Post by adhdfashion on Aug 26, 2014 18:55:26 GMT -5
If my dd1 wasn't an absolute flower freak there would been none at my house. She has picked out and planted all of the flowers seeds and bulbs. If I can't eat it, I not interested in growing it. She is already a top notch little gardener. There are flowers everywhere.
As much as I LOVE fresh tomatoes, I never grow them, because a tomato plant is one of the ugliest effing plants imaginable. I'd rather pay someone for fresh tomatoes.
You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but you may be interested to know that tomatoes were grown as ornamentals for a couple hundred years in Europe before white people figured out they were edible. True Story.
As much as I LOVE fresh tomatoes, I never grow them, because a tomato plant is one of the ugliest effing plants imaginable. I'd rather pay someone for fresh tomatoes.
You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but you may be interested to know that tomatoes were grown as ornamentals for a couple hundred years in Europe before white people figured out they were edible. True Story.
"It may interest me to know" ^o)
I know that a lot of ornamentals are ugly (JMO, of course).
Every time I go to "trim" a bush it either gets cut down entirely, or it becomes a bonsai. Lol
treedimensional you will be pleased to know that we called an arborist to look at my neighbor's butchered maple. The previous company she had just butchers the ends off I offered to help her pay for it if we used an actual arborist. I hope that:
1. something can be done for it. It's huge (I'd guess 50 years old at least) and provides my deck with shade after 4pm. Without it our deck will be uninhabitable.
2. This costs me less than $2k for our half.
Am I right to have hope?
Of course you're right. But yikes at your HALF being two grand!
You ladies with grass are light years ahead of me. It still looks like a construction zone landscaping wise. And on top of that we don't have gutters yet and we were getting a TON of rain for summer in Texas so we had to do something to stop erosion from the falling water at the valleys of our metal roof. Our solution was piling up leftover stone where the water was landing so we are surrounded by dirt and what seems like random piles of rock.
You ladies with grass are light years ahead of me. It still looks like a construction zone landscaping wise. And on top of that we don't have gutters yet and we were getting a TON of rain for summer in Texas so we had to do something to stop erosion from the falling water at the valleys of our metal roof. Our solution was piling up leftover stone where the water was landing so we are surrounded by dirt and what seems like random piles of rock.
You can pile mulch on bare ground to prevent erosion until you're ready to plant.