THank you! I hope I am done. My friend Cindy and I went on a save the wild flower mission again yesterday and I bit off way more than I can chew getting in and out. The area is for sale for housing so what we dug up, I replanted in my woods as close to the same kind of setting as I found them. THat is how the wild purple phlox and the flag iris came here. They were digging that up and it is now a parking lot. I didn't want that to happen to where we were. So much that is so pretty and such a real part of Missouri soon to become yet more urban sprawl. I have been working a little bit each day on the area of woods directly behind me. Taking out the bad, and making room for the native. I can't change anything about anything anywhere else, but maybe at least this little bit can be restored. The apt buildings when they were built just dumped that hard pan all the way down the hill. My guess is that would be about 1970 considering how ugly these places are. Nothing in this section of woods grows as it should be, all scrub trees. So have nipped out the honey locust to make room for the few oak and walnut seedlings I see and so on. I did put one bit of sweet William on the edge by my attempt at the topiary deer. I will say honey suckle really does clean up and look a billion times better when severly trimmed. The rest I cut out. Along with that horrible woody vine.
Wish this was in my yard. IF they dig up this area we may have to rescue it somehow too. I don't think I could bear for it to be run over an piled up.
Any guesses on how old this tree was? I think it was a sycamore but I never ever saw one THIS big.
AT least that area is safe because anything they would try to put there will sink or swamp.
I made these for this friend and her friend. Wish they were in my garden, they looked really good potted up. I can attest to the fact that they survived one inch hail. Everything was outside and Hyia an I were sitting in the truck unable to get out. I thought All that work, will all be destroyed, but not a chip or a crack.
I don't think I could have anything like that here because it would most likely be stolen. Ah well. I will see Cindy's when I visit her garden. She has the tall one. I thought it funny when I took them in to Red Star to be fired because if I had to hit the brakes hard, heads really would roll.
A little of this has helped things get to growing too..mostly my heart, but you know what I mean. I think all flowers love baby laughter. Good that I get to be here for at least one more spring. I would like her to be old enough to remember what Nana's garden was all about.
Wish this was in my yard. IF they dig up this area we may have to rescue it somehow too. I don't think I could bear for it to be run over an piled up.
Any guesses on how old this tree was? I think it was a sycamore but I never ever saw one THIS big.
AT least that area is safe because anything they would try to put there will sink or swamp.
I made these for this friend and her friend. Wish they were in my garden, they looked really good potted up. I can attest to the fact that they survived one inch hail. Everything was outside and Hyia an I were sitting in the truck unable to get out. I thought All that work, will all be destroyed, but not a chip or a crack.
I don't think I could have anything like that here because it would most likely be stolen. Ah well. I will see Cindy's when I visit her garden. She has the tall one. I thought it funny when I took them in to Red Star to be fired because if I had to hit the brakes hard, heads really would roll.
A little of this has helped things get to growing too..mostly my heart, but you know what I mean. I think all flowers love baby laughter. Good that I get to be here for at least one more spring. I would like her to be old enough to remember what Nana's garden was all about.