Garden

[JustJazzmom]

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@Allegheny wrote:

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@Allegheny  In spite of my crappy clay soil, lol, I buy plants like crazy, and amend, amend, amend, the soil.

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@mousiegirl  I've seen your pictures and shared them with my husband.  I am just amazed!

I don't mind digging the holes, actually have fun making baseballs out of the sticky yellow muck and pitching it in the woods.  I am thinking I need to stock pile top soil.  

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Stock pile compost instead. There is no set standard for topsoil as to quality. Compost can make clay soils less water retentive and sandy soils more water retentive.

I use top soil only to level out any dips in the lawn.

[Lilysmom]

Well girls, I am joining your club.  I am full up BUT I had to get a climbing hydrangea to crawl up over a bare rock that is creating a downpour zone in a heavy rain.  That is totally my fault as I cleared this huge rock off myself.  It had dead trees growing out of it.  Of course I had to clean it up.  My bad.

I also bought some creeping thyme which I am planting en masse to protect a slope from erosion.  

Other than this, I have been good🙄!  LM

[Allegheny]

@Lilysmom

I never heard of climbing hydrangea so I just googled it.

Oh no....I need one of them too.  

When we had some professional landscaping done three years back we had them bring in huge boulders to construct two mulched planting beds along our drive.  I've been day dreaming about something that would climb.  I'm not one for roses. 

I think I have my work cut out for me this year. So I am going to be on the look about for next gardening season.  Thank you for making my day!

[Lilysmom]

@Allegheny, oh no!  Not like you needed me to get your going!

I have also planted some clematis this year. I have one going up a post where I have a bird house and I have two more, one of which will climb part of my huge rock I hope.

I don't have any roses either so I had to put on my thinking cap for a solution to the problem I created with the rock.

And I thought I was being so good.  The sales were just too hard to resist!  LM

[JustJazzmom]

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@Allegheny wrote:

@Lilysmom

I never heard of climbing hydrangea so I just googled it.

Oh no....I need one of them too.  

When we had some professional landscaping done three years back we had them bring in huge boulders to construct two mulched planting beds along our drive.  I've been day dreaming about something that would climb.  I'm not one for roses. 

I think I have my work cut out for me this year. So I am going to be on the look about for next gardening season.  Thank you for making my day!

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Make sure you have strong trellises for climbing hydrangea.