Springcherry

Rebecca

I looked at your blog and started laughing. Those boulders in your garden . . . I refer to them as pebbles. They look so familiar. Whenever, I dig a hole, I usually pick one or two out of the ground. It makes digging quicker, if the pebble is under 200 pounds. However, I have to replace the pebble with purchased soil. My gardens are full of those 50 to 200 pound pebbles. I'm going to build a small wall with them too in another garden.

Your home is very nice. Those rhododenrons look like they may be decades old. My mother planted one back in the late 50s and every several years, we trimmed it severely and it always came back. She finally sold the house and is living with me now.

I am out here in the Oxford area where the horse and buggy is a common vehicle.

The prices on plants are cheaper out here than in the Routes 100 and 202 area. On some plants (specifically Dragon Lady hollies), the cost may be 1/3.

When I was 42, I bought my first house in MD just north of D. C. Now that I am 56, I am in my second new house--for 1 year--and I have planted over 100 shrubs and roses since last June. I expect to plant another 100 plants and hope to finish the foundation plants by this November.