Oy vey. I drove past our old house yesterday. The new people have completely wiped out my flower garden. Gulp. The new guy was wheeling a wheelbarrow full of plants out to the dumpster as I drove by, looks like a last wheelbarrow full.

In my head I knew that all those plants were a goner sooner or later, but had I known they were going to get rid of them within a year I would’ve dug up all the hostas.


Actually, I’m going to drive by the compost dumpster this morning and see if there are hostas I can rescue. Ironically, my condo complex wants a bunch of hostas. Had I known that, I would’ve dug up even more from our old house. As it was, I dug up a couple dozen and sold them at our sale with all the proceeds going to the park Conservancy.

I left many iris plants there, ones I truly did not want, but digging them and letting them out in the alley to let people know they can come and get them is a good way to get rid of iris.

I’m actually having to invent a new way to get rid of iris in Hermann. But that is another topic.

and the reason I didn’t take 95% of the hostas with me to Hermann is that deer eat them. Little did I know we would end up with an area below the deck that MAY BE deer proof. Recently I placed hostas and Lilies in that bed, and we shall see if the deer scale the wall to get to them.

tldr:
Old flower garden wiped out by new owners

Deer suck