Now no laughing, I know they're little. They were actually on sale at Home Depot and will eventually grow to 3 feet high, which will be a nice hedge along both fences. Plus, it'll be cool to watch the house and yard change with time. I know I'm not going anywhere...
And what a great day today was! I got off work this morning - we all got our butts kicked last night. 1 ATV fatality, 3 stabbings and 2 gun shot wounds. And that was just in trauma! The rest of us (I was in peds) spent all night trying to empty the ever-refilling waiting room. Anyway, I got home and slept for a couple hours and then planted all 8 shrubs on the north side. I even got the lawn mowed and the garage cleaned out.I've decided that my favorite smell of all time is earth. Especially after rain. And I really got to inhale deeply while digging all those holes. There just nothing as natural as nature.
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Ahh, you are my daughter! Nothing quite like the smell of dirt in the spring. Boxwood grows slowly; good thing you'll be there for a while. If it's heavy clay, did you mix some black dirt or peat in with the clay before you planted the shrubs? I wished I had done that with the fruit trees I planted in Iowa...lost the pear tree b/c its roots stayed too wet.
That will look really nice when they grow--block out a bit more of your neighbor's yard! I wish I had land to plant things in...
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