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Moving Our Trees And Plants FIRST!

Category: Wild Birds & Daylilies ~ BJ's Blog | Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:22 am

We have a new home about 44 miles away and we're finishing up moving this week. For the last two weeks we have been dead tired taking our greenery to our new place and planting them. On this trip is where I got hooked on daylilies. We pass a beautiful daylily garden every day and guess what!!!
Plants for sale!!! Stopped and bought my first daylily, the coral Siloam Tiny Jewell. Took it straight on to our new place and planted it. Yesterday, we were in Walmart, and wouldn't you know they had a good buy on Colorado Blue Spruce. Got to the register and it was even $3 more less. What a buy. Hubby Ed planted it right away too. So far we have moved and planted 3 Wintergreen Boxwood (last one to be planted today, had to keep them watered real good), 3 azaleas, a Clump River Birch, (right now there's a wild brown bunny outside my window in the old flower bed nibbling, I'll miss him.), panseys, 4 yellow forsythia (last two to be planted today), white rose, red rose, 3 Nikko Blue Hydrangea that may not survive as our mowing person cut them down and all that was left was little sticks and roots, white Jet Trail Flowering Quince, Lavender Chiffon Rose of Sharon. You can tell, Walmart had a great February sale!!! Loved it! Oh, we also got an Arborvite 4' like a Christmas tree, maybe. Good thing yard at new house (revived very old farm house on Main St.) has a long wide front yard and there were only 2 Rhodendren there. So, we're really having fun!!!. Plenty of space left for my daylilies and local outdoor birds. Last nigh we were coming back around midnight and there in the dark was a tractor-trailer stopped in the road. We thought maybe a wreck. But when we finally got to move, they were black-topping the country road. Our 44 mile trip is all country road and sooooo dark.
Taking something again today. We had hung 4 waving petunia baskets on the front porch. Red, peach, purple and one with red, white & blue. All need shorter new petunias added to the middle section. The red, white & blue was especially pretty.
Tired and anxious!


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Comments

 

Droopy wrote on Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:23 pm:


Moving is hard work, and moving with plants is even worse! Good luck with the transplanting. I hope they'll all grow and prosper for you.




 

eileen wrote on Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:10 pm:


I'll keep my fingers crossed that all the plants you're taking with you survive the journey and flourish in your new garden.




 

Sherry8 wrote on Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:20 pm:


It is so much work to move...I had trees planted the first day we signed the papers...Good luck with everything. I love daylilys too..not many I don't like.As for the rabbits, we have been trapping and relocating them. I hope they don't find their way back. Three in one week is a record for us. I relocated the last one in a closer wooded area because of the gas price. Still far enough to make sure he won't be back...Happy Gardening..Sherry





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