Filed under: Cash for Grass | Tags: butterfly, cash, grass, habitat, lawn, neighbor, pickaxe, property, roots
There is a strip of lawn between my driveway and my next-door neighbor’s that is about 12 feet wide. While working with a pickaxe on the grass removal in the main part of my lawn, which is getting increasingly difficult due to the many thick roots as I get nearer the tree in the middle of the yard, my neighbor came out to see what I was up to and to suggest that I stop swearing loudly in front of the neighborhood children. I explained the project, and suggested that when I get to the driveway strip I could take out the whole strip out between our driveways instead of just my half, and include it all in the project, if he would chip in for the additional rock.
He is “thinking about it”, which I interpret as wondering if it is safe to say “no way” directly to a mentally defective neighbor who is swinging a pickaxe around while ranting about accursed butterfly habitats.
Filed under: Cash for Grass | Tags: cash, crepe, grass, myrtle, plants, roots
We had a small crepe myrtle in the front yard. I have no moral opposition to this particular little tree, but it does not fit with my exciting unplanned mental picture of native plants. It is 7 years old but has not grown much or done very well, so I decided to try to move it to the backyard.
I found that the roots were all tightly wound around the original base, like the lawn never penetrating into the surrounding clay and rock even after 7 years. Clearly the tree does not belong there. I guess that’s why it always looked shabby. It came right out of the ground with little effort, almost as easy as taking it out of the original 10-gallon pot. I replanted it in a much bigger hole in the backyard where I hope it will be happier, if it survives.
- Myrtle in her new home
