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Thank-you for the link. They are absolutely gorgeous.
I really want to increase my flower bed sizes to about twice the sizes they are now. I'd love to have more of everything plus a few more that I don't have currently. It's just getting that idea to fly with the hubby. It's not that he don't like flowers, he just likes lawns as well. I'd much rather have a back yard lawn space as that is where the kids do most of their playing and turn my whole front yard into flower beds with walking paths and sitting areas.
Very pretty! I just loves flowers. We have long snowy winters where I am and I look so forward to seeing the green grass and flowers. I live in a small apartment with a small front porch. I have that porch just full of flowers right now. Like you I love using whiskey barrels. ***One hint, whiskey barrells take a ton of potting soil. If you are planting something in it that does not have a large root system invert a large pot inside the whiskey barrel when empty and then fill, so you only need about 1/2 of the potting soil you would need, then go ahead and plant.
Very pretty! I just loves flowers. We have long snowy winters where I am and I look so forward to seeing the green grass and flowers. I live in a small apartment with a small front porch. I have that porch just full of flowers right now. Like you I love using whiskey barrels. ***One hint, whiskey barrells take a ton of potting soil. If you are planting something in it that does not have a large root system invert a large pot inside the whiskey barrel when empty and then fill, so you only need about 1/2 of the potting soil you would need, then go ahead and plant.
Thank-you! I hear you about looking forward to spring. I love the snow and all, but after several months of it, it's nice to finally see some bright cheery color.
I used empty soda cans to fill in the lower half of my barrels. I stacked them 2 high. I would have used empty pots, but I had a ton of empty cans verses empty pots. I used a lot less soil putting something in the lower half and the drainage is so much better.
For my large planters I use packing peanuts then cover them with cocoa mat and then put good potting soil and plant. that way I don't waste expensive potting soil where roots will never go and I still have good drainage. I have used the same peanuts for over 10 years,,,,,after all, they are plastic.
For my large planters I use packing peanuts then cover them with cocoa mat and then put good potting soil and plant. that way I don't waste expensive potting soil where roots will never go and I still have good drainage. I have used the same peanuts for over 10 years,,,,,after all, they are plastic.
I have heard of other people doing that. Whatever works, at least it is keeping those packing peanuts out of the landfill.
The garden is inspiring! I love the lamp post. I know what you mean about garden space. I live in an apartment now and have a patio with a limited area for plants. Trees form a screen from the neighbors driveway next door. Now they have to replace a patio slab so I have to wait. I've been thinking of buying a home, just a small one, with lots of yard in the rear (especially), just so I can have a garden (LOL). Thanks for sharing your garden photos. Beautiful!
My motto for life
A GIRL CAN'T HAVE TOO MANY FLOWER BEDS
My husband would spend about two hours tilling up clay with amendments for a new flower bed and I swear I would plant it chock full in 20 minutes and stand there with a pitiful look on my face and say "Bobby, just one more bed please?"
He goes by the motto IF MAMA AIN'T HAPPY AIN'T NOBODY HAPPY so he always obliges. what a dear and patient man. he's a keeper after 34 years...hope I don't wear him out before his 50 year contract is up!!!
My motto for life A GIRL CAN'T HAVE TOO MANY FLOWER BEDS
My husband would spend about two hours tilling up clay with amendments for a new flower bed and I swear I would plant it chock full in 20 minutes and stand there with a pitiful look on my face and say "Bobby, just one more bed please?"
He goes by the motto IF MAMA AIN'T HAPPY AIN'T NOBODY HAPPY so he always obliges. what a dear and patient man. he's a keeper after 34 years...hope I don't wear him out before his 50 year contract is up!!!
So True!!!
Playing in my flower beds is my only main vice, my other vice is sewing/quilting. I don't go out and drink and party, I don't do drugs, and I don't gamble. A girl has to have a little fun in her life and my fun is flowers and sewing/quilting.
I am slowly working on my hubby to let me increase my flower beds. I think the older he gets and is finding mowing, weed eating, and raking is getting harder to do he'll finally cave and let me have free reign in he front yard as that would mean less work for him in the long run. The backyard is huge and it takes several hours to mow and weed eat. I do have plans for the back yard that will decrease some of the lawn, but for the most part it would remain mainly lawn.
I can see his point in wanting a lawn in the front as it does look nice when it is all mowed and weed eated. The flowers stand out that much more. So I would probably oblige him some lawn, but not as much as we currently have.
It's nice of your hubby to oblige you. He sounds like a man who truely understands that his happiness relies on the happiness of his wife.
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