My chartreuse thumb

So, since I have had my house, I have dipped my little toe into the gardening pool.... Well, basically I have only bought some hanging plants and attempted to plant some flowers in the rectangular containers on either side of my front porch.

When I bought the house, there were some pink Impatiens (just now learned how to spell their name) in the pots. Last year, I decided to try something new and bought these hot pink/magenta colored dianthus. They didn't quite end up looking like this picture unfortunately, thanks to a drought and some interference by a furry four-legged creature who likes to dig and bury her rawhide bones. The impatiens actually tried to come back and looked better than the dianthus so, I got the hint.

Today, I bought some more impatiens to plant for the year. They are sort of a purply pink. There were a lot of folks at the Garden section at Home Depot because it was such a beautiful day. But then, about 2pm, grey clouds rolled in, lightening splashed across the sky and it started to pour.....

So, about 8pm, when the rain seemed to have let up and it was still rather warm. So, I decided to get to planting since tomorrow is going to be a busy day. Things were going fine. I finished with one pot and then decided to go ahead and do the next one and got finished just in time, sort off. When the flash lightening and the big raindrops returned, I decided to call it quits. Hopefully, I can keep these growing and the dog away from them this year!

Spring has sprung!

Pretty!

So maybe chivalry is not quite dead......

but work accountibility, response time and customer service might be!


This weekend I embarked on a "little" yard project. Well, I thought it was going to be a little smaller than it is turning out to be. I came up with this great idea to turn this empty area along the side of my garage into a pebble walkway. I figureed it would be a low maintenance way to maintain the space which just seemed to grow weeds and collect leaves. So I went out and bought some stuff to kill the plants and the landscaping liner fabric to keep the sun out but let water pass through and then I bought a few bags of river pebbles to see how it would look.


It seemed to look nice so I decided to keep going..... but when I actually looked at the bag and figured my square footage, it looked like I would need.......drumroll, please..... about 65 bags of pebbles to fill the space!!! Now, each of these bags weighs about 45 lbs each! (are you starting to put this all together here?)


So, over 3 trips to the Home Depot, I ended up purchasing and moving around almost 3000 lbs of pebbles!! That is 1 1/2 tons! Good thing I have been working out!


And I really needed my strength too because, of the 3 trips I took, I only got help from Home Depot personnel to move the bags and load them into my care ONCE! (for only 24 of the bags.) The other two times, the cashiers paged for loading help and NOONE came! I got tired of waiting so I just did it myself. (Sigh, story of my life......) Good thing strangers saw the absurdity of this and decided to help me. The first time this woman, who was standing by me, volunteered her boyfriend to help me load my car. The last time, this guy in a convertible who was driving up to the store saw me and asked me to wait until her parked his car so he could help me! Thank you! So it seems chivalry is not completely dead....


But I am thinking of writing to Home Depot and giving them a piece of my mind!


But my walkway is looking pretty nice!