My Country Corner

[...] I have never been resolved to wait up for him. Instead I like millions of other must trust my garbage cans to stand by the road to represent the family. It is so sad, the one  day of the week we [...]

[...] (filamentosa) Adam's Needle     It the time of year I look forward too. The yucca plants are in bloom with their huge columns of snow white bells. My yucca plants are a gift from a [...]

[...] early spring  everything has continued to bloom almost a month earlier than normal. The yucca plants that normally bloom around the Fourth of July have already done their show for the year. Right [...]

[...] much smaller with little problem. The most attractive feature is it's ability to grow in partial shade which in truth can be fairly heavy shade. This is a very  slow growing hedge that is [...]

[...] full sun light for best blooms and drainage but this pea gravel trick allows me to use them in partial shade with other plants. Most bearded irises bloom once a year, however growers now have produced [...]

[...] feeding early in the spring and a slight trim it is almost maintenance free. It will grow in partial shade , but has better color and performance in full sun. It is hardy from zone 4-8. This shrub is [...]

[...] with the leaves branching out from the root in a fan shape.  Yucca Plant -Full Sun to partial Shade Zone up to zone 5 [...]

[...] first little Princess with the idea that others would soon follow. It sits in a huge square of pea gravel that is about 1 and a half feet deep. The outer edges are protected from the lawn by ancient [...]

[...] bed and it does stop weeds. All of my irises planted this way are planted on a raised mound of pea gravel or sand with a much thinner layer of mulch over top just to make the bed look even. The [...]

[...] white breast. Her nest is in the pine trees of the wind break. The other one nest in the apple trees on the north of my property. Every evening they try to drive each other off the open [...]

[...] The war against Japanese beetles continues here. I did my part. It was a bit late for the apple trees and the pussy willow, but I did save the leaves on the birch tree and most of the [...]

[...]           I have noticed there is no fruit on the apple trees or the mulberry trees. I think all the plants were effected by the late frost. I don' [...]

[...] of the week. They do not seen to like the locust trees, but they sure love the taste of the apple trees and the birch. They even started attacking my Hibiscus. The hibiscus has not even thought about [...]

[...] ever in all the years I have been here I have never seen any bird build  a nest in the locust trees. I think the branches are to limber, and sway to much with the wind.     & [...]

[...] rose to 103 degrees.  We was lucky to have a small breeze blowing through the locust trees. It turned out to be a small crowd this year. Most of the kids have grown  and [...]

[...] .  I have been spraying  most of the week. They do not seen to like the locust trees, but they sure love the taste of the apple trees and the birch. They even started [...]

[...] ;                  (Iridaceae)     Bearded Irises are one of the show stoppers in any garden. Their broad sword shaped leaves offer great [...]

[...] have bloomed. They are the ones that hug the ground at just six inches tall. Now the mid-sized irises at 12 inches are beginning to finish up blooming. A few of the old fashion tall [...]

[...] or how thick the flower beds are in that area. The foxes have gotten them all. The litter of kittens Rosie had in the thorny Barberry bushes was not even safe.    I have been rather [...]