Does anyone else like English country style?
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TERRIBLE! High Country Gardens - Anyone else?
Comments (6)I hadn't followed up on this, and wanted to say that I did get my refund for the plants. Though, when considering *half* of the plants were screwy, I thought they should pay half of the shipping charges - but they didn't. On top of that, of the plants that remained - not all of the survived. Now that it's spring, I can be sure. My garden is pretty bare looking compared to what I'd expected when ordering :/ If the plants were anywhere near as fantastic as I'd read, I'd have been happy to pay the price. Alas.... - Luckily, I've learned a lot more about Xeriscape and native plants and came up with a plan: Learn from sites and people online, catalogs like HCG, cut out or print out photos and info on water, sun, height, width, and bloom times - Put them in a 'diary'. (My diary is a simple black and white "Composition" book from the supermarket.) Then bring that with me to local nurseries and even cheapo big stores. This has worked out great! I found some sweet Gazanias for 1/2 the price of HCG and they are 4 times the size. They are doing better than any of my HCG plants. It's so handy to take this diary everywhere - It helps me to *focus* and keeps me from getting a mass of plants that won't work in my garden (which I have done *many* times - who can resist pretty flowers?!) Many of you have probably done something like this already, but I'm a bit slow when it comes to desert gardening and wish someone had told me to do it when we first moved here! If you live in Tucson and see a woman with a B&W Compo book reading furiously at the nursery, come up and say hello :) -A...See MoreAnyone else out in the hill country?
Comments (9)I'm in NE Medina Co., on the side of a hill. Caliche, rocks, very little soil, raised beds with topsoil work fairly well. I'm into natives and butterfly plants that can survive here. Natives of Texas is one of my favorite nurseries! There is also a native nursery in the town of Medina (between Bandera and Kerrville). It's called Medina Garden Nursery (I believe) located by the river (or creek?). And if you can, check out the Mostly Native Plant Sale in Boerne on April 5th. I wasn't able to keep a Texas Bluebell alive past the first year, but they sure are pretty!...See MoreAnyone Else Conflicted about Building in the Country?
Comments (71)Oops, sorry just reread post and you don't even have to change schools - so no problem with leaving friends and making new ones! The school friends will love to come visit. My Ds has a friend in town (not even in same school, but Scouts) and they're always asking *him* over, we can't wait to have a campout at our house but there's one at their house this w/e if it stops raining (Mem Day/bday party for this boy was rescheduled for this w/e b/c of rain - it's been raining for a solid month now)!. If this thread is still going in August I'll be sure to post pics of the "family reunion" (really just my dad's brothers and their kids who live in the area - I don't think those who have moved out of the area are coming back, my siblings are coming end of July). My cousin, her dad (middle brother) and I all have adjoining land, my uncle mows all his with a riding lawnmower (we have hayfields, my cousin just has the old farmhouse, barn and 5 acres). Just my uncles, cousins and spouses, and their kids in the area add up to about about 100 people (25 from one uncle, his kids/spouses and grandkids alone!) so we set up a few tents, 3 grills and sometimes a spit with a pig, a few kiddie pools, a slip-n-slide, and the kids get filthy in the pond/creek/swamp and the slip-N-slide, we hose them off, some go home but some stay around the bonfire til the wee hours - we try to do this every year so the 2nd cousins who live within 10 miles of each other but all go to different schools in different towns can see each other (besides Little League when they play against each other LOL). Oh, and I did manage to get a pic of the buck and doe together (can just see her hind end - no pun intended! - under the tree at the edge of the woods b/t him and the birch)....See MoreDoes anyone else feel like 'tea' today? :)
Comments (21)I know the feeling, Shades- I'm enjoying an adult beverage right now. One of the first things I planted at our new place was 2 daffodils. That's right- two. The little church I visit up there had a sermon which related to daffodil bulbs, so each person got one in a little kit with fertilizer and instructions. I wasn't going to take one, but the cutest little boy ran up and was SO excited to give me one! Then folks I insisted I take two; one for me and one for my wife. In the spirit (pun intended) of the thing I felt obligated to plant them. We visited in February, and they were up and had buds. Alas, we weren't there for the actual flowers, but I was still excited. Two down; about 500 to go. I want to naturalize them all over the place....See Moreteacats
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