Impulse buy - regrets already...?
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Comments (81)Once I made a deal with a neighbor like that. I dug up her whole garden. Mind it it was HUGE. But at the end, when I removed all the tulip bulbs I could find, she poured them into two separate, equal sized containers and gave one of them to me. Half of her all of her bulbs became mine... She wanted to get the bulbs from her property because they have started to disappear and not to flower anymore. When I dug up everything and moved everything around, even though I removed ALL the bulbs I could see, the lot was full of blooms following year. She also planted her bulbs in new areas on her property by just digging a trench and pouring the bulbs in there not caring. I, on the other hand, planted them all around the house in perfect lines one by one for tedious hours. I could not believe my eyes next year. There were varieties, colors, shapes that we have never seen before in her garden. I was so glad that I spent a week with digging in her garden. I was a kid... Kids do things adults wouldn't do anymore. I don't know if I'd go out and dig a garden 2 feet deep for bulbs for a week in the middle of Summer. :o) Hell, I am not even willing to walk the dog... I became so lazy that it hurts. :o) But I run downhill to the mail box when my bulbs arrive and drag it up with me. If it were an amaryllis lot full of bulbs, I would probably dig though. You only dig them when they start to withdraw, so it is the time around now. The weather is great. No scorching Sun, no burning heat. Then plant all my bulbs in front of the house. :o)...See Moredo any of you.. have the willpower to walk by an impulse buy???
Comments (39)Don, easy prey, hmmmm, does that mean..... (and I know you'll appreciate this)......(are you ready?)..... I must get a PREYING HANDS? Ohhhhh, my goodness. Terrible terrible. I showed him the one which came south with us, a division from his over 40-year-old green with white margin one, which he over the years divided and populated the entire town of Chelmsford MA with. It had a white margin, I promise you, when we dug it up to move down here. But now, I see only a faint trace of the white. What happened to it, I wonder? Undu.Albomargin. last May 2012 Undu.Albomargin. in August 2012 I was calling it Undulata Albomarginata, so now what is it? And NO, I have no willpower. Absolutely not. Last night, I fell asleep with Don Rawson's list of fragrant flowered hosta on one side, (marked with the ones I already have), and the Hosta Finder on the other side. I made a list. Some on Don's list are not available in the HFinder, but enough are that I can make up a couple more orders this spring. After all, I'm not getting any younger, and I better get em while I can remember the roots go DOWN. :)...See MoreImpulse buy!
Comments (11)I can totally relate to the impulse buying/orphans-needing-good-homes mentality. I did the same thing at Walmart today only with a serrano & a cow's horn. They both looked so sad & neglected that despite having waaaaaay more peppers than one person could possible need, I purchased them. I've got them repotted into containers that are placed around my flowers as well....See MoreImpulse Buy
Comments (2)I have 7 Parade and Palace mini roses, all purchased from grocery stores and Walmart. They are the hardiest, healthiest, and most bloomy roses I own. They are on a south facing wall getting reflected Arizona heat blasted at them all day long, and they deal with it tremendously. The only issue I have had with them so far is that I planted them too close together and today I discovered a few spider mites on one of the plants, way deep in the thorny foliage. Anywhoo, none of my full size roses have even shown a bit of the gumption that these guys do, and I plan on getting many more in the future to put in the backyard. All of my mini's were impulse buys too, and I just came home with 2 more yesterday, so I have 9 now. As a side note I have only had one die, and that was one I bought at Mother's Day for my neighbor, and she underpotted and underwatered it, so it bit the dust....See Morerifis (zone 6b-7a NJ)
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