Happy Long Weekend

By Skeeter
The Saint and I finally got the Flag Pole erected in our Georgia Garden! It was delayed due to a little mishap back in Nov. Click Here to read that fun tale. Thank you so much Mom and Dad B for giving us that beautiful Flag and Pole! I plan to one day add a little planter around the base of the pole.
Here is a July Surprise in our mailbox planter! I did not plant one of those flowers in the planter! I added fresh dirt from my compost bin last fall and look, free flowers! I have been wondering what to plant in this planter as everything I have tried fails on me. I hope these Susan's will reseed themselves and be there for me each summer.
My little woods bunny's hope you have had a wonderful HAPPY LONG WEEKEND celebrating the 4th of July, In the Garden...

Note: We are out and about enjoying some R&R with family so I will chat with you later...

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Look before you Dig

By Skeeter Such a bare spot in my Georgia Yard! (garden hose is stretched out to water sod in the front yard) This side of the house is a normal route for deer so we don't have much growing in the form of gardens in this area. The Saints parents gave us a Flag Pole (Thanks Mom and Dad B) and we decided this would be a good spot to install it with a small planter added at the base in time.
Normal procedure, is for me to pick the spot and the Saint digs the hole. This time however, he chose to argue my spot and move a bit forward. Okay, whatever, just dig the hole and lets get this chore knocked off the "To Do" list will ya!
Ah, the trusty Post Hole diggers are a perfect tool to dig a hole to install a tall pole.
As you can see, my soil has Georgia Red Clay in this spot of the yard. Another reason why there are not more flowers planted on this side of the house!
The Saint was having a tough time getting through the Clay but managing until he hit this root. Argggg, not a root but rather the Cable TV to the house! Oh no, we forgot to seek out where the cable could be running through the yard. We had to laugh at the fact that we have 2.5 acres of land but hit the cable with a 6 inch hole! The Saint made a quick supply trip to town for a temp repair so we had TV for the evening. The cable repair people came to the rescue in a timely manner with the final repairs. Now the trusty Pick Ax and Flat Shovel came into play to cover the cable. With all the clay in the area, the Saint had a time getting the cable buried into the ground.

The rains started to fall since this incident thus, not allowing for the Flag Pole to be installed as of yet. Stay tuned for more on this saga.

Hum, if only someone had kept to his job of digging holes while letting someone else pick the perfect spot for a hole to go, then maybe, just maybe..... Well, honey, that's okay, you can dig a mean hole and cut through anything with your strength!

Moral to the story: Listen to your wife? Na, LOOK BEFORE YOU DIG, In the Garden...

Flag Pole Garden

Posted by: Lola

A couple years ago I had a problem that needed to be solved. My lovely azaleas had begun to die. Actually about 4 in total have met their demise. This area needed some help. I first put in a flag pole. Then I tried planting flowers but that didn't work. The soil was not ready. So I began to remove the grass and add amendments to the soil. These are some of the plants that I began to add to this garden.

The second picture shows how it looked in 2008 at Halloween. Not very pretty I must say.

This picture shows the Flag Pole that was added and also the bird bath for our feathered friends. At this point the garden was taking on the shape that I had envisioned. I planted some Iris, Canna Lillies and Snow Bells along with the Day lilies and glads that were already there.
After I had gotten to this point I started to add some mulch as I finished the garden. You can see the "hole" that was created from the azaleas dieing out. I took advantage of this situation to place an article, that a friend had given me, into that "hole". You can see the article in the second picture.

It is a flower pot holder that looks like a chariot. So I tucked it into the "hole" that was created. It helped to cover the bare spot that would have looked strange otherwise. Notice the "stands" I mentioned in another post!!!
This angle is looking South. You can see the front and backside of the garden. Not finished with the mulch yet. These Castle Rocks help keep the soil in the bed. If it rains a lot like it has this Spring, I would have lost a lot of this rich soil had the rocks not been there.
This is looking toward the point where I stood to take the picture above. This is the front part of the garden. See the pretty Iris"Royal Thunder" that is in bloom!!! Poor little Gnome sitting on the rock with his hand up to his ear trying to hear what is being said. lol
This is a view from the back side of the garden after all the mulch has been applied. I think it turned out pretty good.
This picture is looking straight on to the garden with azaleas beyond.
Other plants can be added as permitted. I do have a couple in mind.

And as all gardeners know work is never over.........

In the Garden.