tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900544.post1541566787619555243..comments2024-02-04T20:25:58.971-08:00Comments on How's Robb?: All Around the Mulberry Tree...Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03932975112078606231noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900544.post-51939468172595533282011-09-09T13:59:59.879-07:002011-09-09T13:59:59.879-07:00Salamanders can regrow their tails.Salamanders can regrow their tails.Karen Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13306986336556283751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900544.post-88230367948209456272010-02-14T20:27:20.902-08:002010-02-14T20:27:20.902-08:00Perhaps put a nice looking wood fence in front of ...Perhaps put a nice looking wood fence in front of the ugly one?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09771903098619469478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900544.post-77772163000667943372010-02-10T13:53:34.860-08:002010-02-10T13:53:34.860-08:00KAY
GINKO FRUIT SMELLS LIKE ROTTING VOMIT.
DON&#...KAY<br /><br />GINKO FRUIT SMELLS LIKE ROTTING VOMIT.<br /><br />DON'T PLANT ONE!<br /><br />NO!<br /><br />NO!<br /><br />NO!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900544.post-6822317511928606632010-02-10T13:31:37.954-08:002010-02-10T13:31:37.954-08:00Thanks for sharing the pictures and dreams of your...Thanks for sharing the pictures and dreams of your yard - it's lovely - and will be lovelier! I also enjoy the view of "somewhere different" - we have an actual Blizzard Warning out right now! I had to read the weather report to find out what the technical definition of a Blizzard Warning is (snow and wind combo).....<br /><br />We have a very large mulberry tree on our property - at the top of one of the pastures, where it provides lots of food for lots of birds - but doesn't bother us - that's a good place for it.<br /><br />We have an apple tree that's almost - but not quite - as ugly as your mulberry tree. If the blizzard of today doesn't take it down, then we will probably have to remove it this summer. It's falling over, and the apples are horrible (though Rosie the rabbit loves them). We are going to replace it with a ginkgo tree or three. We have some growing in the "nursery area" and they are one of my favorite trees.<br /><br />Oh, and speaking of ugly - and I would never had said it if you hadn't first - your backyard fence..... in the immortal words of Will Smith in "Men in Black"....."Damn".......<br /><br />Thanks again for sharing!Kay/The Little Foxeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06438560270883028887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900544.post-42742239865061607962010-02-08T15:28:34.661-08:002010-02-08T15:28:34.661-08:00speaking of jasmine and brutality, I heartlessly a...speaking of jasmine and brutality, I heartlessly annihilated the one in my yard yesterday. I'm normally patient with flowering vines and just try to re-route 'em and give them a haircut, but it was getting into the house. Creeping tendrils had shoved between a window and the brickwork and made their way not only into the shed (1900's privy, now capped and full of trowels) but pulled the cast iron gutter clear off. Yay renting. The owner has been lenient with the nightmare plant for too long--it's grown along and through a hedgerow 10m long, wound round a fat holly, and has a strong hold on the back fence. I cleared out the whole area next to the shed and discovered it's concrete, which is disappointing for planting but I can put some potted vegetables there (it may be a good parking spot for portable pots, which may be good seeing how the weather is completely berzerk this year. It snowed Again today. In London!)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04164548989072633998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900544.post-46717585220751274042010-02-08T12:19:45.462-08:002010-02-08T12:19:45.462-08:00OH MY GOD!
I love doing back yard fix ups, and li...OH MY GOD! <br />I love doing back yard fix ups, and literally started hyperventilating when I saw the photos of your yard! You have SO MUCH potential its crazy!<br /><br />I would immediately say "wha hoo!" that you tested your soil and it's ok. it seems impossible to me, but great. You have incredible options with the use of large oversize outside mirrors you could mount on selected walls, in order to achieve the illusion of larger space. Even if you just make sure to have climbing ivy grow on a flat form to create a sort of ivy wall illusion, and put an arched way formed mirror in there as well to create the idea of a pathway to another "room".<br /><br />I would immediately put bamboo, or wooden fencing up against your "worlds ugliest wall" or plant arbortvitae (they do eventually grow to 5 feet in depth, however). If you paint any structures it could be light-colored to reflect more light into the space, if you want it. It reminds me of different backyards in Baltimore I got to work in, and the comfortable casualness of it all is very appealing. <br /><br />Trellises will add a few more spaces for things to grow on, you can just stick to growing veggies on them until you decide on a permanent plant- like grapes.<br /><br />It also looks like you have a LOT of thinning out to do- be brutal, and I suspect your remaining plants will do great.<br /><br />I will always regret not having a pink flamingo in my yard. <br /><br />AnnalisaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900544.post-36620731493553488252010-02-08T06:50:22.896-08:002010-02-08T06:50:22.896-08:00It's SO good to see the color green! Thanks f...It's SO good to see the color green! Thanks for sharing - we didn't watch football either, but were holed up indoors.Melhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12078359338331712659noreply@blogger.com