Oh this poor thing has been so neglected!!! I've missed this forum so much!!
OK so here's an update!
- we're looking to buy a house. We're waiting on the appraisal this week, we have a sellers concession so it needs to appraise slightly higher then what we're paying. But the agent seems to think it'll be ok. If not we have no wiggle room, so they'll have to lower the price. I have never been so stressed about something like this before. I think what's worrying me is this is the only house in our area we can afford that isn't a piece of you know what. Seriously the stuff they're trying to sell around here is insane!
- so while we're waiting we're not digging anything up yet. The agent asked me yesterday when we want to move the gardens, I said as soon as the appraisal comes in. They all know we have TONS of plants we need to move and they're allowing us to do it as soon as we know we have the house. Which is great! I don't want to be digging in the snow trying to rescue all my plants!
- my health the last two years has taken a huge hit! It's so bad my HR dept asked me if it was finally time to go out on disability. wow. That came as a shock to me! My last day was at the end of April. It's been hard emotionally dealing with it. But physically I am having as easier time taking care of myself. As long as I only do something for about 30 minutes then take a break it's ok. And being home I can sleep in more, take a hot shower or bath if I feel really bad. And just let the dirty dishes sit and not care! My husband has been a saint through all this! He does about 80% of the housework, and really knows how much I love the gardens so he helps so much! Now that he's done with school he has more time, but his band has gotten bigger, so that takes up more time now too. Which is a great thing!! If you like hard rock music (think Sabbath meets Rush, meets Pink Floyd meets Zeppelin check them out! here's a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJZipCJx3Ak they did for a contest. They lost, but it was still fun! (check out all their videos!) I shoot all the videos and photos! My husband is the guitarist! Him and the drummer had an old band but the bass player/singer left last Sept. A week before their last show they found the new singer, then a week after the new bass player. They much prefer being 4 piece as they can do more complicated music. If you're on facebook please please like them! I'm trying to get them to 250 likes!!!
https://www.facebook.com/PsychicRevolution He graduated with his masters in library science this summer and got promoted at work. So he's doing quite well!
- now on to the gardens. With trying to move them I'm worried for everything! If anyone has suggestions I started a post in the hosta section but you can post here too. Here's a list of stuff I want to take with us
1- all the hostas
2- all the astilbe
3- all the other shade stuff helleborous, black snake root, if I can find them the trillium and rescued jack in the pulpit (rescued maybe illegally I'm not sure- our neighbors had tons of it and then they redid their driveway and the guys torn it all up!!!! We found them laying in the woods so we grabbed them and planted them in the gardens they're supper happy! They would have died if left) the coralbells, and a bunch of other things. The new house is damp and shady!! So I'm excited that all of our shade stuff can come and have room to be divided once they're happy in their new homes!
4- some of the sunny stuff, beebalm, lavender, purple cone flower, clematis, lilies, iris, etc
5- now the harder stuff, we have two roses I will not leave, one planted just a few months ago so it should be easy to move, the other not so much. It's been there a couple years. We plan on trimming it down. I hope that'll work. Any suggestions for roses PLEASE let me know ASAP!
6- the bigger stuff is a magnolia, which was only planted last sept (2012) so it should be ok to dig out, but the hydrangeas I'm not sure! We have 4 we want to take. Same with the one younger rose of sharon, the other is WAY too settled to dig up. I'd like to take the one lilac, but I owrry digging it up will kill it. But it's so cute, but still after two year has yet to bloom for me! I really wish I could take the dwarf lilac, holy cow that smell!!!! But again it's been there for 3-4 years and is too established to move. Plus they're not too hard to get. Also how hard is it to move holly? It's about 4' tall and 3' wide. It's fairly settled but it's something we really are attached to.
I wish we could spend some money right now, but we can't do much until after the closing. My favorite nursery is having a huge sale and they have some stuff I would love to get! We did get a buring bush for $12 though! Couldn't pass that up! I really want to see about getting a winterberry or three or four! ha ha! The house has a small plot as it's in a village, but there is a mostly dry stream on the back end where some nice things like winterberry would do well.
I'll keep everyone updated with how things are going!