Landscaping

[pequa1]

Neighbor has had her cactus for at least twenty years in Matzohpizza. Hers in bloom now too.

 

[wader]

Im done hate this chit mowing the lawn is a sweaty night mare

so pay someone to do it for you................

 

[cany]

so pay someone to do it for you................

If I had your money to spend I would

 

[wader]

costs me $25 a week - you spend more on cigarettes

 

[cany]

costs me $25 a week

Like I said if I had your money I would

 

[wader]

Like I said if I had your money I would

how much you spend on cigarettes or whatever you're putting in your lungs?

 

[cany]

how much you spend on cigarettes or whatever you're putting in your lungs?

Your the one always complaining your on a fixed income too me thats lust lazy or you got plenty of money too spend

 

[wader]

1 - I don't complain about it
2 - I probably have no more money then you do I just choose to spend it wisely & live in an affordable location for the amount I do have

If you were like me when I was up in NY - you probably spend around $600 a month on cigarettes
(2 packs a day @ $10/each).

Do your lungs a favor. Give 'em up & you have plenty of money to get the grass cut & other things.

 

[wader]

And please dont tell me your helping the onacock economy by hiring someone to do some thing our too lazy to do after all your retired and have nothing to do

guys who cut my grass don't live in Onancock & I hardly think $100 a month is fueling anyone's economy but obviously you're wound up - so I'll leave it there

 

[Chevy1]

How hardy are they?

They are native to Long Island super hardy one of the few no maintenance plants

 

[BennyV]

They are native to Long Island super hardy one of the few no maintenance plants

Wow never would of guessed

 

[Roccus7]

Neighbor has had her cactus for at least twenty years in Matzohpizza. Hers in bloom now too.

Not sure if it's still there, but a house on Rocky Point Landing Road had a huge prickly pear garden in the front yard. I was amazed how neat the flowers were...

 

[wader]

As the Season Progresses:

 

[pequa1]

Nice Wader !!

 

[wader]

As Season Progresses - Part 2

I had this half dead fugly lookin' Gardenia Bush in the backyard when I moved in here 7 years go. I've plotted to have it removed at least a 1/2 dozen times but just never got there.....

For whatever reason it began responding this year. Growing larger & greener.

And now - it's sporting flowers. Very, Very Fragrant Flowers. I can smell them all over yard. Being tobacco free for 2.6 years helps with that I'm sure.

Instead of plotting to get rid of it - it seems to have now taken a permanent spot in the yard providing it keeps going.

 

[wader]

Part 3

Some of you gardeners maybe familiar with a plant called Lantana. Down here it grows as a perennial. Completely gone during the winter it is dead from the ground up. In the spring it begins to regrow from the roots. i had planted 7 of them in little 4 inch pots 3 years ago against a post & rail fence along one side of the driveway. Not in the best soil.

It had been part of an asphalt basketball court that runs under a large section of my back yard. Whomever installed it didn't bother to remove it but instead covered it over with about 4 inches of soil & left it there. I had to jack hammer out a 3 X 20 section of it & create a raised garden bed. Ground below the bed pretty much consists of gravel, small stones, some soil.

The roots on these plants are incredible & grew right through all of that.
They are great in high sun areas & are very drought resilient attracting TONS of butterflies. They are in direct sun for at least 10 hours out of the day. I don't do anything for them once they were established - not even watering them. And they grow & grow eventually growing taller then the fence they are in front of (about 4 feet) )only to completely disappear each winter.

The original 7 plants are now at 11 through self propagation & I've given at least 2 of them away to neighbors every year. Great plants that flower all summer, require no care & are excellent for high sun, no care areas.

1st picture is about 4 weeks after they came through the ground this spring.

 

[BennyV]

Part 3

Some of you gardeners maybe familiar with a plant called Lantana. Down here it grows as a perennial. Completely gone during the winter it is dead from the ground up. In the spring it begins to regrow from the roots. i had planted 7 of them in little 4 inch pots 3 years ago against a post & rail fence along one side of the driveway. Not in the best soil.

It had been part of an asphalt basketball court that runs under a large section of my back yard. Whomever installed it didn't bother to remove it but instead covered it over with about 4 inches of soil & left it there. I had to jack hammer out a 3 X 20 section of it & create a raised garden bed. Ground below the bed pretty much consists of gravel, small stones, some soil.

The roots on these plants are incredible & grew right through all of that.
They are great in high sun areas & are very drought resilient attracting TONS of butterflies. They are in direct sun for at least 10 hours out of the day. I don't do anything for them once they were established - not even watering them. And they grow & grow eventually growing taller then the fence they are in front of (about 4 feet) )only to completely disappear each winter.

The original 7 plants are now at 11 through self propagation & I've given at least 2 of them away to neighbors every year. Great plants that flower all summer, require no care & are excellent for high sun, no care areas.

1st picture is about 4 weeks after they came through the ground this spring.

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gotta get me some

 

[wader]

gotta get me some

don't know that they'll survive up there - Sister-in-law took some back to LI last year - didn't come back - although at the rate they grow that's probably not an issue - 4'' pots down here are like $7

 

[pequa1]

internet search says that besides being quite toxic, they are only annuals in northern states.

 

[movetheboat]

any good deer repellents to stop them critters from eating flowers and stuff???