Re: Hydrangea Madness

So where did the brush pile go?
Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daryl" <pulis@mindspring.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Hydrangea Madness


> Hardly a celebrity. Just a gardener who's made a lot of mistakes and
learned
> from them.
>
> I, too, took out grass and made the areas into high-maintenance perennial
> beds. (People tout perennials as easy-care, because they don't need to be
> replanted spring and fall, but there's still weed control, dividing,
> deadheading...)  I'm changing most of my beds to flowering trees and
shrubs
> and conifers, with the beds well mulched, to help avoid that.
>
> Still, after having to pretty much abandon my gardens for the years that
my
> mom was sick, it's taken a lot to reclaim the space. Our brush pile,
partly
> due to the hurricanes, partly due to chopping wild vegetation, was 40' in
> diameter and over-my-head-high, in some cases 10 or more feet tall.
>
> d
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 9:04 PM
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Hydrangea Madness
>
>
> > Don't be sorry... didn't know we had a celebrity here :)
> >
> > I was getting excited about easy care...
> >
> > Seems I have taken out so much grass and made them into high maintenance
> > beds that I can't keep up with lately. Things got away from me for the
> last
> > couple of years and now I am paying for it.
> >
> > It also doesn't help that my design thoughts have changed (gee, think
this
> > group had something to do with that, I used to be happy with common
> plants!)
> > and I have redone many of them....
> >
> > Donna
>
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