Cross post, Accessorizing new bath and think I may have gone too far
roarah
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Comments (25)You guys are funny! It's true, I started a compost pile in the winter, and suddenly everywhere i looked i saw a possible addition to my pile. Yes, my neighbors think I'm a little crazy, but i think the guy who burns his brush and mows his lawn 3x a week is the crazy one! Doesn't he know that brush could be shredded.... I know they all get a kick out of me digging up earthworms, collecting them when it rains, taking them to the compost bin and putting them in. Oh well....See MoreThe DH thinks I have finally gone off the deep end!
Comments (11)Andrea... As several others have mentioned... Welcome to the Club! I spent quite a bit of money on some more expensive varieties last fall, and told my DH that I wouldn't need to buy any more plants. I said that with the newer varieties, I would be perfectly happy just start to start crossing my own. And I held out... I didn't order any other fans, didn't even look when people here started talking about sales. Then I had to put a special grouping together for my Mother last week. I was looking for specific DL's, and found them on Maryott's, Ridaught's, and Browns Ferry Gardens. All were having incredible sales, so OF COURSE IT WOULDN'T HURT TO LOOK.............. Mind you, I have almost 1 1/2 acres that is fully landscaped (and I mean FULLY... can't squeeze any more plants into any of my beds without removing something.) I do have a large area of lawn, but it is off limits as we are eventually planning on building our house there. And now somehow over the last week I have around 40 new DL's coming........don't know quite how it happened, but it's a done deal at this point. I guess that the woods are going to have to be pushed out a little bit further on one side or the other! The good thing is that I am lucky enough to have a DH that is wonderful as well (not quite as good as yours as I have to build my own beds :), but he's still a keeper ), and he just smiles at me and shakes his head. He is definitely not a gardner, but he still enjoys sharing at least my seedling beds because I am so excited about them. I don't know what I would do if he wasn't so tolerant of my addiction! Actually, I guess I would just have to do what a member on the rose forum once posted.....sneak out in the middle of the night to plant. After all, how is he going to notice one more plant more or less? :) Thank goodness it hasn't come to that ...............SO FAR........... Happy Planting! Julie...See MoreMy bath remodel is finished!!! Lots of pictures - Cross post
Comments (10)Thanks, for the compliments! The tile is 17 1/2" x 17 1/2 " Cinnabar Cairo GL Porcelain, which was only about $3 a sq ft. The grout is grey, I chose a darker color, about the same color as the tile so it wouldn't show dirt easily but it didn't turn out very dark once I put it down. It is a little darker than the pics show but still not that dark. I am hoping that it will darken up a little over time since DH had to finish sanding the drywall after the tile was installed. I have mopped it but maybe the drywall dust is still in the grout??? I haven't sealed the grout yet maybe that will make it darken up a little also? Anyway we are very pleased over all with the way everything turned out. Terri...See Morex-post to Vines forum too - poor wisteria year here so far!
Comments (17)Faith - we definitely have good years and bad years with the wisteria, but this has been the only year since each of them started blooming that there has been virtually no bloom at all! Nessdizzle - Good Heavens! I would prune that thing like mad! It probably also needs a support post or two. The dense foliage can act like a sail on windy days. The trunk remains flexible even when it gets thicker than the one you have. In a high wind, the tree might fall over - but the trunk bends, not breaks. In that link I gave you, you can see pictures of when our Japanese one blew over a few years ago.... We ended up putting angle-iron posts on either side, running tie rods between them and then tied the trunk to the tie rods. I remember reading an RHS article on wisterias that said most Victorian-era wisteria trees still alive have iron rods at the center of their trunks - support rods that the trees grew around and are now inside the tree trunk - taking a chainsaw to one of those to take it down could be very hazardous! I took one of your pictures and drew lines to show where I'd start pruning - see below. I'd start by taking it back to a couple of stems, then take off masses of the foliage and stems so you can see what you have under there! Then start thinking of what you want it to look like and refine your pruning to start creating the shape you want. Our Chinese one is rather roughly shaped, aiming for a fairly upright tree with lots of branches to show off the flowers - which largely bloom as somewhat short racemes before the leaves emerge, so being branched fairly low gives flowers over a larger area of the tree. The Japanese one, on the other hand, flowers mainly after the leaves emerge and has longer flower racemes, so it displays best with no branching lower down so the flowers dangle free from above - although we always need to prune off some foliage to display the flowers. Almost all of the summer growth gets cut back regularly to maintain the shape we want - for the Japanese one, imagine an umbrella with a fringe of flowers hanging down... :-) Given how fast wisterias grow, you have lots of chances to adjust the shape if you don't like your first attempt(s) at pruning! Be bold! Have fun! The more pruning you do, the more flowers you get is our experience.......See Moreroarah
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