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I live in the Piedmont of NC. I got three Yaupon Holly trees from an online mail order source in the first part of October. After they arrived I couldn't get them in the ground for about 4 days.

I thought I did the right things planting them, dug a hole significantly bigger than the modest root ball (these guys are only about a foot tall) and used new bagged topsoil to fill it up. Watered every three days unless it rained (which it has been, quite a bit, but they are on the top of a slope so I expect drainage isn't much of an issue) for the first 2 weeks they were in the ground.

Now their leaves have turned a nice red brown and have fallen off and I expect they are dead.

Any suggestions as to what went wrong?

These are going to be bananas soon, right?! :)




I also have a couple plants I would really love to know what they are (and if I should stay away from them! The red thing looks sketchy!)

( 2 strange plants! and my small garden. )

I know that was a lot of questions, thank you so much in advance for any help!! :)

My adviser didn't bother telling me that she was wrong about my being able to take this one class at a certain time (evidently even though it is the EXACT SAME CLASS/CLASS NUMBER as one offered in the middle of the day Mondays and Wednesdays when I can't go, only people already in nursing school are allowed to register for the night section. I can't afford the extra childcare that 6 hours/week would require to make the day one, KRI KRI).

I'm pretty pissed because I have nothing else to take but actual nursing classes because I was already several years into other degrees that fulfilled all of my unrelated prereqs (you have to take and pass the TEAS/complete all the classes that I'll be finishing next semester with a B average in the sciences before you can enter the nursing school here; they take that BSN shit seriously, I guess). Which leaves me at 11 hours for next semester, one less than I need to keep my full-time student grants, with nothing else to take that benefits me in any way.

My adviser has not been helpful at all. She sends me one-sentence responses a billion years after I send her anything and generally does not answer my questions anyway or provide any helpful advice. She's also great at coming across as impatient with me IN ONE SENTENCE even though I am asking perfectly valid questions that IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE HER JOB TO ANSWER. THAT IS WHY YOU ARE CALLED AN ACADEMIC ADVISER, DUH - YOU ADVISE.

So I guess I'm taking a yoga class for PhysEd credit I don't need on Tuesday nights to spite the universe. Except I hate yoga because thinking about my breathing makes me hyperventilate, lulz.

Fuck big schools, man. CBU had its fair share of stupidities and shortcomings, but at least they actually knew who you were and tried to help you with stupid crap like this, albeit inefficiently and with lulzy results at times.

O GOD MY LIFE. I've kind of been trying to browse my flist every other day or so, but this is me officially giving up for circa the next week. We're moving the last of our stuff to the new house in a fancy ol' Uhaul tomorrow and probably won't have internet over there for at least a few more days (which will be fun school-wise, LET ME TELL YOU, INTERNETS). So DUN HATE ME when I disappear for awhile - UH CANNOT HELP IT, UH AM INTERNETLESS.

Not that I've been around a lot lately anyway. Let's review:

1. School is nuts right now as the semester winds down. Everything is due/there are three times as many tests lately because everyone is playing catch-up in terms of the syllabus (DAMN THAT SLOW SOUTHERN DRAWL IN LECTURES)/etc. I'm kind of overwhelmed.

2. BBgurls' mystery illness, O GOD. It's somewhat better now (the smell is not nearly as putrid/things have, AHEM, solidified a bit), but we're not at 100% yet. The parasitic/viral tests all came back negative; I should know about the bacterial results by Monday. Thank you to ALL who commented on that last entry - I didn't have the time or the clean hands necessary to reply, but it definitely helped a TON.

3. Painting/cleaning/preparing the new house: I feel like I've been doing most of the physical prep work alone due to a combination of Kevin's aversion to painting (he is SUCH a baby about this)/his seasonal migraines incapacitating him some nights/my generally being too much of a perfectionist not to do a lot of it myself anyway. He's been taking care of a lot of the other stuff though, so I can't complain too much. But HOLY GOD, I've been with bbgurls from 7-8 a.m. until Kevin gets home, then I go to class, then I go straight from there (roughly 10 p.m.) to paint/work on the new house, then I get home around 1-2 a.m. and have to do fucking end-of-semester-shitstorm homework, THEN I get to wake up and do it all again. For the past two weeks. I am exhausted in a big, bad way.

4. Packing our stuff for moving: Kevin has done a lot more of this than I have. Actually the worst of this will happen tonight, when I should be working on clinical apps for AP/studying for the Nutrition test I have tomorrow and completing that stupid semester project for the class that is also due (I'm almost done with it, at least). JAYSUS. We've been living out of two bedrooms with a few other things here or there throughout the house, so how the hell have we accumulated so much shit?

