Yes I just don't know what I have added ...Many of them are named and I would have go "goo gle" them to find out what they look like. I will wait for the surprise next year... Here are a few shots of "Lily Valley". We have added so much last fall and early spring...we just didn't have time to take pics and enjoy them.. The Allium in bloom.. Spring 2018
Thanks. We didn't do much with our gardens this year as we had many other major jobs to do preparing for hubbies retirement so the gardens are full of weeds and overgrown common and rarer plants. Soon we will start from one end and move stripping the weeds and cutting back what needs to be done. We have such a large area we just drive the jeep with our large trailer and pile it all in then take it all to the neighbors compost pile. We have Franklinia trees and Paulownia and tons of large grasses some get 10 feet..We cut them down to the ground every year...
I bet this is one major help ...I've got addicted to grasses and planted 4 pampas grasses this year supposed to be all pink and have come in light pink besides cream, so i'm well delighted but 10 feet they must look stunning.
Oh yes. I put my chicken poop in that pile every week..He lets it sit and sells it sometime in the future...LOL It's a win win thing....LOL He has hundreds of acres and has certain areas to put things. As long as I put things in the right place he likes it. He also puts on roofs nicely...LOL All our neighbors help each other...I give eggs to the elderly ones and they give me any part of the cow, that they slaughter. Whatever I would like...one year I just took tons of bones to make bone broth for canning...Another neighbor digs hole for my BIG plants that I buy with hos small backhoe...Another one fixes my car...It is a great neighborhood..
Hi Barb, anything like that here in the UK you would have to lumber down the local skip, neighbours here are nothing like you have and regarding farmers they don't like outsiders entering their lands...they would most likely do it amongst themselves but outsiders offering I thing it would be a definite NO.
I love it where I live. We are near larger cities and of course NY is just 1 hour away, but I am a "country folk" and this place is close but not too close. We help when needed and have the advantage of kindness when in need. We have farmer families who have been here from the mid 1800's. Even though I never lived here until 12 years ago, my mothers family lived in this very town in very early 1900's. They were in business with some of these same families who I know today. They had an ice house business back then and shipped large slabs of ice out to NY by rail. It's not all beautiful in this town but it is my favorite place to live. I take my chicken poop to 2 local neighbor farmers. One in summer and nice weather times and the other is a farmer family of 3 generations. They get it when I can't get into the first place because of weather. Getting stuck with this Jeep and large trailer, loaded, is not a funny thing...I also give free eggs to one of those families and another who has the most wonderful flower gardens that you can see on a highway every year. They are in their 80's and I just like to give back to them. They have given us their beautiful flowers to watch every summer for over 50 years now so what is a couple of dozen eggs each week until they are no longer with us...I love it here...
It sounds glorious and the family farmers here, lots of them have had them through generations down, as lords hold the land but years back they worked the land and paid taxes and then some got sold the land they worked and that's mainly how they became family businesses. You area sounds lovely how you explain it and how you are with the elderly couple bless them besides you doing their plants but like you and many others you have to be born to the land to totally understand how it works. Oh it sounds lovely and peaceful
