Can't Give It Away

Last weekend, WS was doing a project in TAFKATFTS (the area formerly known as the fruit tree slope), and I had to get a bunch of phlox out of the way. The phlox has spread to a line of about 5 feet wide, from where it was originally planted (3rd picture down - and that is last year's pic). So, I pulled and cut of overgrowth for quite some time.

I placed the phlox (no soil) into large plastic pots, of which I have dozens from various plant buys. I gave four of those to the neighbor across the street, I planted two of them in other areas of the yard and I sent Cop Car two  (15 pounds worth in those two pots - okay, subtract a bit for the box, but you get the idea).

I have been keeping the pots in the shade, and keeping them moist (Mother Nature did that for me most of last week), and they are still nice and green. Yesterday, I borrowed a table from the neighbor, and placed the remaining 5 pots on it next to the road:

 

Not a single taker. I have never put anything at the side of the road (usable stuff goes to the swap shop), but heard that it always works - not this time. Fortunately, Karen came by last night and took two off my hands for her daughter. The rest sat out in the rain last night and the signs and instructions are probably total messes that no one can read. I guess worse comes to worse, I can bury them out in the mulch pile out in the woods (where they won't root).

On a different note, I got blooms from a rose I picked up earlier this year, and which has been sitting in the planter on the railing by the front door. It gets enough rain there to keep watered, but not so much that it ruins the blooms (as the rain has done to most of the roses):

  My fingers show how small the blooms are - well, only if you know how small they are. So, for those that don't posses that particular knowledge, the blooms are about 1.5" in diameter. And all the blooms in that picture, are off one spray - it is loaded with sprays over the entire (small) plant.

And this isn't quite a garden picture, but this was in the sky on Friday evening:

  The Hillsboro Balloon Fest is this weekend (fireworks went off last night but we dind't stay to watch because of the torrential rain).

The clouds are supposed to lift this morning, and we should have another beautiful day.

Comments

[Cop Car]

Thanks for the phlox, Bogie, and thanks for this posting. Now I know that I should go ahead and open the box, even though I'm not ready to plant, and put the containers out in the woods (and keep them watered). This I can do as soon as I leave the computer! I hadn't wanted the phlox to dry out, so had not yet opened the box. I should have known that you had containerized the phlox. You think of everything!

[Cop Car]

(I'm berating myself for having so little faith in one of my daughters, both of whom I have advertised as being perfect.)

[Wichi Dude]

On the Phlox; put a price on them...like $1 and someone will "steal" them for you. Seen it happen TONS of time: FREE - still there, $$$ - GONE.

[bogie]

Apparently someone (cough)Cop Car(cough) doesn't read my emails which explain how I potted them. Or maybe, in her dotage, she has lost the ability to read and now needs pictures? :)

WD - now that might be the ticket. When we got back from riding last night, one more pot was gone, so I am down to 2.

[Cop Car]

Ehhh, your mother wears army boots!

[bod]

it's the same in my neighbourhood bogie. both myself and a good friend have left stuff out for people to take and no one does. wichidude makes a very good point, if you make it look as tho soemthing is actually required for the items, they go, pronto!

[bogie]

I got rid of one more pot of phlox; the other two pot sit forelorn and neglected in a shady area of the yard. I can't quite make myself finish them off - but if I don't water or turn them (for access to sunlight for the lower parts of the pot), then maybe they will expire on their own.

Or, maybe I'll figure something else out for them today.