Re: Re: my garden photos

Well Tricia, my place was a damn drug house before I bought it, so
imagine my satisfaction from turning a blight on society into an
environmentally friendly habitat and pretty garden! Hackberries are
considered kind of junk trees too, but guess what - my birdies adore
them. Even if I do have to pull up about 5000 hackberry seedlings a
week.


Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: pdickson
Sent: 5/4/2004 6:44:50 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] my garden photos

> I have some before pictures... looked pretty desolate.  The house was built
> about 25 years ago... so the pine trees were here, some old silver
> Maples...(I know they are trash trees but here you have to make lemonade out
> of lemons)  I had a huge cottonwood, but other than that nothing worth
> keeping.  The previous owners had an above ground pool that after we used it
> a couple of years seemed like the perfect place for a sun garden.  There was
> nothing around the house.   There is still so much more that I would like to
> do but I hate dragging a hose around.  We have a well but the water is so
> hard that we don't think we could keep the sprinklers from plugging up if we
> tried an underground system.  That alone keeps me from trying anything else.
> Tricia
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Melody" <mhobertm@excite.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 12:21 PM
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] my garden photos
> 
> 
> > Tricia: Those are beautiful pictures...what a tremendous amount of work
> > you have done in 7 years...what did you start with? I am now six years
> > into my 40 year plan and don't feel like I have accomplished nearly as
> > much as you have!
> >
> >
> > Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
> >
> > "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
> > --Albert Einstein
> >
> >  --- On Sat 05/01, Tricia < pdickson@sbcglobal.net > wrote:
> > From: Tricia [mailto: pdickson@sbcglobal.net]
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 22:01:27 -0500
> > Subject: [CHAT] my garden photos
> >
> > my garden photos<br>I am new at trying to send pictures. I hope this
> > works. I usually<br>don&#39;t let anyone see my garden unless I can
> > tell them how we have<br>only been here for 7 years and I am working on
> > a 39 year plan!<br><br>So much more to do! It was a cloudy day so I
> > thought the colors were good. <br>Tricia<br>zone 6b<br>western
> > Ok<br>&quot;where it has to be invasive to
> >
> live&quot;<br>http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/pdickson@sbcglobal.net/al
> bum?.tok=phmrwCBB2C.zkcBm&.dir=/1944&.src=ph<br><br>----------------
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