Subject: Re: Subject: ubject: Subject: Re: Subject: flowers, >Vera

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Vera,

That is so funny! I bet you did keep your Dad wondering! It's amazing

what we remember and what we did as kids. Maybe that is why no matter

what our own kids did we were very prepared for it! hehe

God bless,

Belinda

> > Bill:

> > Most of the ground is taken care of now with peat moss and other

> things that

> > will help it grow. I've got alot of roses around the wall and

they

> seem to do

> > just fine. As for the azaleas , I've never had any luck with

those.

> I've

> > planted them and I killed them without even trying. I have gotten

> the hill

> > planted with pines and rosemary. That seems to be doing well ,

but

> it took

> > alot to find what would work up there on it. Thing here also is

we

> don't get

> > much rain, so we have to fine things that will grow without much

> water.

> > That's why I went with the rosemary on the hill. It doesn't take

> much water.

> > I guess you've been stuck in the mud at times also, huh? One

time

> when I was

> > young , my brother was watering the yard next to the house, I

don't

> know if

> > he hit a air pocket or what, but that hose just went right into

the

> ground.

> > Never could get it out, had to cut it and leave almost half of it

> there. That

> > was strange.

> >

> > Take Care

> > Vera

> > ******************************8

> >

> > Subject: Re: Subject: ubject: Subject: Re: Subject:

flowers,

> >Vera >

> > Belinda

> >

> > Vera, Bulbs don't do well in clay at all (we also have triassic

> clay) it

> > takes tons of peat moss, leaves, sand and bone meal to make it

> suitable for

> > bulbs. A roto tiller after you mix all that together helps

also.

> But I used

> > to dig a hole and put the clay into a wheelbarrow, then mix in

> leaves (rotted

> > ones are best), peat moss, a small box of bone meal and about an

> eighty pound

> > bag of sand and chop it all up with a shovel. If I was planting

> azaleas, I

> > would leave out the bone meal and try to find all the oak leaves

I

> could as

> > they are best for azaleas. Put lots of clay in your compost heap,

> it really

> > turns to good soil faster there. We never had much luck with

roses

> in clay.

> > Ferns do well in shady areas. Rhodadendrums do well in our area

if

> they are

> > on the north or east side of the house also. Take care, Bill

Werre

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