I also need to complete some comprehensive list of stuff we don't have because folks have been asking and I haven't had a second to sit down and think about it at all and I think I'm starting to offend people. I'm sorry, family and friends - I really do appreciate the offers and would love to take you up on them, but the time, I has none, KRI KRI.

Kevin and I were having this ~mildly heated discussion~ at the house the other night. I was painting a window sill and he was sitting on the ground holding his paintbrush and looking suicidal about continuing. I got kind of miffed because I'd gone there straight from class and had already been working for two or three hours and he'd just gotten there 30-40 minutes before and was already too tired to do anything else (I know, I'm indignant and whiny sometimes). He told me that I expect too much from other people; I told him that I didn't expect anything of anyone else that I wasn't doing or wouldn't do. He kind of laughed and said something along the lines of "YES, BUT YOU WORK TOO HARD AND DO TOO MUCH." That's kind of the crux of my personality disorder, I think.

Off to pack or do homework or both while bbgurls nap.

Does anyone have a good solution to perhaps save my indoor plants from my ever-eating-plants-cat?

I'm running out of space to put my plants on that she can't reach, and I'd love getting more so!
Any suggestions someone tried that worked?

I'm looking for girly or GN (or anything with frogs!) 12m size cotton flooted sleepers. Anyone have any? :)

After stirring the contents of the composter a bit, I discovered some huge roaches running around the box. I'm kinda new to this compost thing. Is that normal?

We recently moved into our house and are just starting to fix up the yard-gone-feral (the house was empty for six months, which is also about as long as our summer season is here in Florida). As I'm getting out and about, it's very obvious that our yard is uneven. There are a couple of places that are 3'-across circular areas that dip down by an inch or two. They are somewhat hazardous during the day and I expect they'll be even worse at night. Is there a quick and easy way to fix them? We're having our housewarming weekend after next so I'd have this weekend to work on it (stupid non-daylight savings time taking all the weekday sunlight away from me!). I'd also be interested in solutions that take longer because, hey, it has to be fixed eventually. Oh, this is also in the back yard so it's okay if it's a little unaesthetic for a while.

I've been trying to decide what to do with my garden pathways. I decided to go with using straw/wood shavings.  I got a TON of cardboard from work to lay down to kill the weeds.  So what is the easiest way to go about this?  My thinking is (simple!) lay down the cardboard and top with straw/wood shavings.  Sounds easy.  Will that work?



wow.  i cant believe how different my garden looks today.  this is a picture from last winter.  since then i built a 4' picket fence where the metal fence is, i replaced all of the old bed frames with 2x8's and built 2 new beds.  but the weeds in between the beds still grow like.. well... weeds!!!   it's a pain in the butt to mow in between all of those beds so often. 

This is kinda making me Lul

http://community.livejournal.com/parenting101/5157008.html?thread=125357200#t125357200

There are comments being deleted could be mods, but it seems weird with the comments that have been left be, then the Stop stalking my post comment to herself.

With so many here reporting late (OMG LATE!) roses blooming, I thought I'd share these. I picked them yesterday at my employer's house. LOL She's had her gardens for about four years now and has *never* picked so much as *one* of the flowers. Since I had the run of the house and grounds yesterday while she was out of town, I decided to show her what she was missing out on.

Included in the arrangement is several pink roses (in various stages of blooming), a few Knockout roses, and foliage from nandina, youpon holly, an unknown shrub, and ornamental grass.

I left before she got home, but she called me later asking who'd sent her flowers and what had happened to the card. When I told her the flowers had come from right outside her own door she just couldn't believe it. I have a feeling my list of duties is going to be expanded to include Chief Flower Cutter and Arranger.

Hey, fuck you badparents for banning everyone who commented on the leaked post. Way to ignore your community rules about changing the font my bad, that's not a rule afterall and flaming *IN* the community.

Gah. I used to mod that community and I remember exactly when it turn into wimpfest.

This morning, I turned on the light for my baby pomegrantes and saw a WORM!!
Ok, granted the soil was brought in from a bag in the shed, but when it was warming up and drying out, I thought I thoroughly checked it for bugs.
Do I leave the worm to come out on its own again and pluck it out? Do I use tweezers and get it out? [I am thinking no]? Or do I just let the litle worm live in my cupboard?

I really dont like worms!!

Thanks in advance, and Happy Wednesday! :D