Re: Re: Happy Birthday
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  • Subject: Re: Re: Happy Birthday
  • From: T* G* <3*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 18:45:00 -0700
I can relate!  I also like everything growing together.  Going to be harder
now with the water restrictions.  But when I rented my place out several
years ago the rental agency assured me they would get a gardener in to
clean up the gardens bc they were so "overgrown".  LOL.  I have trimmed
everything before they came and the garden looked perfect in my eyes : )
Theresa


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:38 AM, <5bef58771@rewrite.hort.net> wrote:

> It's good to hear about another gardener who doesn't like bare space.
> My front bed is a solid mass of foliage, and I love it that way.  From
> season
> to season different things are blooming, but there is always a cover of
> different foliage patterns and textures.  Mainly several kinds of  hardy
> geranium, which bloom beautifully in the spring, several colors of
> epimedium,
> also spring blooming, Pulmonairas, several ferns, including several  shades
> of the Japanese painted fern, a low=-growing Spirea rosea that has  just
> finished its bloom, three different Hellebores which were grand in early
> spring and make nice green accents now, several mounds of Ruta  graveolens
> which I mainly grow for the beautiful foliage, but which are making a
>  brave
> stand of bright yellow flowers right now. and various other bits and pieces
>  of
> stuff.  You get the idea.  It all flows together and I love it  that way
>
> But:  My daughter-in-law who is a licensed petroleum engineer and  makes
> a six-figure salary for working four days a week so she can take long
> weekends
> to go skiing or whatever, looked at my garden, shook her head and  said
> "Gee, you sure need some help to get this mess straightened out."
>
> I guess it's just another case of beauty being in the eye of the  beholder.
>
> I will add that I'm glad she can't see the prize in my garden this week -
>  a
> spectacular Joe-Pye Weed bush about six feet tall and with many  stems,
> full of bees and butterflies.  She'd say it's a weed and get rid of  it;
>
> Auralie
>
>
> In a message dated 8/7/2014 1:00:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> 1f73664e1@rewrite.hort.net writes:
>
> From:  "Judy Browning" <59a63b9e1@rewrite.hort.net>
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 3:50:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re:  Happy Birthday
>
> I planted a mix of evergreen and deciduous where I  wanted trees. There
> were
> 13 walnuts in the back yard in 1976. We've  removed all but 3. The clump
> birches I planted died but the seedlings have  grown up nearby. The tallrr
> trees are underplanted with dogwoods nest  spruce cottoneaster phlox
> candytuft hosta and aquilegia. Everything is  close and grown together. In
> the sunny beds iris daylilies roses etc all  fight for sun. I keep them out
> of a few areas so my creeping thyme can  grow. On the front walk the mauve
> thyme has crept onto the concrete walk  since the poppies and daylilies
> overshadow their roots. Not much bare  space.
>
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