Goodbye Garden Oasis
Oh what to do this coming spring. We use to have a wonderful plan for our backyard, flowerbeds full of Butterfly bushes, Roses, Lantana, Rain Lilies and Day Lilies. The whole overall plan was starting to come together this past spring and for the first time, we were really starting to have a backyard to be proud about.
Don’t get me wrong, we’ve always liked our backyard but for several years we had lived in a lease house and of course we never really did much to it because we always knew we would be leaving it. We had a small garden and a couple of rose bushes but since it wasn’t our home, we never did just a whole lot. Then two years ago we haad a chance to buy a brand new house in a brand new subdivision and we were finally going to have the backyard we had always dreamed about. We put together a plan and had been following it, pretty much and it was starting to look really good!
Tthen this summer we fell off the horticultural wagon and decided it was time again to bring a dog into the family. Of course with us, puppies or dogs, are just like potato chips. We can never have just one! And of course as you can tell from the blog, we soon were back to a multi-dog family.
Now during all of this, we kept telling ourselves, they won’t be too hard on the flower beds…yea, I hear you all giggling out there to yourselves right about now. And not having had puppies in many many years (we had had older rescue dogs for the last several years), we kept telling ourselves that it wouldn’t be bad. Heck the past dogs had all pretty much left the gardens at the old house alone, or at least that was how we rationalized all this to ourselves.
Au contraire, mon frere, we now know we were just teasing ourselves. Case in point…
The Butterfly bush when we first got Ursa…
The Butterfly bush after Fargo had been with us a couple of weeks.
One of the small flower gardens when we first got Ursa…
The garden (can I still call it that if there are no plants) now after three pups…
So now the new dilemma, how to fix the gardens so as to keep the dogs out? A plan that will most likely be a source of frustration and an on-going battle? Or just say to heck with it for a few years until they are older and not quite so destructive…yea, I know, I STILL hear you giggling out there. Man, those garden plans were soooo nice.
