This was a rhododendron. I think it's fairly dead. I don't know what I did to it that made it not like living in our yard b/c I watered it and caressed it and whispered sweet nothings in it's leaves but hopefully I can find something to replace it that likes me and is willing to stick around for longer than a few months. Maybe I'll even fertilize it!!! Talk about a commitment-phobe!
Here is what used to be a viola I planted last year. Either it just didn't survive the winter or a squirrel dug it up. Or maybe it hated me too and committed suicide. Either way. I'll have to get something else to replace it.
And here is part of our front yard. The old owners used to have a random and very badly placed circle of tulips and mulch here. We tore it up and grassed it over. However some of the tulips just. won't. die. Come on! I kill things I don't want to die and I can't get rid of things I want to go away! So the hubs is very graciously going to dig these suckas up and I'm going to try to replant them in the back yard. Here:
Yes, I need to move the extra lumber that has been sitting there since last fall from our deck building. But once that is done I'll have plenty of space to plant whatever plants I decide to buy (read: torture and kill)! I'm sure once the tulips are moved to where I want them they will finally die. Such are my shitty skills in gardening. Irony is a bitch.
And while I am replanting these things that will soon die, Wade will be working on our ghetto fence! He'll tear this sucka down and replace it w/ a glorious fence of cedar. It will be grand. I cannot wait.
So my friends, what do you all have planned for the weekend??? (I should maybe mention that in between all of the plant murdering, and who am I kidding, probably during it all, I will be drinking b/c let's face it, alcohol makes everything better...) Have a Fabulous Friday Fruitloops!
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you might wanna work on that whole gardening thing.
Hey! I have piles of lumber too!! I will take a pic and post it on my blog..and give a shout out to ya!!! People with ghetto backyards need to stick together!!
Gardening without a pitcher or 3 of margaritas would just not gardening properly.
I've been trying for five years to kill the hordes of daffodils that the former owners of my house had planted around the front. It's not going so well...
If plants would rather kill themselves than grow for you, you have issues. Your backyard should not resemble Where the Wild Things Are
I am horrible too...Hub has the green thumb. My weekend will prob be similar to yours....hope yours is great!
My dog likes to dig up flower bulbs and eat them.
It's a good thing too, because my house is a bachelor house and flowers look gay.
Not that I can plant anything anyways, because the dog digs them up and eats them.
Maybe she was at your house? She does like to escape sometimes.
At least you have a yard! I kind of want to leash train our kitties since we don't have one... is that completely retarded?
bhaahah!!! you are so funny and you have some exciting plans for the weekend! i don't exactly have a green thumb or a black fist, somewhere in between!
hope your weekend is fab. countdown to booze. today has sucked ASSSSSSSSSSSS but a little patron (OR A LOT) and some beer might make it better. :)
So I think I'm going to risk it and plant a rose bush. Poor thing! Any words of wisdom to share? How are your newest additions doing? :)
Ok, you and your husband seem ridiculously crafty. I'm very impressed.
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