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Gardening here in Auburn, Alabama is predominately leaf raking and taking to the ever present leaf pile!  I have a lot of oak trees in my yard and the leaves have been falling at a great rate.  It seems as though I'll never get them all raked up and in piles down at the end of my lot! 

What's going on in your garden?

Sue

Sue, I can relate to your oak leaves dropping now.  Before I moved to this condo 37 years ago, I lived where I had 60 oak trees on the lot.  It seemed half of the leaves dropped in the Fall and we'd have a foot of leaves on the ground, and the rest dropped in the Spring and we'd have another foot of leaves on the ground.  Tom worked with the youth at his church and he'd have them come to the house, rake the leaves onto a drop cloth, then haul them across the road to an unused area of the Township cemetery.  We only lived there three years, not because of the leaves but probably because of the water softener.  Where we are now, the condo assn takes care of things.  Of course, we pay for it in our monthly fee, but it is nice it is not my responsibility.  Enjoy yourself.

Tom told me yesterday that he had driven by that house and at least half of the trees had been taken out.  Too bad, in a way, but it makes easier mowing and raking.

Mary Ann

Hoping :-)

I have just secured a gardener but earliest is two weeks, grass is overgrown already...never realised what they charged...something i had never needed to worry about before when i had my Richard...I ordered myself a " witches " corn broom for the leaves outside my kitchen side door part of the patio area...

Not sure anyone will read since it has been well over 4 years since this topic was active - to start a fresh topic I do not even know how and so I will post and see what happens - trying to find out if any of y'all had ever planted after the holidays their Norfolk Pine - this is the third year I've received one as I guess a replacement for a Christmas Tree - I use it as a house plant for a couple of weeks and last year I forgot to water it so it dried up and the first year I do not even remember - since I don't have it something woe begotten happened - this year there is no pointy top - it almost looks like a large fern or palmetto and I thought I would plant it in the back where I need more 'things' growing - have any of you ever planted one and if so what kind of success did you have.

I see/saw your message, but I'm of no help about a Norfolk Pine. I'm not familiar with them, but if I got one I would try to keep it alive till Spring, then plant it somewhere outside.

Hmm suggesting Spring had me do a bit more research and evidently these Norfolk Pines that are in the grocery stores and places like Home Depot at Christmas time are actually not Pines at all - some kind of tropical something or other from New Zealand - they do not tolerate temps below 50 which actually works here except for the very few times a norther comes through and the temps are then mostly in the 20s and 30s and some years we have a real cold front with temps in the teens however if we do get that kind of cold front it is usually for only a couple of days and maybe twice in one winter...

Soooo it says to me to do this would be better planted in a large flower pot since they are slow growers and that way it could be brought inside using some kind of wheely when a front comes through - or I may just plant the thing and put out a couple of tall stakes that could become a frame using plastic in the few weeks of winter we do have. If it dies it dies since I have not been successful keeping them alive indoors. But then if I'm planting realizing there is an 80 to 90% chance it dies why go through all that work hmmm need to think on this a bit more... I really don't love the thing only I hate to see a live plant hit the dust after only a couple of months...

Water it moderately until warmer temperature and then plant it outside. They are hardy plants but now the sudden change would kill it.

I received a small one in a pot when my daughter was born.  I planted it in the garden after a year and it thrived. Three years after we moved to another town and I decided to take it with us since it was my "daughter's tree". It was about 1 1/2 meters high.

Now, 45 years later it reaches the 4th floor of our building and still growing!