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lighter:
Tupp:
I vote you cover the little front area in pots and cultivate things you love to eat and look at. I have poppies and veggies going. Poppies make me so happy! Cleaning up the alleyway should happen only if it costs you nothing physically. though the idea of cleaning it up appeals to me a good deal. Making things feel special, after they've been neglected a long while, is so satisfying, IME.
If you don't have enough pots... have you considered planting in bales? That used to be a thing... right?
About your little mossy area.... maybe leading to a secret fairy garden. I'm going to choose a dense area in my yard where I can pretend it comes out in your little mossy garden. That brings me so much joy to picture you just over there.... on the other side of a hedge..... happily tending your little patch: )
Lighter
lighter:
Hops:
I hope your blueberry bushes are productive and happy when you finally get a look at them. Did you say you fertilized them?
It feels like this stay at home time has given you more joy and connection with your house and garden, Hops. No matter what happens with M.... that connection will enhance it. IME. It always makes me feel good to read M is helping you with your projects. With your space.
As for the house hunting..... meh. Who says you have to have any conclusions to try things?
What rules say you have to do anything? Are there rules? And if there are, are they your rules, or rules inside your head?
You don't have to make ANY PLAN and stick to it if it's not working. You can have a different plan today, and tomorrow and the next day. If you feel like spending more time with M.... you do. Less? Less.
Is the image of Auntie Mame (Rosalinda Russel, of course) pointing out where new very tall planting beds should go, before readying herself to spend a night at M's (in her own beautiful blue study/bedroom) an odd thing to pop up just now?
Hopsy Mame, digging into life, enjoying it deeply, confident M wants to enjoy it with her. If not now... when?
Lighter
Lighter
Hopalong:
PS Let's head over to the Relationship thread (where I am grateful, as here, for Relationship responses) to leave YARD in its glorious own space.
Hugs
Hops
lighter:
I had a fantastic day digging up tons of huge Hostas from very generous neighbor's yard. His Hosta grow like mad..... I can take all I want. It would cost hundreds of dollars to purchase the specimens I filled my truck with today. Like a dream! The plan is to replace all the moss in the front yard... I have large stone circles around the trees.... all will be Hosta inside circles soon.
My back is feeling about normal again.... thank God.
I also picked up 4 55 gallon rain barrels for 12.00..... they were Dawn dish soap containers originally, repurposed to hold water at a hunting camp without a well. I had to make 2 trips, but worth it. The guy selling them was full of gardening information and had beehives! BEE. HIVES. So much happiness in those discussions.
Lighter
Hopalong:
How neat, Lighter!
Especially rain barrels.
I'm sure you've installed them before...one thing that turned out to be crucial that I learned (belatedly) was the importance of mounting them on a good base of say three cinderblocks in height, minimum, to have adequate flow from the hose. I had one installed by a confident amateur at my parents' house and it leaked and eventually cracked the foundation. Oof!
I have lots of huge hostas along my patio. Deer used to eat them before but now that it's got funiture and two gates, my yard is finally deer proof. Well, not the front yard, but all the rest.
M took a big order from me for a garden center and brought me huge bags of potting soil, and some of my favorites: lobelia, portulaca, and geraniums. I've got more seeds and some old spring-flowering bulbs (weird tall flowers, forget the name) and I'm going to give them a go. One thing I lack is adequate water source on that side of the house which means I have to lug a watering can from my kitchen sink out to the patio over and over and over, which is uncomfortable for my back but likely good for me.
Your rain barrel made me think: hmmm, just one on that side could change a lot. But the leaky one of yore makes me pause....
Enjoy!
Hops
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