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Thread #126160   Message #2894290
Posted By: Bobert
25-Apr-10 - 08:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gardening 2010
Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
This season's "landscape job from hell" is over... Whew... Right at 100 trees and shrubs...

We had our second tour yesterday morning... We were on our way out so we just left them to their own devices...

Also found sanke today... 6 foot blacksnake in the middle of the road... Usually, I don't mind grabbin' them but he was too big so I found a long branch and pushed him off to safety....

Planting under trees is hard... Trees are hogs... Ya' have to either do raised beds or dig large holes and put lots of pine fines in with the soil when you plant so the roots will get a good start before Meany Tree gets there... Don't get me wrong... I love my trees... But ya' gotta have some level of respect for their wants and needs...

Azaleas in bloom everywhere you look...

Went into the wooods this evening and found a few more "mergals" and also found a nice native azalea in bloom... Pink with fregrance... Cut a small portion offf that had 4 flowers in bloom and 2 getting ready to bloom and brought it home to the P-Vine... She was so excited... The Pink Lady Slippers are all doing just fine...

Pond is about dry... Gonna have to either gets some pigs to tamp the bottom down 'er somethin'???

B~