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Apr 6, 2014 8:29 AM CST
Name: Stephanie
Salem, OR (Zone 8b)
Region: Pacific Northwest Garden Ideas: Level 1
Pics look great! I worked outside all day yesterday. Endless weeds, etc. I'm so far behind on starting things in the greenhouse---worried I'm going to have to buy a lot of annuals this year that I normally start from seed, as it is getting late. And I'm not terribly motivated to spend time in my greenhouse for some reason.

I'm discovering that I lost A LOT of plants this winter. Or others were badly frost damaged. Very disappointing. We had 10 days of 15 degrees and sunny with no snow cover back in December. It did so much damage to my yard. It's really quite shocking. I wielded a chainsaw by myself a few weeks ago to cut down 15 huge (each 10 feet x 10 feet) ceanothus shrubs (mostly dead) that formed a hedge by the road. It took two dump trucks to haul away the debris. I paid some guys to dig out the massive stumps. I might do a thread to show the progression of that project. I ended up installing a bunch of new shrubs and trees. I don't dare do ceanothus again. It was an unbelievable amount of work to get those out of there. I discovered that I absolutely love using a chainsaw, however. That part was fun. Between this project and my shed project, there is little time for the greenhouse and my vegetable garden.

The light wasn't cooperating for me to get good photos yesterday. Lots in bloom though.

Here are some tulips + ribes. I like the orange and pink together.

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