I called Jimmy (works for Tony & Mike...also Mike's BIL) and his girlfriend, Pam, to ask them over to dig up some plants I had promised to give them a few weeks ago. I was glad to see the pampas grass in the back edge of my back garden go. I was also giving Pam the yukka plants in the front flower bed. I had dug out about half of it last summer and just gave up. Anyway, Jimmy is young and strong so I kept insisting that they take ALL of the yukka. After having him go back and dig more of the roots up, even he was exhausted. At least I have a start on that front bed that has had me so intimidated, and they have some adult plants to begin some new beds.
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I hoed weeds and watered the veggie garden. The bulk of the afternoon was spent using my mini-hedge trimmer to cut back the ivy on the front porch posts and the front and side sections of the underpinned area of the porch. Its growth was getting out of hand. It now looks like a young kid just back from the barber shop with his new summer cut!
Tuesday:
Jimmy was to come back this morning, after a call from me, to dig up a really large lorepetulum shrub to transplant to the entrance of one of Tony's subdivisions. Angie (Tony's wife) was going with Jimmy to the subdiv. to make sure the shrub got planted correctly and watered in well. I was up around 7 AM to iron a shirt for DH. At 7:20 I decided to step out onto the porch to feed the cats and discovered that Jimmy was parked outside.........just about that time he came around the house with the large shrub thrown over his shoulder to load into the truck. Thinking he would get an early start on the day and not bother me, he had started the work without me...............my heart sank as I saw the roots of the plant had been severed and there was no root ball of dirt with the shrub. Not know any better, he assumed the shrub could be dug up as carelessly as the yukkas the day before. I had planted this lorepetulum when it was about six inches high to grow for the subdivision entrances. It was now huge and perhaps four-five feet high x three to four feet wide. I doubt the shrub will make it, but Angie has potted it, placed it in shade, and will keep it watered for a while just to see if it will recover. So instead of gardening like I had planned to do all day today, I now had to go with Angie and Jimmy to try to find a suitable tree or shrub to plant at the entrance of Wildewood. Angie went to HDepot and Lowes at Hamilton Place while I went to their stores at Ft. O. I found a lovely purple/red leafed Forest Pansy Redbud (about 8' tall) on sale for $20 at HD. Angie and Jimmy met me, picked up the tree, tree support and tree trunk protector & went to plant the tree. Angie called me later to tell me it really looked great. What a stressful morning this was!!!
Later today, I mixed the poison ivy Round-Up in the sprayer and started to work on the vines up the side of the new yard and in the bed areas where I want to plant oakleaf hydranges, hosta, etc. I also resprayed the area inside the kennel fence and was surprised to see that the leaves on the vines were dying back from the spraying I gave them last week. So glad to see that.
I will spray the front bed in the morning around 11AM after the sun dries the grass and weeds from the night dew. I also plan to clear the back bed of all the unused pots (putting them inside kennel area privacy fence) tomorrow morning so I can see what areas I have to work with more clearly. I'll start using those areas for plants and not storing unused pots out of DH yard.
DH's sister called yesterday about Mark and his wife expecting their first baby just after the first of next year.
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