When we moved to this house 3 years ago, the previous owner had spent hours and hours and Oodles of money planting beautiful flower gardens ALL around the house. It's clear that most of her time during the spring and summer was spent within these flower gardens. We bought the place and have been trying to kill them ever since.
Today we had a landscaper out to take a look at 2 of the trees the previous owner had planted. This year they really took off and are QUITE large. I'd take picture but I'm too lazy to walk down and do that right now. They're both less than 8 feet from the foundation of our house. . . one in the front. . .one in the back and they're huge. Of course our fear was that the prior owner didn't research them properly and that their root systems were out of control, possibly posing a threat to our foundation.
Thankfully, while they are large. . . . .the specialist told us today they're no harm to our house. In fact, they're almost topped out in size, which is great. Apparently the one in the back of our house would "appraise" for about $2,000 right now. I didn't even KNOW trees were appraised. Interesting. Bill said "let's sell it!". I don't think that's quite how it works though.
This guy also said we have WAY too many flowers in our flower beds. He said this is a VERY high maintenance yard. . . . .the kind that people invest ALL their time in. He does this for a living, is a gardening NUT, and he doesn't even have HALF the crap we have. No wonder the people that lived here before us didn't own a TV. They didn't have TIME! They were either working on the flower beds, or cleaning the house. I have a hard enough time just cleaning the house.
Guess we'll start saving up to have someone come rip it all out. Do a whole new "re-design" and turn our flower beds into something manageable. That sure will be nice.
Now I just need a rich relative to kick the bucket. . . . . . .
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First root canals, then tree roots (& flower)...sounds like a root fetish to me. Da sugs new digs had no flowers; due to da in-laws, it does now. Trees on the other hand, I've cut them back or down everyday that I've been here and there's only another years worth of work to go. Good thing there's a fire pit.
PERENNIALS - just plant & forget, save for an annual trimming.
They ARE perennials. . . . .the thing is there are HUNDREDS of them, they're too big, and they're overgrown with weeds. One day (early in the season) I spent 3 hours weeding and only weekend about 1-15th of the beds. . . . only to have the weeds return a few weeks later.
I'll take pictures of them for my peeps. You then will see my anguish.
I've got a kick ass lawnmower.
22 horses. Let me at'em!
girl... where's the race report... i've been checking all day!
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