home improvement porn
May. 20th, 2011 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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nataliesee's post and a weekend with no soccer games in it, I have turned to thoughts of Projects in the House and Garden.
(As a shameless little side note to the universe: If anybody should feel like gifting me with a truckload of dark chocolate mulch, or perhaps just a couple dozen bags of the stuff, that'd be pretty awesome. Just puttin' that out there.)
It looks like my roses are recovering from my attempts to winterize them this past...um, winter. Which is good, because I really didn't know what I was doing and kind of hoped !enthusiasm! would carry the day. (There's a reason I do not cultivate Delicate Plants.) The hydrangea was pretty much doomed from the beginning, due to the shock of transplanting too late in the season, but one of the two butterfly bushes survived, so I'm counting this year's four out of six survival rate a minor victory.* Except it looks like the roses I have, now that they're flourising, are actually climbing roses and not shrub roses. This matters, because they're planted as if they're shrub roses, which are more or less self-supporting. Climbing roses cannot defy gravity without help. I wonder if I can convincediermuid to sacrifice some of the scrap lumber he's got in the garage to a homemade trellis. If I'm super-lucky, he'll teach me how to tie lashing knots with twine. And stuff.
Also, I need to trim the shrubberies, a haphazard effort at best, since I'm still learning. It's kind of like field surgery...I apologize to the plants an awful lot. And the spirea need some kind of support too, because they are super-bushy. I'm considering a rain garden of sorts where the sump pump tends to creat a swamp situation, and need to remember to divide the fecking irises come autum.
Depending on the weather, we may also get a chance to empty out the backyard shed this weekend -- the whole shebang, including laying everything out on tarps for sorting, moving bikes to the garage, and then reloading it all in a more efficient fashion. I am unreasonably excited about this.
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*I have an enduring fondness for hydrangeas and very much want to have one. Will have to make another attempt after some soil/light evaluation, this time with an earlier transplant time so as to reduce shock for the poor thing.
nataliesee's post and a weekend with no soccer games in it, I have turned to thoughts of Projects in the House and Garden. (As a shameless little side note to the universe: If anybody should feel like gifting me with a truckload of dark chocolate mulch, or perhaps just a couple dozen bags of the stuff, that'd be pretty awesome. Just puttin' that out there.)
It looks like my roses are recovering from my attempts to winterize them this past...um, winter. Which is good, because I really didn't know what I was doing and kind of hoped !enthusiasm! would carry the day. (There's a reason I do not cultivate Delicate Plants.) The hydrangea was pretty much doomed from the beginning, due to the shock of transplanting too late in the season, but one of the two butterfly bushes survived, so I'm counting this year's four out of six survival rate a minor victory.* Except it looks like the roses I have, now that they're flourising, are actually climbing roses and not shrub roses. This matters, because they're planted as if they're shrub roses, which are more or less self-supporting. Climbing roses cannot defy gravity without help. I wonder if I can convince
diermuid to sacrifice some of the scrap lumber he's got in the garage to a homemade trellis. If I'm super-lucky, he'll teach me how to tie lashing knots with twine. And stuff. Also, I need to trim the shrubberies, a haphazard effort at best, since I'm still learning. It's kind of like field surgery...I apologize to the plants an awful lot. And the spirea need some kind of support too, because they are super-bushy. I'm considering a rain garden of sorts where the sump pump tends to creat a swamp situation, and need to remember to divide the fecking irises come autum.
Depending on the weather, we may also get a chance to empty out the backyard shed this weekend -- the whole shebang, including laying everything out on tarps for sorting, moving bikes to the garage, and then reloading it all in a more efficient fashion. I am unreasonably excited about this.
::plotplotplot::
*I have an enduring fondness for hydrangeas and very much want to have one. Will have to make another attempt after some soil/light evaluation, this time with an earlier transplant time so as to reduce shock for the poor thing.
