YUCK, the pollen is horrible here. Every year around Spring Break time is when my allergies really start acting up. I worked in the yard a lot yesterday and last night my eyes were really hurting. It was bad enough that I actually got out of bed and dug thru medicine to find some allergy eye drops. Luckily I found some that gave me some relief and let me get to sleep. I guess I'll be wearing glasses for a few days now. I plan on working in the yard again today, but am going to use eye drops before even going out there today! Sure wish there was some cure for this!
We cut down both of our oleander trees/bushes and I am going to plant hardy hibiscus where they were. I'm so glad to be rid of those oleanders, well the stumps are still there, but at least the bush is gone. The one was as tall as our house, so that took a little more work to get rid of!
Also....The Biggest Loser is going pretty well. I have lost about 12 pounds now and can tell that some of my pants are feeling looser. I started Dr. Ian's Four Day Diet and really like that. Today I get to have 2 pieces of pizza on the diet!!!!
Showing posts with label oleander. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oleander. Show all posts
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Hmmmm........
Our oleanders are overgrown, so I decided to do some trimming on them today. I think I did a great job, what do you think? Should I get a job trimming bushes?
I didn't attempt to trim this one yet.
Ok, I know it looks awful and that was the purpose. I want to get rid of the stupid oleanders, I don't like how poisonous they are and I have some hibiscus I want to plant in their place, that will be much prettier. I cut back as much as my arms could stand to do and then made tons of cuts all along the stems at the bottom and poured bush killer all over it. I have read these things are hard to kill, hopefully I did some damage today, other than just cosmetic damage! I plan to just keep chopping away and pouring poison on it and hopefully by Spring it will be dead. For the really big oleander, I think it will need something more than just the clippers I was using. The pictures look a lot better than they do in person! So....in the meantime hopefully people driving by my house don't make fun of my hideous looking oleander!
Before After
I didn't attempt to trim this one yet.Ok, I know it looks awful and that was the purpose. I want to get rid of the stupid oleanders, I don't like how poisonous they are and I have some hibiscus I want to plant in their place, that will be much prettier. I cut back as much as my arms could stand to do and then made tons of cuts all along the stems at the bottom and poured bush killer all over it. I have read these things are hard to kill, hopefully I did some damage today, other than just cosmetic damage! I plan to just keep chopping away and pouring poison on it and hopefully by Spring it will be dead. For the really big oleander, I think it will need something more than just the clippers I was using. The pictures look a lot better than they do in person! So....in the meantime hopefully people driving by my house don't make fun of my hideous looking oleander!
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