Diversionary Tactics

Well last Friday we went out to dinner and then stopped by a club for a while. Guess we arrived home around midnight to a dark house. Neighbor had power it seemed so after stumbling about a bit getting candles and flashlights I headed out back to the breaker panel. Well it was easy to find since all the wires leading up to it were hanging about a foot off the ground. Appears a storm passed thru and broke a branch off the oak. Our giant staghorn fern tumbled but survived. Guess the branch ripped out our power, cable and phone line when it fell. Took out our neighbors too. So the weekend plan changed and I cleaned up a big mess. Sadly we had a really neat hybiscus tree get tumped over as well. Dug it up and replanted it but had to slice a major root. Only time will tell, but it isn't happy so far.

Well at least the pup had some fun! Lots of nice fresh wood to chew.

Finally A Doghouse

Well Cutter finally got his wish. It's even got a refrigerator. Too bad about the Gator colors and he never found the door. Saw a few wings and decided better safe than sorry. That's what the contract is for, right? The lil buggers might have just been passing through, but now they are ... deadurzzz.

Can't believe these Plum Perfect daylilies are blooming about 2 weeks after planting. That's a pleasant surprise. (http://www.paradisegarden.com/)
Hope we can get the fence covered with these ultra cheap vines and shrubs. Grow baby Grow! Nice grass there, blechhhh.

Plant of Attack

The front was looking a bit too bushy. Lots of azaleas and stringy impatiens. Huge, but stringy. Even the african (bulletproof) iris are a bit overgrown. To me it looks better from a distance than up close-up, so it's haircut time. Attack one-half at least. Found ye trusty ole hedge trimmer and went chopping. Doesn't look to swift with the long impatiens poking up, but we left them in case everything croaks. Plus we are after a few cuttings. After the trim (or whack job) we just pulled weeds and vines for a long, long time and finally found some dirt again. Well, maybe not dirt, but better than white sand.

The first clump we replanted is hopefully going to be orange. We chose online orange crush daylilies and from local stores a Mexican something or other and some little orange flowery bushes. C'mon and grow, c'mon and glow!

The second area is purple and blue (hopefully) fading to white in the rear. This was done with some online purchased plum purple daylilies, impulse purchased hydrangeas from Costco of which one immediately appears to have croaked from the sunshine. The bushy purple/blue jobs are backed by an existing azalea (color unknown) flanked by a couple gardenias. Should smell nice. Oh, someplace we hope to sneak in a few special black iris I found online. Hope those do well. Time will tell what works, or survives. The vines are pervasive and we probably need some type of mulch. But it should be to our liking if it all works.