RE: I'm considering...

What about using easy perennials with groundcover that will require little
maintence?  You might not have all the blooms but if you do a variety of
leaf shape and color, the result could be interesting.  I have several beds
that I have done that way to avoid lots of maintence...I have had to water
this year as I have added things but I, too, am looking to ways to avoid
much watering in the future and am starting to collect and use things that
are more drought tolerant.

Many bulb/rhizone plants do not like lots of water and you could have
flowering bulbs in spring, summer and fall and they can poke up through
groundcover.  I forget...what's your zone?


> [Original Message]
> From: Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 7/13/2007 1:33:39 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] I'm considering...
>
> I'm considering doing away with my cottage garden. The thought has been
> flitting through my head for a few months now, I have been resolutely
> pushing it away so far. I'm not good with big changes and I have been
> very happy watching things bloom, but I don't know, perhaps the time has
> come. Much of it looks terrible and I have to admit that I can no longer
> keep up with the amount of maintenance it takes, not with us spending so
> much time on the horses now. Plus it sucks up a lot of water and we are
> getting many dire warnings about rationing - although I notice they keep
> issuing permits for new housing tracts. Grrrrr.
> Anyway  there's a lot of pros and cons. I cannot get rid of the
> sycamores, those are three HUGE trees, and they will need water so it's
> not like the area can be a xeriscape. I was thinking about what I would
> miss the most and it's the daffodils, there are hundreds, I can't
> envisage throwing them out. The roses too but not as much, and
> everything else I could mourn for and move on.
> I will probably dither about this for months to come if not years. I
> can't come up with what I could do given that the big trees have to
> stay, and I surely do not want to go back to lawn. Maybe I should see if
> I can find a native landscape designer and get some ideas. Sigh.
>
> Cyndi
>
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