It's hard moving plants. I was continuing on with designing my backyard. And every time I looked at that cold frame, I grimaced. When I originally started on the back yard you could not see the cold frame. But as I cleared the trees from around the house, it was blatant. I worked hard to get that bed right. It had manure, weed screen, soaker hose hooked to a timer and a cold frame...Those were some thought about strawberries! I don't like to move plants because I have an escalation of commitment I put so much work in it to move it! Well, that's true, but I will still grimace, so I was gonna have to move it.
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| If I moved to cold frame next to the greenhouse I could store a lot of plants in it because my green house was getting full. |
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| The rose hip pallets from the the last blog I wrote. |
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| When people get lily plants for Easter, they throw the plant away when it s dead. I ask for the bulbs. They grow back and you don't have to think about them. |
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| I am SOOOO glad I decided not plant this after I bought it. This is called a Princess Tree. I am returning it to the nursery or killing it....It is a beautiful plant, that will take over your entire property and everyone elses. I believe it's illegal in the state of Connecticut but could be wrong, so I had an escalation of commitment here but I am glad I didn't. Here is the link about the Princess Tree. |
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| This is where things get really "chicken and egg" I have bought conservatively over $10,000 worth of plants for roughly $140.00. They average around $1.00 a piece. I have a red maple in here (which I bought for $1.87) in the back that desperately needs to go into the ground. So if I don't plant them, I get at stand still waiting for the perfect moment. What I have been doing is planting plants where I KNOW I want them. |
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| Here is the cold frame in the back ground. As you can see I have been busy planting things . I have been busy putting all those ornamentals in the ground and I kept staring at the cold frame. |
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| Bed by the corner window coming along |
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| While I was slowly designing my back yard, I started to notice "paths" and I thought ...great idea...so people don't walk through my rose garden. |
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| This the cold frame after being removed.....much better...the strawberries are still there but Ill move them |
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| So I started other paths out of the pool area. Here I had two pittosporums in the front (there is a rose bush and a sky pencil in front of it. Camellias in the back. |
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| Now that cold frame houses all the plants that was making it hard to go in the green house |
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| Much better, I can walk through it now |
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| This is hard to believe, but earlier in the day it was 98 degrees in here. It was 55 degrees outside. I need a thermometer with more numbers! |
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| Other propagation methods I try is cutting...those cutting behind the water bottle are a couple of months old so I guess they are still living...when do I put them in the ground??? |
