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20 years ago

No one gardening topic. Just gardening stuff on my mind today.

I have a daylily blooming today that I swear I never bought, traded for, stole or planted. I know this because I haven't put in any new daylilies in over 15 years. This daylily is beautiful. It's small - like my butterscotch daylilies - but it's pink-salmon with a chartreuse throat. It has darker pink along the edges of the petals. The shape of the petals is beautiful. Is it possible that a daylily seed took root over the years and produced something this pretty? Where did it come from? Anyone else had this happen?

Rant about dogs. I love dogs. I don't mind if someone else's dog wanders into my yard and lifts a leg on one of my plants or does his business. I don't mind if someone's cat digs in a flower bed. Dogs and cats are more valuable than plants. BUT I have a neighbor who stops by when he walks his dog, and he doesn't reel in the leash. He lets this sweet dog roam at the end of a 20-foot leash and doesn't pay attention to her. Yesterday she jumped in my day-old new raised bed and decapitated my columbine and squashed down the bed. He didn't pay the least attention. Then she tried to attack the dog next door and trampled the jack-in-the-pulpit I've been raising from seed. It was so tiny and still in a pot and she stepped right on it and killed it. I don't mind dogs and cats, but that jack-in-the-pulpit was more valuable than that neighbor. I want to compost him. Thanks for letting me rant.

Comments (4)

  • 20 years ago

    I love my neighbors cat, but I think she either killed or ran off the bird that had a nest on the post of my porch. I found her out there one night and after seeing flies in the nest box and taking it down and finding a dead chick (plus some orange cat hair on the outside...) I asked if she would keep her in the house at least during bird nesting season.

    Plus her cat drives my cats crazy. Mine stay inside or in the fenced in yard.

  • 20 years ago

    Sugarhill, there is an "obliviate" in my area. He "gardens" through his weeds and his house is a disgusting mess. Never cuts anything back, flower or weed. Stuff grows all over the sidewalk (other gardeners seem to get citations to keep it cut back, he never does). Worst of all he lets his dog run all over and crap all over neighbours gardens. Both while he is "walking" (meaning standing around) with his dog, talking to neighbours with his dog...or all over our church gardens and property. He never picks up the dog crap.
    Finally I got really cheezed off with him. It takes a LOT to make me fly off the handle. I freaked out because it's enough for us to have to take care of all our disabled people at church. I don't have time to pick up someone elses dog crap when I'm worried about a human ... so I let him have it. He had not one iota he was being a total jerk. Completely oblivious.
    So tell your neighbour. I'd probably be nicer than I was, personally, but tell them that their dog should not be on your private property thank-you very much and explain what damage it did. The guy I yelled at didn't even realize that it is not very nice to have to mow over fresh dog crap!!
    You have the right to ask people to keep their pets off of your property. I have a cat that roams quite a distance although I try to keep her in our yard. I would certainly respect anyone who asked me to keep our cat out of their yard. Luckily everyone loves her chipmonking and rat killing abilities!

    GGG

  • 20 years ago

    GGG, thanks for idea (and I love the word obliviate - it describes him perfectly). I don't mind if he brings the dog by when he's walking her. I like the dog a lot. All I'm asking is that he retract her lead from 20 ft to 6 feet so she can't roam so much. I'll ask him again before I tell him no more visits with Biscuit. But you got to know that this about him. His wife came home one evening last week and asked him where his car was. He said it was in the driveway and she said no it's not. He didn't even stick his head out the door to look. He just assumed she was mistaken. His car had rolled out of the driveway, across a neighbor's yard and 200 feet into the woods before it landed in a ditch. And he didn't find it out until he went out the next morning to get in his car. So I don't have a lot of hope about getting him to listen.

  • 20 years ago

    Sugarhill, that is crazy that he didn't even know his car rolled across a neighbor's yard! The least you can do is hope and try. Maybe he chose not to listen to his wife because she's his wife...sometimes people are more responsive to people they're not so close to (or even total strangers). Good luck.

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