Re: backdrops
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: backdrops
- From: M* M*
- Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 17:21:05 -0700
Hello, Velma...
Wow, your place sounds great! Since your climate is similar to mine (though
you probably get quite a bit more snow), I'm interested in hearing more
about your plantings. What roses and "other things" do you have? Did you
plant commercial wildflowers mixes or did you make up your own?
I can sure understand the grasshopper problem, though here I've been able
to keep them---barely---at bay by lots of watering. Any time, though, it
could get droughty enough to dry up the creek that I use for irrigation,
I'll be watering like you have, and the hoppers will chomp down everything.
Last year, only about 100 miles from here, they were so bad that they even
ate evergreens.
Myrna, Zone 3, Montana
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Velma wrote:
>
>Backdrops? I lucked out on that one. Upon retiring from crafts two
>years ago I thought it would be lovely to plant wildflowers in patches
>the full 1/2 mile of our pasture which is on one side of our buildings.
>A creek runs through the pasture with lots of trees and some sunny
>spots. The idea was you could get your exercise by walking the length
>of the pasture and enjoy the beautiful flowers. I planted eight
>different plots. My husband mows along and around the patches with a
>tractor mower. When you walk, a couple deer may jump and run.
>Pheasants may fly. I've even seen a fox sunning itself.
>
>But you know, plans don't always work out. Instead of walking it,
>there's always hoeing or planting or watering to do, we drive a golf car
>with the gardening utensils in it. Our two American Eskimo dogs ride in
>the golf cart with me and lay waiting patiently while I'm working.
>
>We've had two years of drought. I've watered with a tractor and 300
>gal. tank behind. The grasshoppers have been horrendous. This is why
>we're going into drip irrigation.
>
>My friends come out and we wander the beds together and relax way out in
>the pasture together and enjoy the scenery. Not bothered by phone or
>anything else. People come for tours and enjoy the flowers in the
>pasture. It's not only wild flowers, decided that that's too limiting.
>There's roses, lilies and lots of other things.
>
>My husband's friend said "this is like a park. This would be a good
>place to be buried!!!"
>
>Velma from Minnesota zone 4
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