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If only it was true.
Jun. 12th, 2005 07:52 pmThis weekend was a yard clean up weekend. The kids and I cut down a forsythia bush that has been the bane of our existance for 14 years. I had also trimmed a pine tree and a japanese maple that had hanging branches that obscured a clear view of the ground floor windows. No hiding places for ner-do-wells on our property thank you very much.
The little old ladies who lived in our house before us loved to plant stuff.
Anywhere.
Anything.
In wildly inappropriate spaces.
We have removed most of it over the years and planted small, more size appropriate and family friendly shrubs in their places.
Like the pine tree that had the 6" long needles that filled our gutters and dripped sticky sap AND was planted 3' from the foundation. I kid you not. By the time we cut it down it was 15' tall. We were lucky that the thing had not cracked our foundation.
OR the other evergreens in the yard with the 1/4" needles that hurt like HELL when ever you brushed up against them not to mention the pain when you got one stuck in your foot.
OR the earlier mentioned forsythia bush that was planted on the side of the house on an 9' wide strip of grass in the front corner of the fence beside the house. This baby was like king kong, we could not get around it to mow. It reminded us of the monster in the tennis shoes from the bugs bunny cartoons. We would cut it back and it would grow back time and time and time again. Well this time it's gone for good. We cut it back to the ground and the Knight took an axe and a shovel to it and dug that bad boy OUT OF THE GROUND. Ha! let's see it come back from THAT!.
The next thing to go is a holly bush that has gotten too big for our small front yard. It is currently blocking our view out of the living room window. We keep trimming and it keeps coming back. Now it's difficult to get out of a car that is parked in the driveway. This project will have to wait until after our vacation since I don't want to mess with it just before we leave.
As for flowers they are almost non-existant in our yard. I am not much of a gardener. I have hostas out front but they are rather self sufficent so I leave them to their business. We do have a handsome avacado tree going, a couple of Basil plants in a pot and 1 tomato plant that is doing well in a pot, but that's about it.
After all this you'd think we would know what we were doing.
If only it was true.
The little old ladies who lived in our house before us loved to plant stuff.
Anywhere.
Anything.
In wildly inappropriate spaces.
We have removed most of it over the years and planted small, more size appropriate and family friendly shrubs in their places.
Like the pine tree that had the 6" long needles that filled our gutters and dripped sticky sap AND was planted 3' from the foundation. I kid you not. By the time we cut it down it was 15' tall. We were lucky that the thing had not cracked our foundation.
OR the other evergreens in the yard with the 1/4" needles that hurt like HELL when ever you brushed up against them not to mention the pain when you got one stuck in your foot.
OR the earlier mentioned forsythia bush that was planted on the side of the house on an 9' wide strip of grass in the front corner of the fence beside the house. This baby was like king kong, we could not get around it to mow. It reminded us of the monster in the tennis shoes from the bugs bunny cartoons. We would cut it back and it would grow back time and time and time again. Well this time it's gone for good. We cut it back to the ground and the Knight took an axe and a shovel to it and dug that bad boy OUT OF THE GROUND. Ha! let's see it come back from THAT!.
The next thing to go is a holly bush that has gotten too big for our small front yard. It is currently blocking our view out of the living room window. We keep trimming and it keeps coming back. Now it's difficult to get out of a car that is parked in the driveway. This project will have to wait until after our vacation since I don't want to mess with it just before we leave.
As for flowers they are almost non-existant in our yard. I am not much of a gardener. I have hostas out front but they are rather self sufficent so I leave them to their business. We do have a handsome avacado tree going, a couple of Basil plants in a pot and 1 tomato plant that is doing well in a pot, but that's about it.
After all this you'd think we would know what we were doing.
If only it was true.
