I have been a busy bee planting my lilies. The happy part is that I had plenty of room for them. In fact I could plant more, I still have room. There are lots of extras. On the bags that had small bulbs, and I mean really small by Lily Garden standards, there were 5-7 bulbs each instead of the three that I ordered. So those should clump up fast. But I don't think those particular types make big bulbs anyway. Now I have to go dig up three rose bushes so that I can plant the rest of the lily bulbs in the spot the three were. One is deffinately getting transplanted, probably two. The third gets tosssed. This would be at the very back of my front yard rose garden that I call Floribundaville. I already have quite afew lilies planted along just alittle further in there. I want to increase the lily section as I love the way it looks with the roses in front and the lilies in back. The fact that its on an uphill slope makes it all come together and easy to see if your standing on the sidewalk.

we were suppose to get storms here last night. I seen seversl slerts on tv sbout severe storms coming, but, nothing cemt herellast night some one may hev god riain, but zi didn't get e drop here. zi went out the other day with my spade to try snf dig up s daylily thet zi didnt see any more,snd zi wanted to see if maybe it was just the leaves was gone, snd zi coulf not dig in thid hard dirt, couldn't even mske s dent in the ground, it ewas so hard,ssnd i been wstering it every day.too,but its been so hot and dry here, watering dont do a lot of good.a hr after i water, the g groungd isdry . Jean

Jeanie, Sometimes the does who live near us bring their fawns to the edge of the woods just outside the garden and leave them there while they go off for a hour or two. I don't know why, but they usually do it when I'm in the garden so I've always felt like they were wanting to leave their babies where I could watch over them while I worked in the garden. This sounds silly, but they've done it on and off ever since we moved here 13 years ago, and I believe it is the does who actually live on our land and the adjacent property and who grew up here. I don't think it is just random does who wonder onto the place. Sometimes I put out deer corn for the deer to eat in this hot weather, but not every night. When the deer start feeling desperate for deer corn, they come stand in the driveway and stare at the house. If I don't come out and put out deer corn, they leave and come back with their fawns. There they all stand, hot, tired, thin and hungry-looking. I feel like they are using the fawns to manipulate me into feeding them "Now!". Does it work? Heck, yes. I'm not going to let a little fawn starve. I feel sorry for all the wild things. They are so hungry and so thin. I am putting out limited food (it certainly is not an all-you-can-eat buffet) for them every morning and evening, and put out water daily too. Mostly we're feeding all kinds of birds and cottontail rabbits, but also possums, armadilloes, raccoons (unfortunately), turtles, and deer. Lots of small flyers like butterflies, moths, and dragonflies come to the wildlife puddles for water. The longer the drought and heat drag on, the worse things get. People near us who have a different water company than ours are being asked to restrict watering, but so far our water company isn't having issues, knock on wood. Conditions are deteriorating here really quickly because of the drought and the heat. Jeanie, All that works for me is fencing, period. Anything that is too 'precious' to be eaten must be grown behind fencing. It took me 5 or 6 years of fighting the low fencing battle and losing it before I finally decided to stop planting deer chow. Now, any potential deer chow is fenced behind tall fencing. The hotter and drier the year, the more the deer devour. In a hot, dry year like this, they'll eat stuff they never eat in a "normal" weather year, not that any of us ever have a normal year anyway. I wish I could train the deer to eat the grasshoppers. That would be one way to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. Dawn

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