Im giving a museum a facelift!

[DREDIOCK]

I forgot to trim our BF bush early this year.  It's getting too big.  It's located at the corner of our yard next to the neighbors driveway.  I know they can't see traffic coming down the road.  I was worried about trimming it now, thinking it might ruin it for the year. 

Drediock, you think it'll be OK to trim it back about a foot all the way around?  Right now it's about 6 ft tall and 5 ft across?

Sorry I didnt see this sooner.
Yea, should be no problem. I did the same (forgot) and trimmed mine back as well. Its done fine. in fact I've trimmed it again to shape because parts of it were overhanging  my walk way.

Like I said. the nice thing about BB is they are like forsythias, they grow like weeds.
The bad thing about em is...they grow like weeds LOL

[DREDIOCK]

Idea for ya.
For some early spring color try some columbine. Wickedly pretty plant that tends to reseed itself and then dies off just as everything else is coming into bloom

Pictures dont do it justice. First time I saw one I was like "wow cool!"

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Well today i got them filled with dirt!!! i had origionally planned it to be 10 tons but it only took 6 and it made a little higher than i wanted but is okay as it will settle. I had origionally planned to take it up to about 1in from the top of the brick, but it ended up going to the top.

Tomarrow i will have to go over an finish leveling it more and shifting some dirt around as bed 2 and 3 have small piles of excess dirt while bed 1 needs more dirt down by the hostas along with the small ring around a tree that was made from extra bricks. I also have to put the old landscaping timbers in the back by the steel wall to bring the dirt out away from the building and back below the weather stripping on the outside of the hangar. I origionally was going to do this first, but my friend said he could put the dirt in today when i wasnt expecting it, but it doesnt really matter that bad. Just a little more work.

So here are the pics from today




the hostas are going to be where they are somehow, but my mom thinks i should split them but i havent decided yet. Also the shrub by the door is just there until i find a good spot for it.

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forgot to add these bonus shots of the OV-1D... Sadly it hasnt flown at all this year

[whiteman]

that plane is so ugly it's cool!

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that plane is so ugly it's cool!

i hear that a lot lol. It is a pretty cool turbo prop though and only a few left in the US. We use to have two of them but sold the other a few years ago.

[Babalonian]

forgot to add these bonus shots of the OV-1D... Sadly it hasnt flown at all this year

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Woah...  beuty I guess is in the eye of the beholder.

Looks like an A-10 and a Mosquito driver went out one nite for drinks and had a couple too many.

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Woah...  beuty I guess is in the eye of the beholder.

Looks like an A-10 and a Mosquito driver went out one nite for drinks and had a couple too many.

OR coupled once too many.   

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This will be a long 2 parter post with pics. The first two paragraphs can be skipped as its really just a story of what happened on Wednesday… Pick up on Thursday if you do skip it as that’s when pics start.

Well this week has been a very big one for my project and I have gotten a lot done.

 I got the all but four of the plants on Wednesday along with the weed tarps but before i could start anything with the plants, i still had to put in the back wall to bring the dirt away from the hangar's wall above the weather strip. So i got that done and then re-leveled the dirt. I got the tarp all down and staked and it was ready to start being planted.

I laid out all the plants how it was planned and started with the butterfly bush. Got the tarp cut open and dug the hole. Got the bush in and was thinking "i might get this bed done today." Started on the first Day Lilly got the tarp cut and then started to hear thunder; looked up and saw clouds coming in from Ohio. So i figured i had about 20-30 minutes to get at least half of the plants in that bed planted before it got too dark or started raining. It was already 8 o’clock by then and i still had to drive to Pittsburgh to pick up my mom at 9 which meant i would only have a half hour anyways left to work. I figured I would at least gather all my tools up and put them next to the car so if it did start raining, i could throw them into the trunk and go. So i did that. I then got into the car to get the camera out so i could get a few pics before the rain did come so i could update this thread. I hadn’t even reached around the seat to get the camera yet and out of nowhere this instant downpour came with gigantic drops. I still had the windows down and all. So rushed to get them shut and then to get the tools in the car. By the time i got it all in, i was completely soaked. 5 minutes later it was all done and there wasn’t even a drizzle. had to go home and change and didn’t even get on the road until 9. The drive up was strange as we had lightning everywhere and it didn’t stop the whole drive, but there was no rain...

Thursday

I went back over to the airport to finish the first bed. Of course with the rain all the dirt turned into muddy dirt. It wasn’t really mud but there was enough water in it still that it sucked having to shovel it out because of the added weight of the water. So I was able to finish bed one’s planting. The next thing I had to do was put the wall up in the back to bring the dirt out again. I got it done and started leveling the dirt again so I could tarp it. That sucked as I was using an old landscape timber to level it by running it across the top of the brick and back wall, but it was hard as bed 2 was a little muddy. I got the bed level and got it tarped and I was done for the day as it was 5pm and Thursday night is our family’s men night out at our local bar.

I took these before I was done tarping bed 2…

Bed one

The day lilies

The BF bush

And Air Heritage’s first butterfly visitor


On to part 2…

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Part two.

Today I went over hoping to finish it. But I didn’t however, the last four plants had arrived (I had to place a dig order for them). I planted one of them in bed 1 like it’s supposed to be and then started planting bed 2. I was able to get all of bed 2 planted by 7(I’ve been going over around 1 o’clock every day this week).

Its really starting to shape up. Tomorrow, I will go over and hopefully finish by putting up the back wall, tarping and then planting it. Either tomorrow or some day next week, I’ll have my friend deliver the mulch and get it all mulched. I still might put some annuals in as it’s a little thin, but either way it looks 1000 times better than before and in time for the Aviation Appreciation Day which is next Saturday.

I didn’t think to take any shots of the bed from the fronts, but will do that tomorrow.

Completed bed 1


Completed bed 2


Spirrea that has two tri-pods in bed 2:

Drawf fountain grass that surrounds the water facet, exhaust pipe and the white pipe:

Unfinished bed 3:


And the whole thing as a whole (end of bed 1)



From end of bed 3



I think i need to split all of the hostas so they are smaller and match the other plants size better, but i dont know. What are your guys' opinion on that?

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ITS DONE!


look here for the final comparison:

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,297828.0.html