Home Depot screwed up the order and shorted us a panel and a post-cap. We know darned well what was ordered, and we back our fence guy on that one.
On the other hand, it’s gorgeous. Everything we hoped for in looks.
The panels are up. Jane has pix—or at least early ones! There’s only one glitch…
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Now to get moss and lichens to grow on it, so that it looks like the fence grew there too!
Saw the pics on Jane’s site – the fence looks beautiful.
The fence has turned your yard into a serene walled garden.
Now that is beautiful!
Looks very nice.
The new fence and the clean up around the base of it (removal of clutter, etc) makes your yard look so much bigger and more inviting. I know that some of the intimate nooks have suffered but the overall look is stunning. I hope that you can get HD to confess to the mess up and provide the missing panel and post cap.
They’ve agreed: they pay shipping: we pay (as we should) for the uninvoiced but missing parts.
They’re really nice fellows. Just—it’s been eventful!
and you shouldn’t have to worry about painting these panels, or having to replace rotten boards, etc. Are these panels filled with sound absorbing insulation just to help cut the noise from the street?
Just air pockets.
Paint won’t adhere to it, or at least, a power wash can take it off. Which has advantages. The posts are massive, and vinyl, with grooves in which the panels fit, and a large hole belowground where the concrete goes through and provides an extra hold on the post. Plus they’re about a third again as deep as the wooden ones. So the structure depends on slotting the panels into the posts. And the gates swing on hinges that give you the whole aperture to use: our 4′ gate is really 4′ wide. You could drive a pony cart through it. This is a good thing. It’s guaranteed for 20 years.
The fence is beautiful! I am so happy for you.
There’s a free read of The Only Death In the City, part of Sunfall, for those who wish: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-only-death-in-the-city/
There is a daffodil blooming out by the shed. It was never planted there, so it must be an escapee. I find the sight encouraging, but spring will not arrive for me until my dandelions start to bloom. My dandelion jelly is not going away very quickly, so I might try dandelion wine this year as well as greens and roots for the fresh foods.
I will bet you a cookie that it was ‘transplanted’ by a chipmunk or other burrowing rodent for a winter snack, then forgotten. We have tulips popping up in all sorts of random locations, including halfway down a sheer 100′ shale embankment, because of just such relocations.
there is a woman in my water exercise class at the YMCA who has offered several canes from her lilac shrubs to those of us who would want them. I think a lilac shrub on the corner of my house in back, as well as one in front might be very nice. I’d put it near Birdie’s grave, but she’s got a very large hydrangea on one side and Roses of Sharon on the other side.
I wish the landlord from my old house hadn’t cut down the Japanese maple I’d planted on Ruthie’s grave. I told the landlady about it, but I guess the Mr. didn’t pay attention……it wasn’t a cheap tree, either…..well, maybe I’ll get another one and put it where NOBODY will cut it!
No bulbs in my gardens, yet. Maybe next spring, tulips, daffodils, crocus…. I’d like to get roses, but my favorite only comes as a tree rose. But there’s plenty of room out front for more roses.
Dunno about chipmunks, but gophers will do that! They won’t eat narcissus/daffodil bulbs, but they have an instinct to harvest them and store them in their “larder”.
I had an “infestation” of gophers a few years ago–took out 14 of ’em that summer. Now my two little plots of White Lady daffodils in the side yard is somewhat depleted, and they are popping up in four other patches.
If you get some 1/2″ or 3/8″ hardware cloth, cut a square and bend it over the end of a can, and line the hole you dig for the bulbs with the hardware cloth with the open end of the “cup” facing down, it might deter the little critters from getting to the bulbs. They don’t like the feel of the steel wires catching their claws. Plus, it’ll give the shoots from the bulb space to grow up through the hardware cloth and up through the surface. I’d recommend the “cup” be at least 3 or 4 inches tall, so the critter isn’t likely to dig under it, or pull it out of the hole as easily. You dig the hole deep enough, then backfill to the proper depth for the bulb, put the bulb on top of the backfill, press the “cup” into the loose soil, press to compact (take care not to press the hardware cloth into the bulb), then continue covering the hole with the remaining soil.
The other way is to make a basket out of it, with the top at or just above soil line. They even sell plastic baskets for this.
My mother had a story about watching a plant of some kind, in the back yard, when I was very young, shimmy and shake and disappear into the soil. Gopher, from underneath. The other story I heard about gophers and their tastes was from a manager at work, talking about the early days of plastic pipe. The first time, it was transparent stuff that worked fine in the lab, but turned brittle and came apart in the ground. The second time, it was a grey plastic that worked fin in the lab, and didn’t go brittle int he ground – but the gophers loved its flavor.
“White Lady“, I’m told, is an 1860’s era hybrid with a small yellow cup, white perianth, apparently related to N. poeticus because a bouquet can smell-up a room quite nicely. They’re naturalized out in a lawn, along an extension of an allée of apple & walnut trees, probably an entrance to a farm at my property a century or more ago. In the past I’ve just mowed around the couple clumps for a few months in the spring. Now they all aren’t likely to be spared. Maybe I’ll dig them up and pot them, if they’re not too deep!
And…MULTIVERSE: EXPLORING POUL ANDERSON’S WORLDS is set to hit bookstores on
April 30th. I have a Flandry-based short story in that anthology, with fond memories of Poul Anderson, my old conventioning buddy from the late 70’s, early 80’s.