I've been meaning to throw a little bit in here about my ever-growing Crape Myrtles.
I'm sure you all remember when I planted them back in May of 2009 in an effort to conceal our neighbors collection of crapola.
You did remember? You are cool like that!
May 2009; just little twigs!
I have good news! Our trees have been growing and so has my neighbors collection of crapola!
I'm kidding about the crapola. It may have actually diminished some. Or maybe that is my eyesight that has diminished.
June 2010
All 20 of them are alive and well!
July 2012
They don't look that huge in the photo...but a few of them are over 8 feet tall. That means they are 6 feet taller than me! And they bloom beautifully...I hope I bloom one day as well.
When does puberty start? I must have missed it because I think mental-pause is creeping in.
And by mental-pause, I mean I want to strangle most everyone I encounter.
So, do you want to come over and see my trees? Or are the photos good enough for you?
I'm just kidding about the strangling part.
Mostly.
No really. I only felt the urge to strangle anyone/anything last week twice....and that was when I saw Christmas decorations/displays being set up.
Seriously.
I can feel the Christmas anxiety creeping in.
If you need me, I'll be out with my growing green-ness, sweating profusely and avoiding red mixed with green, silver and gold!
Seriously.
I can feel the Christmas anxiety creeping in.
If you need me, I'll be out with my growing green-ness, sweating profusely and avoiding red mixed with green, silver and gold!
I do remember when you planted these! They look very pretty!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, what an absolutely and utterly beautiful yard :)
ReplyDeleteLove the crepe myrtle's! Our neighbor gave us three a few years back and they grow like weeds in our area. Would love to come over and see your trees, just no strangling and hide the shank first - please. :-)
ReplyDeleteWell, of COURSE I'd love to come see your trees!! Then we could go choke some Christmas-display-making lunatics together.
ReplyDeleteThanks to my unemployment status, I haven't been doing much shopping (that, and the fact that I've been in Italy for a few weeks! tee hee!) but I'm sure it's happening here, too. Grrrr! At least knowing that will probably keep me from doing any unnecessary shopping, right?
I do remember that post! I have a white crape myrtle in my front yard. It's 16 years old!
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I didn't even know you were only 2 feet tall. Now I love you even more than I did before. : ) You know how I feel about little people. I love, love, LOVE them.
ReplyDeleteMe..me! I remember when you planted those. I had no idea it was so long ago. But they are growing..and very pretty! Christmas decs really bother me...I'm talking to YOU, Hobby Lobby! : )
ReplyDeletewhere did you see christmas?!?!
ReplyDeleteso are you weeding toady? or starting that new garden :)
The photos are spectacular, but no, they're not good enough. I need to come over as soon as possible!
ReplyDeleteCrape myrtles are my favorite. I threatened the yard guy with bodily harm if he touched mine when he trimmed the bushes. I think he was scared.
ReplyDeleteSorry. Still sitting her drooling all over your banquette.
ReplyDeleteI planted a cedar hedge to block out my neighbors crap (I call it crap because it is worse than crapola). Sadly, cedars grow slower than the movement of a glacier - wish I could grow crape myrtles in our little corner of paradise :>) or better yet - I wish you were my neighbor!
ReplyDeleteChristmas already? I'm still offended at the Halloween displays :) You definitely have a green thumb!!!
ReplyDeleteI thought you wanted to SHANK people. You've changed your ways! ;)
ReplyDeleteSuz, your myrtles are absolutely lovely - and they look happy. Well done!
Lovely and I think you're allowed to strangle ANYONE who starts talking or showing Christmas stuff in September. It's a law I think, or if it's not, it should be. ;)
ReplyDeleteVery pretty...and I am sooooo healous of your back yard!
ReplyDeleteI guess it makes sense . . . the kids grown, the trees grow!
ReplyDeleteI do remember when you planted those trees!! 8 feet tall already! Ahh that fabulous FLorida sunshine is some good growing weather:)
ReplyDeleteWow, would you look at those beauties! Amazing what a few years can do! I'm afraid I'm on the other end of the blooming process. More like fall. Geeeeeesssss, I look at myself in the mirror and gasp!
ReplyDeleteMental pause! ha ha
ReplyDeletePerfect name for it.
I often feel like throttling people too.
Not you tho'. I remember those trees too. God we go waaaay back eh?
:D
Crapes are great, what will you do when they go dormant in the winter? I only felt like strangling one person this week, so far.
ReplyDeleteThe crepe myrtles are looking good!
ReplyDeleteI believe I, too, suffer from mental-pause. The pausing happens more than the going, some days.
My goodness, you have a beautiful yard! Will you come help me landscape mine? :)
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