Retaining walls solve many landscape problems
One of the most cost-effective and dramatic improvements you can make in your landscape is to define your planting beds with retaining walls. Landscape walls can “tie together” your foundation plantings and extend your home visually, enhancing its value and making maintenance easier. They can solve landscape problems such as slopes along the foundation, bringing plantings up level with the house for a more professional look. You can also use them to visually “link” outlying beds such as driveway entrance plantings with the rest of your landscape.
Discovering the benefits of food from God
When it comes to avocados, not everyone’s face lights up like mine. I used to wonder what those ‘things’ are. I didn’t know how they were prepared, much less how they tasted. Never did I imagine I would rely on them so much one day!
Births
The following birth was reported by Grady Memorial Hospital:
Creeping phlox is a colorful carpet
One of the first signs of spring is the colorful billows of creeping phlox in light blue, white and all shades of pink, creeping along rock gardens and slopes. Creeping phlox is a hardy, dependable groundcover plant that is widely used to suppress weeds on hard-to-mow slopes.
Is pebble mulch answer to low maintenance?
Homeowners who want nice landscaping, but dread maintenance tasks like weeding and mulching, often turn to pebble mulch as a solution. Pebble mulching is the practice of covering landscape beds with weed barrier fabric and then spreading a few inches of pebbles or decorative stone. Stone mulch has been widely used in commercial landscapes for many years, simply because, at least in the beginning, it discourages weeds. Wood mulches need to be renewed every year, but stone mulches can last five years or more before they need to be refreshed.
Helping others after tornadoes wreak havoc
“Mom, the phone is for you, ” Julia said handing it to me.
Slumber parties, grief and prayers
By Gloria Yoder
Births
The following birth was reported by Grady Memorial Hospital:
Proper shearing multiplies shrub blooms
If you have flowering shrubs in your landscape, now is a good time to give them some “tough love”. It’s easy for you to double or triple the number of blooms on your flowering shrubs. All it takes is regular shearing once a year, particularly when the plant is young, along with regular feeding. There’s a technique to doing this, and a reason it works so well.
Births
Emerie Lee Morrison, daughter of Katie Martin Morrison and Jessica Morrison, was born at 9:51 a.m. on March 12 at Marysville Memorial Hospital.
