I picked a good day for planting EEK !!

[HALEY]

Wow it's 87 degrees, i got 2 japanese maple trees and some roses, my dad came over and tilled the front of the house for me, so after 5 years i'm finally going to have some plants infront of my house, got my work cut out for me tonight. and it is so hot.... Why did i pick this day to plant my flowers, well i have them now so i just have to get it done....

[judy]

You're better off doing it today - it's going to be hotter tomorrow through Saturday!

I hope they come out nice.

[teri88]

I so hate any kind of yard work. Glad you got your plants, now make sure you drink lots of water while you are out in the heat!

[Gina]

I hope you planted tonight like Judy mentioned it is going to be hot through Sat... a scorcher...

[HALEY]

we'll it took me amost 3 hours of digging, soil, and mulching but got most of it done, i ran out of mulch and need two more flowers to complete it, going back to Lowes and see if they have anything orange color, the japanses maples look so nice i spaced them out and put knock out roses in between them, but i hope i dug the hole big enough they said on the direction to dig the hole five times bigger. i tryed to dig it as big as i could but that ground was so hard. so i hope they live!
i couldn't believe how expensive they were and i got them 20% off and they were still 60.00 each.. WOW...
Going to look at some dwarf daylilies hopefully they have a nice orange color, running up at lunch time.

[HALEY]

ps. it was about 100 degrees when i was planting i was sweating my butt off, so hot.... but it needed done. even one of my neighbors came over and said how nice it looked, made me feel good, now hopefully i don't kill anything, not the greatest with plants, i watered them again this morning before i came to work and i'll water them again tonight, going to do that for awhile until they get use to be in that soil... i got some good garden soil that i planted them in so hopefully they take.

[Tink]

Sounds great Haley! It's amazing what some landscaping can do for a home!
We planted a bunch of trees last year and the year before, and you're right, they need to be watered thoroughly every day for the first year at least to get established.
We planted, evergreens, Oak, maple, and weeping willows. So far they're all doing well.

[HALEY]

Tink i love maple trees and wheeping willows, i'm trying to find a wheeping willow tree but lowes is out of them until fall, and i also like maple trees but my yard is so small. don't have room for one. i need a couple of more flowers and some mulch and i'll be done until lowes or a nursery around my area get a wheeping willow tree in. it does look nice, so glad its almost done.... it took 5 years, but there was alot of inside work that needed to be done first...

[HALEY]

You're better off doing it today - it's going to be hotter tomorrow through Saturday!

I hope they come out nice.

oh Judy was it hot! and it's getting hotter with high humidity everyday.. got to get this done...

[Gina]

Haley I want to get a wheeping willow also they are so pretty. I had a beautiful lilac tree in my back yard , it was a nice size. One day I came home it was gone, my ds and husband cut it down because son had to practice his baseball pitching in my yard ughhhhhhhhh was I pissed..

[teri88]

we'll it took me amost 3 hours of digging, soil, and mulching but got most of it done, i ran out of mulch and need two more flowers to complete it, going back to Lowes and see if they have anything orange color, the japanses maples look so nice i spaced them out and put knock out roses in between them, but i hope i dug the hole big enough they said on the direction to dig the hole five times bigger. i tryed to dig it as big as i could but that ground was so hard. so i hope they live!
i couldn't believe how expensive they were and i got them 20% off and they were still 60.00 each.. WOW...
Going to look at some dwarf daylilies hopefully they have a nice orange color, running up at lunch time.


It sounds wonderful, hope you take pics! The price of flowers and bushes is unbelievalbe. My son just did his Eagle Scout project which was building a butterfly garden. He collected $500 to purchase plants and we still put money to it. He couldn't believe what everything cost.

[HALEY]

Haley I want to get a wheeping willow also they are so pretty. I had a beautiful lilac tree in my back yard , it was a nice size. One day I came home it was gone, my ds and husband cut it down because son had to practice his baseball pitching in my yard ughhhhhhhhh was I pissed..

My sister has two of them in her yard and i just love them, been waiting for them to go on sale, there very expensive, but stupid me waited to long now there all gone at lowes, i guess i'll just wait till fall when they get them back in.. i'm checking with another nursery later today to see if they have any left..
i was just on the internet looking up garden angels statues, there is this cute baby one that just looks like Micah with a chubby little face.. maybe get that next month soooo cute....

[HALEY]

It sounds wonderful, hope you take pics! The price of flowers and bushes is unbelievalbe. My son just did his Eagle Scout project which was building a butterfly garden. He collected $500 to purchase plants and we still put money to it. He couldn't believe what everything cost.

Terri there so expensive, i been waiting all summer for them to go on sale at lowes.. i missed the willow trees there all gone, couldn't belive they went so fast!

[Janet]

My sister has two of them in her yard and i just love them, been waiting for them to go on sale, there very expensive, but stupid me waited to long now there all gone at lowes, i guess i'll just wait till fall when they get them back in.. i'm checking with another nursery later today to see if they have any left..
i was just on the internet looking up garden angels statues, there is this cute baby one that just looks like Micah with a chubby little face.. maybe get that next month soooo cute....


It really is better to plant trees in the fall anyway Haley, early fall. Seems the summer heat can hurt them a lot more than the winter freeze. Just pile mulch up around them before winter to help keep them warm. We have maple trees and blue spruce evergreens. We use to have a beautiful willow tree, but the wind blew it down, barely missed the pool when whe had it. We also had a corkscrew willow, but the poor thing died. Not sure why.

[HALEY]

oh i know Janet, i been watering them in the morning and at night. pain in the butt but hopefully it will be worth it.
my Janpanases maples i anchored them suckers in the ground, there not going anywhere anytime soon..:rolleyes:

[Marilyn]

Willow trees are beautiful, however I've heard that they love water so much, they hunt it out, so be careful not to plant near your or your neighbor's sewer lines. If there is ever even a very small underground break in the line, their roots will get in there and cause a big problem. This is more a problem for older homes with cast iron sewer lines because their joints are less secure than PVC.

Sounds like you have a lovely yard now. All you hard work is paying off!!!

[HALEY]

aWW Thanks Marylin, still need to get border blocks, will do sometime next month it's way to hot. I'm trying to talk Mike into doing it.. But that's like talking to a wall somedays... I'm done for now... going to spend the weekend with my son.;)