Ewwww!

Good luck to you. I don't do composting (too gross for my blood) and I definitely don't do worms!

s much as i'd like to compost for my plant benefits i'm mainly just doing it to have somewhere to throw compostable garbage to be more ecofriendly

Here are some updated pictures

my lawn vs neighbor's lawn after fertilizing: its a bit greener and i used a crabgrass preemergent so hopefully no crabgrass this year. now to get rid of the clover and work on thickening the grass come fall...haha.


my porch swing my mom just got me:


front retaining wall: on the upper side i have some phlox, white cupflower, blue mazus, and stargazer lilies planted inbetween them. i plan on expanding it further back and adding in a bonfire patio peach in there



added a little more to my front bed..my tulips out front seem to be dying for some reason. i think some of my fertilizer may have gotten on them


the side of the front bed with the (what i believe to be) a clematis and my large crepe myrtle. still a work in progress.



work along the side of the house...its getting there! now i just need to get grass to grow...i have some bare root hostas growing in there somewhere, haha


bleeding heart


the back side of the house where the stump is growing. planted some hostas and a couple of azaleas. the wildflower mix i planted is also coming up quite nicely. i'm not sure what the little green shoots coming up are but i remember them being there last year.

Wow, I'm jealous! Everything looks lovely, I especially like the bleeding heart!

I think your stuff is coming up better than mine.

Looks great! I really need to get some sod down, I hate our sandpit in the backyard!

You need to add a molded snake head to that tree stump with the root running along side the house it could look like a boa constrictor.

Here4thePics wrote:

You need to add a molded snake head to that tree stump with the root running along side the house it could look like a boa constrictor.

you know...that is a really cool idea! i never thought of it, hah

Huskyluv wrote:

Wow, I'm jealous! Everything looks lovely, I especially like the bleeding heart!

I think your stuff is coming up better than mine.

you planted a lot of bare root stuff though, right? my bare root hostas are struggling..i only see two that are doing very well. four i can't see yet and two im hoping made it through the couple of frosts we had

Everything is looking so good! i love your new porch swing. im on the hunt for a backless metal bench....

snrose wrote:

you planted a lot of bare root stuff though, right? my bare root hostas are struggling..i only see two that are doing very well. four i can't see yet and two im hoping made it through the couple of frosts we had

Yes, I did a lot of bareroot and bulbs. And we had frost on the ground not even a week ago.

Some stuff is growing well, others are showing no signs of existence. My bareroot hostas are struggling due to the damage that the caterpillars did. I need to snap a few update pics and update my thread with the progress.

my only bare root hosta that is visably doing wonderful!



another picture of my bleeding heart. i think they are just too cool!

I just love your Bleeding Heart! That is soooo pretty!

Your Hosta is coming along very nicely too!

corkscrew willow i planted in the backyard for a shade tree and eventually privacy from the neighbors:


my weeping cherry out front is in full leaf: also a before picture of it to show how much greener my yard is now that spring is here. its so much nicer, haha



i cleaned up and mulched the other front bed: any ideas as to what i should put in the bare empty spot? i'm not sure what that stick growing in the back is so i'm going to let it go and see what it is and if i dont like it i'll take it out

One of our local nurseries was selling some of those bushes / plants with the droopy white flowers. They also had some mature plants in their own landscaping. I liked the look of them, but wondered what they will look like for the rest of the summer. I didn't even take note of the name. Yours looks nice and you'll have to show us another pic later in the season.

the weeping cherry out front?

No, that bush-like plant that's in the picture to the right and front of the plant you call a stick.

ohhh, the hellebore. i posted a picture of it on gardenweb and i was told its a very nice specimen! after googling pictures mine is huge. it stops blooming once it gets hot i believe. its a winter bloomer

here are some updates for today:
lily of the valley plants growing in a bed out back:


my good sized rose bush out back is starting to bloom


i thought i killed my rose of sharon after i planted it but it seems it has survived!


trying to figure out what this tree is..any ideas?

Not sure about the tree but looking good!

snrose wrote:

these cute little plants are growing in a bed out back. i'm not sure what they are yet:

Looks like Lily of the Valley to me.

yeah i just figured that out and edited it lol

You're lucky, I planted a bunch of Lily of the Valley bare roots and only two of them are making very slow progress. The rest are not showing any signs of life at all.

Do you know how long to wait on planted bare roots to show signs of life before throwing in the towel and taking them back to the store?

i wish i knew...i have no clue!! out of 8 bare root hostas i planted only two are growing sooo...i'm kind of in the same boat. these lily of the valleys are very well established already as they have spread EVERYWHERE!

If you have a few good-sized plants from all the bare root plants you planted, I would surmise that the ones not coming up did not make it.

Looking good, Shannon! I saw a big, purple clematis bloom while walking today and wondered if yours has bloomed yet!

SabakaMom wrote:

I saw a big, purple clematis bloom while walking today and wondered if yours has bloomed yet!

no blooms yet will let you know when it hopefully happens!

SabakaMom wrote:

If you have a few good-sized plants from all the bare root plants you planted, I would surmise that the ones not coming up did not make it.

Thank you Lisa, that's what I was suspecting but didn't want to dig them back up prematurely. Going to make some returns for sure then next week.