well my sleepy little homestead has a bunch of new plants to go in the ground. 6 Red Knockout roses, about 12 little rose of sharons, 1 big rose of sharon, a large azelea and a lilac...
the knockout roses and the azelea look a little sorry for themselves, they have been allowed to get very leggy and so are mostly sticks with some leaves ontop, BUT thats easily fixable in both cases.
the lilac is a single spindly twig BUT theres plenty of tiny little suckers around the base that tells me the whole thing should fill out VERY nicely when given the right love and attention, again its been left to get tall and spindly.
the rose of sharon starts all look fairly healthy other than the fact there in small pots and had been left out on a black top drive in full sun for a few days.
the whole lot cost me some time and gas money and $20, the knockouts at walmart for this size (and in just as sorry looking condition...$18 a peice... ao $108 worth of knockouts, all ofwhich i should be able to take plenty of starts off in the fall after their final bloom and have plenty of baby knockout roses to plant (and mabe even sell come spring)
the azelea is a 5 gallon plant minimum, about $60 at lowes for this size, in this condition probably worth about $40, the lilac is a 2 gal size, about $15 worth of shrub and the rose of sharons the 12 little ones about $6 a peice at walmart and the ig one is a $30 plant, all in all about $265 worth of plants. not bad for my last few bucks available for the month (ialso picked up milk and a newspaper for the goosey brooder so i SHOULD be ok untill payday now (going to ask the neighbors if they have any newspaper too, its working better than the shavings and straw were so i think this will be my method of choice now...i just put a new layer down every few hours then pull it all out and start a new the next morning...if i can get my hands on free newspaper itll be set to go
got the 6 roses planted, taking a little while before heading out to get everything else planted and then ill give them a watering after the sun starts to set.
gotta figure out where all the rose of sharon are going too LOL.
th knockout roses needed full sun so i planted them on the front property line between me and neighbor infront. i need another 2 to fill in the last little gap there, but once it fills in it should look beautiful!.
ill buy some rugosa next month to plant down the property line between me and side neighbor as rugossa will grow quite happily in part shade or full sun...and then ill need some shade lovers to fill in the spots that get pretty much only very light dappled sun. next spring im hoping to get enough starts to continue the knockout roses along the other part of the front property line before it hits the privets. and ill plant all kinds of cutflowers and bulbs along infront of the roses to fill it in.
the climbing rose thats currently being consimed by long grass is going to get dug out...thats going to get moved into my back yard to grow up the side of the laundry room, ive got climbers on the other side of the deck too so it should balance out nicely (and im hopign eventualy that the back of my house can be sconsimed in climbing roses...how pretty would that be?!) the lilac is going over int hat area too, im eventually going to have a pond set up in that zone so the lilac will provide some shade in mid sun on the water where im plannint on planting it.
Whew...its hot out LOL.
missed the post office though, keep forgetting it only opens for 1 1/2 hours on saturdays 9-10:30 so electric bill will go out on monday instead, itll still get there ontime but still. grr, arg.
anywho, going t check my email then go do some more planting
So, I didn't even bother to look for chocolate chips. I knew I'd just eat them. 
