On another thread where we are recycling and decluttering someone took a bunch of miniblinds, cut them up, and used the shorter lengths to use to label plants. Can you put lots of markers around these things and find them later?

I have iris and daffodils to move, but it's the wrong time of year. The trick is finding them later when it is the right time of year. With some I may move them anyway because otherwise I'll forget and mow the area flat and lose them again till next spring. I'm not expert in all of this transplanting, but I don't have a lot of high-dollar things, except for the trees, and I try not to move those if I can avoid it.

I went over to that other thread and picked up the source code for those links:

The house I'm in now is one I passed by many times as I looked in this neighborhood. It was the ugliest house on the block, due to bad color selection in the paint job and absolutely no landscaping to speak of. A classic rent house. I finally walked inside to rule it out and discovered fine woodwork throughout that blew me away. It was neglected, not damaged, a good one to putter in after some basic upgrades. I did a lot of work, but have come up with a great house.

Before and After and different "After" angle. I need to mow the grass. My retired next door neighbor is always a couple of days ahead of me. And I need to get more Bermuda out of some of the beds. You know how it is when you have your own patch of dirt to work on. I think the house could be a shack if I could putter in the garden. I know we share the same disease. I'm aiming at turning one of those segments of the front into the kind of planting you have in your current front yard.

The difference with my garden and what the rest of you are talking about is that I'm simply taking advantage of nature's springtime surge with common and easy to move plants. I haven't had the time, money, or at times, discipline (you have to get up really early here to garden in the high summer if you can't stand the heat) to do anything fancy, and I can't even keep up with the beds I plant. But a couple of times a year my laisee faire approach and Mother Nature's exuberance are in perfect alignment and the iris are taller than the weeds. That's my trick. Take photos when the yard looks good and use those shots all year round.

SRS