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May. 13th, 2005 11:54 amNot much worth updating. Went to work yesterday, puttered and avoided the boss all day, scowled in the general direction of a contractor who's being a git(*), got plants from the greenhouse, and beat the rain home.
Brought home a (small) key lime tree, a large pot of ginger (some Hedychium, can't remember which one it is), a bunch of 'Magilla" perilla (which actually got planted last night), a few odds and ends, and the rootball and sprouting stump of a small bald cypress tree we thought we'd lost. Had to pull it, because it was close to the main road and goofy looking, so I took it home. We'll see how it does. Folks will just have to look at all the flats of plants everywhere tomorrow night; I'm certainly not going to be gardening tonight.
Spent today watching it rain and puttering in the shop and trying to look busy since New Boss wouldn't go away. Creep. Turf Guy managed to slip out before the "clean the shop" spree got started; the rest of us were stuck.
We've had 2.25" of rain so far today. Even if we don't get any more tonight, that makes up for the deficit of rain this spring.
( The Sock Report )</lj-cut) * The contractor who installed the landscaping for the new parking garage was out last week to talk about warranty replacements. Yesterday, he said he can't get four purple smoke trees to replace the dead ones (which were an unauthorized sub for what we really wanted), and faxed over a list of stuff he said he could get, and would replace the four dead trees and the one living but soon-to-be mismatched smoke tree. The list, for a southern exposure with compacted clayey post-construction soil, included: clump witch hazel (beyond the soil issues, since when did that become a tree?), a grafted tree-form hydrangea (not bloody likely), two strains of Kwanzan cherry and a red-leafed chokecherry (in clay???), a rose-flowered kousa dogwood (again, in clay???), sweetbay and butterfly magnolias (possible, but surely there's something better), and Oklahoma redbud. I'm still frowning in his general direction. Only the magnolias and redbuds are even worth considering for that site, as for the rest...mrph. And this creep is the *owner* of the company. Shows what he knows. Creep.
Brought home a (small) key lime tree, a large pot of ginger (some Hedychium, can't remember which one it is), a bunch of 'Magilla" perilla (which actually got planted last night), a few odds and ends, and the rootball and sprouting stump of a small bald cypress tree we thought we'd lost. Had to pull it, because it was close to the main road and goofy looking, so I took it home. We'll see how it does. Folks will just have to look at all the flats of plants everywhere tomorrow night; I'm certainly not going to be gardening tonight.
Spent today watching it rain and puttering in the shop and trying to look busy since New Boss wouldn't go away. Creep. Turf Guy managed to slip out before the "clean the shop" spree got started; the rest of us were stuck.
We've had 2.25" of rain so far today. Even if we don't get any more tonight, that makes up for the deficit of rain this spring.
( The Sock Report )</lj-cut) * The contractor who installed the landscaping for the new parking garage was out last week to talk about warranty replacements. Yesterday, he said he can't get four purple smoke trees to replace the dead ones (which were an unauthorized sub for what we really wanted), and faxed over a list of stuff he said he could get, and would replace the four dead trees and the one living but soon-to-be mismatched smoke tree. The list, for a southern exposure with compacted clayey post-construction soil, included: clump witch hazel (beyond the soil issues, since when did that become a tree?), a grafted tree-form hydrangea (not bloody likely), two strains of Kwanzan cherry and a red-leafed chokecherry (in clay???), a rose-flowered kousa dogwood (again, in clay???), sweetbay and butterfly magnolias (possible, but surely there's something better), and Oklahoma redbud. I'm still frowning in his general direction. Only the magnolias and redbuds are even worth considering for that site, as for the rest...mrph. And this creep is the *owner* of the company. Shows what he knows. Creep.
