Nice to be back and what is new?

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I am starting to read up forum again after over a year of absence.

So glad to see it is goin strong.

My update - we moved 45 minutes up north near WI border, move was kinda sudden one fall day I was planting bulbs and next spring was digging them out trying to move with me.

I took what I could from my garden. Now I have land but have no garden yet.

Lots of hostas diminished significantly and some did not make it. This spring I discovered plenty of standing water in beds so will have to regrade some land.

On positive note I have much more land to play with. New house is inside of forest preserve with all wildlife surrounded.

Last spring I got my last package from Gary only to find out he passed away a week later. Yesterday I found that Jeff Miller passed away as well. That is so hard to take in and think of fragility of life.

Darn.

I spent last year remodeling new house and barely seen garden outside. Now I feel its time to get garden updated. Unortunately my move

was not organized so you will be all tired from my ID hostas threads. We had to remove our old oak prior to selling house and even that it was winter, crane, trucks and other machinery destroyed any labels that were in the ground. Oy.

This is one of my seedlings that I started prior to move. Red line has disappeared now that leaves are older.

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djacob Z6a SE WI

last year

I looooove your kitchen too. Mine is about 10x10 with 2 doorways……small. Congrats on the house and land. I missed you last year,but knew you had a big kitchen project going on. Sometimes plants just have to wait. lololol

debra

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peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
last year
Great to have you back! Sad that many plants had a hard time but it will be wonderful for you to have more space to work with. A sudden move is never easy and it will take a while to get the lay of the land sorted. Your seedling is lovely. It is a good thing that we enjoy IDing, welcome back!!
lindalana 5b Chicago thanked peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
last year
Congratulations on your new home!..the setting sounds wonderful..I have a wooded lot and love it..

it's sad that we've lost some of our hosta experts..they were such great people 🙁..

have fun designing and planting your new garden..
lindalana 5b Chicago thanked nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
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steve duggins(Z6a) - Central Ohio
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Nice to have you back. Enjoy your freedom to dream and plant to your heart's content before you wind up wondering where you're going to put things - or is that just me? I couldn't resist a blooming size $6 Shirley Temple Peony that I have no idea where to put.
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oursteelers 8B PNW
last year
All new land! Congrats on your new home. How much fun are you going to have?!?! How much land do you have now?
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lindalana 5b Chicago
Original Author
last year
Thank you! I spent last year on various home forums, kitchen, bathroom, floor... We did hire few trades but also done a lot of work ourselves. I do not think we doing it conventional way, hubby is retired and I am getting there but got house in the woods, way too big for 2 humans, although I bet our 2 dogs and cat do not think that way.

We got our kitty from living in rural spot years back, she is loving her new gigs.

Next to us water runoff swampy pond and we have family ducks there, papa duck is very protective of his family. Unfortunately it is also breeding ground for mosquito so there is that.

Our property is slightly over an acre, about 1/3 front is sunny and unfenced, another 1/3 fenced and another part is wild and full of buckthorn.

Here is my new kitchen. I built/assembled all cabinets. Very proud of my newly found carpentry skills 😆

Will take pics of property.
lindalana 5b Chicago
Original Author
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This is what my beds look now. Land but no garden. I moved what I could and can not recommend it.
oursteelers 8B PNW
last year
Your kitchen is gorgeous!
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nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
last year
lindalana..looks nice!..show us pics as you plant your garden..
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