
Laurianne - I understand about the crying thing. I nursed a couple of small Crepe Myrtles along and he ran over one of them at least three times. The poor bush kept trying to come up and he wacked it every time. It was very frustrating. But earlier this spring, I was digging a hole near where it used to be to plant another crepe myrtle, and I saw a tiny little red spike coming out of the ground. By golly, the poor little thing had come back yet again! So I dug it up and potted it and I'm not putting it back in the ground until it can defend itself! :O
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| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Jun 01 2009 : 1:10:34 PM
Thanks, Alee. I'm fertilizing them to help them along. And I put down wet newspaper before I put the mulch down(got that tip from this forum), so I'm hoping the weeds will stay gone. I pulled out a pile of clumpy grass and weeds almost as tall as I am. I pushed it all down the hill, load at a time, in a yard cart and made a big hill for the dh to haul away. ;)
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| LauriP |
Posted - Jun 01 2009 : 1:08:38 PM
>>  <<
Ohhh!! Tom did the exact same thing with an entire row of honeysuckle plants I'd planted all along our driveway when we lived in S.C. -- Honestly I didn't know whether to strangle him, leave him out in the backyard for the night, or just go and have a good ol' cryin' jag...
I finally gave up on the plants..glad to see you've gotten these little things all taken care of!!
Why do men do these things anyway??
Laurianne |
| Alee |
Posted - Jun 01 2009 : 1:05:53 PM
Oh my gosh! "There's only a hole!" Oh my! I like your plan though! And your house is going to look fantastic with those beautiful roses!
Alee
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Jun 01 2009 : 12:14:09 PM
That's so wonderful! I can't believe it! Rooms!!! I love what you've done with the throne..um, I mean potting bench  It was SUCH a good buy and looks perfect there on the porch. Way to conserve that purple paint (hopefully sans clover and grass clippings  )
It truly looks wonderful. I'm so happy for you both!
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| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Jun 01 2009 : 12:10:51 PM
I'm excited too, Jonni. From June 22 - 26, a crew of able bodied drywall people are going to show up to drywall the new addition!!!! Walls! Rooms! I won't know what to do! Can you see the white wooden potting bench I bought at Burlington on the edge of the porch? It's such a 'good thing'. ;) I painted both those chairs last week, too. The purple is from the exploding can.
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'Br.Dave Gardner' |
| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Jun 01 2009 : 12:06:31 PM
Yay!!!! I'm soooo excited about the farmhouse!
Way to show David, Janice...he'll have to work REALLY hard to kill them now!
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| knittingmom |
Posted - Jun 01 2009 : 11:59:42 AM
It's interesting how men put our wonderful plants in the category of weeds and dirt. Well the landscape timbers should stop him.
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| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Jun 01 2009 : 11:58:06 AM
The only thing left was a hole, Marybeth. And he had the nerve to point at the hole and say "But there's only a hole, there's nothing there"! To which I replied: "That's because you and the big orange machine sucked it right out of it's hole and ground it to bits!" GRRRR!
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"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
'Br.Dave Gardner' |
| Marybeth |
Posted - Jun 01 2009 : 11:52:34 AM
Too funny. I am picturing the rose bush getting sucked up in the mower. but good for you for being the ever resourceful farmgirl. MB
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