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[deranged chipmunk]

Hahahahaha!! People tend to see these gardens so full and lush and don't realize exactly how much is involved with it, and just how long those plants have been growing. When I told my friend his garden would take about 10 years to fully mature, he freaked. He wanted the cottage garden look, now! I said sure, we just need to place a plant order of about $3000. Suddenly, he didn't mind letting it grow in a few years lol


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[LilyPad]

That's the truth! My butterfly/hummingbird garden has been going for, I think, 4 years now, and is just starting to look full. I'm still supplementing it with annuals to fill in yet, I'm hoping in the next 2 or 3 years I can stop doing that. My shade garden has been established for 8 years and it's finally huge and gorgeous. Another garden I started 2 years ago, it looks so bare and empty yet. I ended up buying about $100 worth of perennials for it again this year because I lost all my lavender in it due to the flooding. It just rotted off.

Honestly, I spend way WAY too much money on my gardens every year. This year is the least I spent in a long time, and only because I'm not working at the garden center anymore.

EDIT: My shade garden WAS huge and gorgeous...until the deer got ahold of it. They've never gone to that part of the yard before My coleus, begonias, and hostas were all completely destroyed.