Ding Dong the Peonies are Gone

 They are beautiful.  But, mine were in the way, cutting an odd line across the backyard.  Oh, I am sure years ago when a pool was fenced in there they made a lovely hedge row, but now they stand as a random wall in the middle of my yard. 

They had to go.  The temporary fix of mowing them down would not do.  For the last week I have dug and dug those 15+ old plants out of there safe bed.  They did not want to go.  I told them about the lovely sun filled hill they would be going to.  They simply would not believe me, and as I look at their root balls sitting in plastic trash bags I do understand. 

They will wake up in a happier place though. Where they will be allowed to grow free and people will look at them and say "How lovely" and not "Why did you put those there?"  I did keep a few plants, in places where there color and fragrance will be welcomed and admired.  A memorial to the past.

Now I just have to make sure the ants aren't going to revolt and storm the house.

I atttack the evil garden gnome

Hi,

I'm new this is my first blog ever and that means it is more than likely going to be awful. Thank you to all who happen to show up your patients is much appreciated. ( as is spell check you do not want to see how that word looked a minute ago)


I live in a pleasant little house on a pleasant little half acre.  Now some of you are giggling and some of you have very wide eyes.  A half an acre can be as big or as small as you make it.  Mine is huge, gangling and it has teeth.  I like it not. 

I fight for the future hope though, a beautiful space for the tea parties of my childhood and the golden years yet to come.  There are those that would Thort me though, the gnomes that bumble and break up my ground the faeries that  bite and pinch as I step out of my doors and the great green creeping beasts that pollute my grassy lawn.  Ivy I name you and you will die. 


Incidentally any one in the metro area want pink peonies free to a good home.