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Comments (21)Well, ladies, you have inspired me! I should have known what gardeners would answer. I will try to use mostly what I have available now to keep costs down. I have a purple smoke tree (still in the pot), a Rosy Glow barberry, and lots of seedlings here and there of red bud and kolreuteria paniculata or Golden Rain Trees. Then there is the weigelia 'wine and roses', a white clematis, a dwarf My Monet weigela.....all in the pot ghetto. I have maybe 20 Hyperion daylilies, and 10 or so Blue Berry Candy daylilies. It will be a start. Thank you all for the support and ideas. You can bet I will post pictures of during and after the planting. I promise that I will actually try to plan this area........unlike my usual method. I may even use a tape measure! Oh, I forgot all the iris I need to divide and relocate....See MoreWhich one would you pull?
Comments (9)Jean, this is from the article you linked also: "It has long lasting effects against target weeds when applied at low rates. Clopyralid has low toxicity to humans and animals." I did read the entire article and many more starting back in May trying to figure out what was going on and if it was safe to eat our tomatoes. I have read so many conflicting articles on the safety of vegetables effected by herbicides, animals who consume herbicide tainted feed, the low (or high) toxicity to humans. Conflicting articles on the use of pesticides and whether they have "low toxicity" to animals and humans. Enough to make your head spin. Your last post seemed a little condenscending, but that is the problem with the written word. You may have just meant to be helpful. I have evolved as a gardener over the past 30 years. I would not have hesitated to use a pesticide on our garden that many years ago, now I do not. I would have sprayed weed killer on the lawn and in the beds that many years ago also. I haven't done that in years. I just don't buy that it passes through the gut of the animal unchanged or that it is "low in toxicity to humans"....See MoreWhat would you do here? Move … which one?
Comments (4)Hi Linnea, I think your green and white one is Francee. I have trouble integrating the green and white ones into a predominantly blue and yellow bed too. Do you have any other hostas that are green and white to balance the green/white to gold/ blue ratio? I've had an eye operation, so I'm not sure I'm seeing the colours of your hostas properly, so I hesitate making suggestions on how to move yours around. Generally speaking I've found that solid blue hostas and solid green hostas act like neutrals. I use yellow hostas as contrast to blue or green hostas or to pick up the yellow in a variegated hosta. After many years of trial and error in combining hostas I do the following: 1. A gold centered blue hosta goes well with a gold margined blue hosta. The same holds true with white and blue variegated hostas. 2. Two adjacent hostas should have a common colour, except that green ties anything together for me. 3. Identically variegated hostas look good together if the leaves are different in some way...either smaller or ruffled or shiny etc. If I can't correct what I consider an error I introduce green, either a green hosta or another perennial. I like using green ferns (Athyrium 'Lady in Red', 'Dre's Dagger','Victoriae'), aruncus aethusifolius or epimediums. Queen Josephine is a gold margined green hosta and Frances Williams is a gold margined blue hosta. So, a gold hosta would complement both. Francee is a white margined green hosta and Queen Josephine is gold margined green hosta. A solid green hosta would be a good transition from one to the other. In the end, whatever pleases you is what works. If you haven't used Hakonechloa macra before, it does get quite big. I put mine in front of the smaller aruncus and should have done the reverse....See MoreWould you live with one of your children when you get old or alone?
Comments (88)We planned ahead for this when we built our retirement home four years ago in the resort area where DD (our only) and DSIL have settled by building a duplex with them that preserved privacy between households but allows easy access when wanted Although we are hopefully still years away from needing help, it has proved to be mutually beneficial to both generations. First, housing costs in this area are very high and even though the kids both have good jobs and are hard workers, because the build was primarily financed by the bank of mom and dad they have a nicer home in a high end neighborhood than they could otherwise afford. Second, we are available to help with DGS, age 4, when they need help (and they absolutely do not take advantage of this!). Because the kids both work full time, they sppreciate that I cook for all of us most weekday nights, it gives them more time with their son and I appreciate their help cleaning up after dinner. Built in dog sitters when one generation is traveling. DH and DSIL share yard duties DSIL can fix anything! While the ”kids” may seem to be getting more benefit right now, to us having them and DGS next door is priceless and and, in the normal course of events, we will need their help more and more as we age. If life doesn’t follow the normal course, we built with potential resale in mind and one or both sides can be sold. Fortunately, it has turned out to be a very good investment because we purchased the lot while the area was still recovering from the 08 bust and built before the current building frenzy raised prices so much. Anything can happen in the next twenty or thirty years, but at present I believe we have our bases covered nicely....See More
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