I wanted to warn everybody to check your pots and pans. If yours have handles that are not BOLTED on, be very careful. I have a 2 qt saucepan that I got years ago. Fortunately the HANDLE CAME OFF while I was washing it. Just separated without warning from the body of the pan. Thank goodness it did not happen when I was lifting it full of boiling soup or something. This was an inexpensive pot from a company called Cook Time (made in Korea); stainless steel with a copper clad bottom. I probably bought it at Kmart long ago.
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Getting some more things moved around in the garden. Whew! What a lot to do! It's funny how, as I'm drawing up planting plans "Hmmm...that can go There, and that will look nice THERE..." it seems so easy. Like putting together a jigsaw puzzle or something...a brain teaser, but not hard. Then reality rears up and slaps me in the face in the form of a shovel, tough roots, and heavy clay *HA*. But the work is moving along. I've got planting holes dug for two large yuccas that I want to divide from the clump by the driveway. I'm working my way down the Driveway Bed, doing the fall tidy. As soon as I reach the yuccas, I'll dig out a couple nice ones and transplant them to the new South Border.
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I've decided to make what used to be Auxiliary Garden into my "Tropical Garden." Every year, I tend to move around the big colocasias and cannas, etc., but now I think I want a more or less permanent area for those sorts of things and this newly cleared off spot looks pretty good. It will make a dramatic entrance to the Asian Garden. This spring I put in a lot of colocasias and cannas, but it was all pretty much random...I had an awful lot of roots and nowhere else to put them. But, it came up looking really nice, so that gave me the idea to make it more permanent. The idea now is to move in some truly perennial plants that have that "tropical" look so that there's something interesting in the early part of the year, before the true tropicals can even be set out. Today I got a nice deal on a couple of those dramatic black leaved red-flowered hardy hibiscus that look like they should be growing in Tahiti. I put them in just now; in the next few days, I've got a very overgrown rhubarb that needs divided, so portions of that will also go in there. I've already put in a couple clumps of tall Miscanthus grass. Just by chance a very nice Rose of Sharon has come up there; it's about 4 years old and I pruned it very high, like a tree, mostly just so I could work around it when I was getting the old fence out. It looks good, so my plan is to plant 3-4 more in this area, also pruned to tall tree shapes, to provide some early interest and late summer flowers...pinks and lavenders. Tomorrow I'm going to take some tall bamboo canes and stick them in the ground where the ROS will go. I find this is a good way to get an idea of placement. Lots easier than "eyeballing" it, planting something, then realizing it's in the wrong place.
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22 months: Braces are off. I have a nice straight smile! I was so touched: my orthodontist gave me a lovely little floral arrangement when I left the office.
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