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Garden Geeks thread

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dxmnkd316 said:
No wonder our snapdragons came back
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When we bought our house, the previous owners had a bush planted in the front yard that was from southern family, so it had sentimental value for them. This bush grows like a weed everywhere in Tennessee, but it wasn't really supposed to survive in Zone 6. It grew very slowly and only bloomed for about 4-6 weeks each year in September/early October. The wife told us that she usually cut it back and covered the roots each fall to protect them from snow and frost.

We never bothered to do any of that and the bush did just fine. If anything, on our watch it grew and actually started choking out the bed it was planted in. This past year, we asked them to come dig it out if they still wanted it, because we wanted to remove the bed. We walked outside around 10am one Saturday morning to a giant hole in the yard where the bush used to be, lol. The husband is kind of a toolbag who rinky dink DIY'd and brute forced a lot of stuff in this house, so it's for the best that we didn't get a chance to chat.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
When we bought our house, the previous owners had a bush planted in the front yard that was from southern family, so it had sentimental value for them. This bush grows like a weed everywhere in Tennessee, but it wasn't really supposed to survive in Zone 6. It grew very slowly and only bloomed for about 4-6 weeks each year in September/early October. The wife told us that she usually cut it back and covered the roots each fall to protect them from snow and frost.

We never bothered to do any of that and the bush did just fine. If anything, on our watch it grew and actually started choking out the bed it was planted in. This past year, we asked them to come dig it out if they still wanted it, because we wanted to remove the bed. We walked outside around 10am one Saturday morning to a giant hole in the yard where the bush used to be, lol. The husband is kind of a toolbag who rinky dink DIY'd and brute forced a lot of stuff in this house, so it's for the best that we didn't get a chance to chat.
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Our prior owner randomly shows up to our house...

I kind of get it. It was his parents house and then his house, in the family for 70 years. But, he has gone so far as to ask our contractor why we are changing the garage (he showed up randomly when we were actually fireproofing and insulating the garage our bedroom is above). Now I take a small pleasure every project I do that is fixing his shotty, cheap work.
 
When I moved to this house in mid 90s we were a zone 4-5 depending on where I was planting. I am now a 5 or 6 and have a couple of things that made it from 7 in a very sheltered area. I have trouble with things that do better in zone 4-5. And the amount of rain we had this yr has lost me a number of plants (and a yew) that were 40+ yrs of either reseeding or just happy where they were.
 
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