Re: wedding update
- Subject: Re: wedding update
- From: R* S* M*
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 18:56:13 -0400
Nancy, What a hoot! It was really funny to read your Murphy's legal
ramblings, even though I send deep sympathy your way! All best luck in the
next 2 weeks!
--Jean Moore
Z7, Eastern Shore, MD
At 11:00 PM 5/27/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Well folks, here I am, less than 2 weeks and counting...
>
>I can report that Murphy's Law is still in effect here. (I will be writing
>a letter to Park Seed--after the wedding--to express some displeasure). I
>planted a lot of annuals in the beds and in pots, to fill in around the
>perennials, and in the spot reserved for a water garden. I had really poor
>germination on several things. Zinnias, of course, grew well. I ordered
>seeds for coral and ivory, to coordinate with the wedding colors. They have
>bloomed now, and guess what!?!? They're all red! If the coral calla lilies
>bloom, it will be hideous!
>
>Then, there's the cat. We are having a running argument about whether that
>nice fluffy compost I painstakingly carted down the hill is for a flower bed
>or a litter box. I think I'm winning, but I'm not sure. He hasn't dug in
>it for a week or so. I built him a sandbox out behind our shed (which he
>has yet to use). And the flower bed is...interesting. I have plant stakes
>here and there through the bed. And a cute little network of fishing line
>strung between them (clotheslines for the aphids). Then, here and there are
>lovely little black seed flats )the kind with the open grid bottom) turned
>upside down where there is some bare earth exposed. And the whole thing is
>faintly aromatic of cat/dog repellent granules. Heck, if I'd known the
>damned zinnias were going to be RED, I wouldn't have replanted them every
>time he dug them up!! Maybe he was trying to help.
>
>I do have some successes, however. The poppy seeds I tossed out last winter
>have grown and are blooming, and some of them are the perfect shade of coral
>for her bouquet. The gerbera in containers are looking nice, and I have a
>yellow calla just starting to bloom.
>
>I picked up another plant yesterday that was the coral I wanted...anyone
>familiar with ixora? Will it be hardy for me? It really is a pretty color!
>
>Well, just thought I'd check in. Thanks to everyone for your help; it's
>been an experience. (And it's been great to have an excuse to work in the
>yard every weekend!)
>
>Wish me luck; countdown continues...
>
>Nancy Lowe
>Arkansas, zone 7
>
>
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