A brickyard will charge you top dollar for new bricks. You can sometimes find them much cheaper at Habitat for humanity. Drive around your neighborhood and you may see some stray bricks laying around or stacked against someone's house. People sometimes keep them "just in case" and then forget about them for 37 years and may let you have them for free. I drove through a neighborhood one time and found a stack by the street with a sign on them that said "Free to a Good Home-Must take all". I had those babies loaded up in a snap. Drove home dragging tailpipe, but hey-they were free!!!! If you look for them, sometimes they will just find you.

Check in your area for plant swaps too. Sometimes you can find someone who has a bunch of bricks who would love to trade them for some plants, or pots, or even in exchange for help with gardening chores. People love to barter and everyone goes home feeling like they got something for free. Cheryl

Try looking on craigs list under free stuff . I always see people giving away free bricks

I would use the native stone as an informal edging, but that may not work with your design. Since you are breaking ground, I bet you have a rockpile somewhere âº

Pam

i have been keepin' my eyes open when i'm out and
about, so far no luck, but i'm hopeful

there is a habitat for humanity store in conroe, and
i do plan to be up that way later this month, so i'll
check it out, thanks!

i wish i had some native rock, not very rocky here in
this part of the state, and so far, i haven't found
a one, i'm green with envy when i see a garden structure
that someone has made from stone harvested from their
very own property

tesa

You're welcome to my rock. Just dig about a foot and you'll find tons of it here. You could also try freecycle.org. Also, do you have a rock yard nearby (I guess that is what it's called--here they sell mostly to builders for houses and landscaping. I just take my truck and get a half or a ton of rocks--yes, I know I have it in my yard but it's too small.) anyway, my friend went to one and looked on their clearance pile and got some for about 9 cents a pound.

How long did it rain? That might be too much rain to drain off quickly. I don't know how much I got, but it was a slow soaking rain and the ground is pretty saturated. I have a raised bed under a tree that is still pretty muddy. It stopped raining Saturday (I think).

Also, is that a normal amount of rain? It is just wetter in the spring. I want to plant something in my drainage ditch along the fense, but I'm going to wait until it is done draining for the season--I'll do annual vines.

it rained for two days, and we got 2 1/4 inches

i live in a fairly wet part of the state, average
of 32 inches a year for us

haven't been back to the property since sunday, but
on sunday, it was saturated!

furthur up the road from our lot, there are some
wild sometings growing in the ditch, i'm waiting for
them to bloom, but the foliage looks like maby iris, or
something??

strappy, grass lookin' stuff, maby a foot tall or so,

we are the first folks to develop on that street, so
its really virgin land, so i'm almost sure no one
planted those, well, mother nature did, but no humans

i had mentioned to husband that if those bloom nice,
i want to dig some of them up

tesa