#195498 - 03/24/08 04:46 PM
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Bestofour
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My daughter lives in Milledgeville, GA where it is unbelievably hot and dry. She wants to landscape the front of her house with something "other than bushes that just stay green; that don't die in the winter and nothing that gets too big." These are my instructions.
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#195713 - 03/25/08 04:40 PM
Re: Help needed
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Bestofour
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They're not in a drought just constantly have dry weather. The place gets full sun most of the day. Right now she has little boxwoods that she's going to takek up - she doesn't like them. She also has crepe myrtle trees - they seem to be everywhere down there.
She would like something with more texture than plain green. Plants that don't get too big and she's not home a lot to care for them much. Any ideas Joclyn?
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#195801 - 03/26/08 04:49 AM
Re: Help needed
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suzydaze
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she can plant almost anything, I like hollyhocks for a tall in the back and usually do some more short up front, cosmos are good for a middle folwer and then usually to that bed I add marigolds to the front for short, plus they are there til frost.
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#195838 - 03/26/08 09:44 AM
Re: Help needed
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Bestofour
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She sent me a picture put I can't figure out how to get it from her email to my photos to post it.
Anyway, picture across the front of a house. She doesn't want a flower garden. She wants some type of greenery with some color - any color - that is low mainteance. She doesn't want it to get tall say like my hollyhocks do. Cactus might be a good idea. I'll throw that out there.
Maybe I can get this picture thing to work.
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#195839 - 03/26/08 09:44 AM
Re: Help needed
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Bestofour
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She will add a few annuals occasionally.
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#195874 - 03/26/08 12:34 PM
Re: Help needed
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Bestofour
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Thanks joclyn. I'll have to wait until I get home but I'll do it. You're a life saver - well this isn't actually life and death - but thanks a bunch.
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#195949 - 03/26/08 05:15 PM
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Bestofour
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You can't tell but her front yard sharpely slopes toward the house. They're putting in a french drain to divert some of the water.
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#195954 - 03/26/08 05:34 PM
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neko nomad
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A flowering quince or two would look nice by the entrance, but away from the dripline.
This is a closeup view; it grows to three feet tall.
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#195955 - 03/26/08 05:39 PM
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dodge
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#195960 - 03/26/08 05:51 PM
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neko nomad
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The ones I'm familiar with, the landscaping sized ones, didn't have fruit; the orchard quince, though, looks like a pear but stays hard and is too tart to eat. May be the same with the flowering species.
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#195965 - 03/26/08 06:03 PM
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dodge
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#195980 - 03/26/08 06:35 PM
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neko nomad
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It's not mine,Dodge; It was the best I could immediately find on Google, and it appears deceptively large from being photographed up close to detail the flowers. Here's a better picture I had on file- again not mine- and is more typical.
I'm too far north to have one,unfortunately.
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#195982 - 03/26/08 06:41 PM
Re: Help needed
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suzydaze
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I like the marigolds they stay pretty til frost if you dead head
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#195983 - 03/26/08 06:43 PM
Re: Help needed
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Bestofour
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I've got a flowering quince. It's pretty.
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#195986 - 03/26/08 06:47 PM
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Bestofour
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Mine is the same color. I don't think it comes in different colors. I emailed the picture to my daughter.
Seeds for the money plant? Thanks. Do you want some of mine?
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#195992 - 03/26/08 07:05 PM
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Bestofour
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I think marigolds smell bad too but they keep bugs out of the garden.
Don't you like the money plant after the flower dies back. They're good to use in decorations.
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