Projects, Pavers, Pickets, and Perennials

[thistlebloom]

What no photos of grasshoppers.

You mean you want to see the warty side of my garden?
it's definitely got one....

 

[Nyboy]

LOL the good and the bad

 

[Carol Dee]

You mean you want to see the warty side of my garden?
it's definitely got one....

A warty side? I doubt it!

 

[thistlebloom]

Okay @Nyboy, here's some warts for you!

This is my Sweet Summer Love clematis. I had to trim about 2 feet off the top that were just naked stems, thanks to the grasshoppers. I had a vertical shot of the whole thing but when I turned it, it wouldn't load.



These are my sweetpeas that won't grow. They are wimpy and frozen in time.


This is my Joe Pye that I had to truss up like a hostage because it was flopping everywhere and in my way when I did the stone. Plus a bunch of miscellaneous junk that needs putting away.


This is a huge clematis that should be on top of the trellis, not lounging under it, but the gardener didn't keep it managed until too late. That darn gardener!



Remember when I said I would get this dry creek bed around the bend and past the dogrun before fall? Umm...two falls ago maybe? I haven't touched it, and the part that is done is weedy.


This is the only cabbage in my garden. The neighbor girl got it from school and didn't trust her mom to grow it in their garden. I'm doing a great job with it, yeah?


This just a small sample, but I can only take so much humiliation at a time so we'll stop here.

 

[Carol Dee]

Even this looks better then my yard, So what is it with the sweet pea? I got some from a friends thriving patch. It is so stunted , like you say, frozen in time. Well at least it is ALIVE! I even think the cabbage looks fine. Not all that much bug damage. The weeds have run amuck. Sadly I am still being scolded if I try to pull weeds. On light duty until Aug 5th. By then the flower beds will be swallowed alive in weeds.

 

[Smart Red]

Everything looks so fresh and growing. I expected warts. If those are pictures of your warts, what I ask, would you call the mess on my property, I wonder?

 

[digitS']

Thistle', I had my sweet peas surgically removed ...

Used a spading fork and a 4-prong cultivator.

There were 2 damaged flowers but all the plants looked like they would immediately succumb to mildew if there ever any humidity in the air. Smoke therapy was doing them no good. They were scarred simply by existing.

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

It's so disappointing too. I love having sweetpeas by the front door.

 

[thistlebloom]

Everything looks so fresh and growing. I expected warts. If those are pictures of your warts, what I ask, would you call the mess on my property, I wonder?

Red, I was just too shy to show you all the behind the scenes unsightliness.
All the shots I took vertically don't load when I rotate them, and my camera wouldn't focus on the grasshoppers, so there were actually more that I didn't post.

 

[thistlebloom]

@Carol Dee , did you have some sort of accident?