The yard looks so nice, with all the trees in new bright green leaves, and the roses all busted out in bright pink blooms. And I mowed it a couple of days ago, so that really helps, too. My huge white azaleas were loaded, but they are in the back, next to the house and I would have to go outside and walk over there to enjoy them. I did it once, but didn't get enough of a thrill to do it again.
I decided I need to have more flowering areas in the yard, so I called Jeff, who had planned my landscaping for me last year and he came over yesterday to hear what I had in mind. I told him I wanted irrigation to any area that we landscaped. I cannot be depended upon to water anything. And I would like lots of color, so when I look out my kitchen windows, I see several beautiful, colorful areas. Can't wait to have that happen!
On a different note, but the same theme...Brent & Carolyn & the kids gave me a big, heavy hanging basket of begonias last year...Mother's Day, I think. He hung it for me, but the tree he put it on was about 6 feet short of the hose I wanted to use. I didn't want to have to carry a 100 ft. hose out there (and then have to coil it back up every time), so I used the shorter one and sprayed toward the plant when I needed to water it. Well, I didn't always water it when it needed to be watered. I did it when I remembered. Not very often, in other words. It did okay for awhile, but eventually it was dead. Quite a while after it died we must have gotten some rain, and the next thing I knew, the begonia had sprung back to life. When it was going to freeze, I put it in the garage with a box over it and left it there for quite a while...no water. A month or so later, I took off the box and it was okay. I might have given it a little water then, I'm not sure. Anyhoo, I left it in the garage, a)because it was heavy, and 2) I hadn't decided where I was going to put it...not in the tree that was too far away, for sure.
Finally, I decided to hang it in a tree close to the driveway. It was too heavy for me to hang high unless I got a ladder, so I hung it where I could. I knew it was too low and I would have to duck when I mowed around that tree. When I got on the mower a few days later and made the turn near the tree, I was watching the base of the tree because I was going to make a circle around it very close to the trunk. And then suddenly, WHAM! Of course I knew immediately what I had banged into, but I turned my head and looked at that basket which was swinging from the impact. All I can say is I'm glad it was high enough that I hit it with the top of my head and not with my face. I can easily imagine a broken nose. That sucker was heavy!
When the basket was in the garage, just before I took it out and hung it up, it looked great. After I hung it, I gave it some water and it now looks dead. I need to go check on it sometime. I think it was probably the sudden change from the garage to the outside...and the tree I put it on hadn't totally leafed out. My bad.
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