If you follow me on Intsagram, you will note that I have been having a string of bad luck with my garden this year.
I lost my fig tree, a whole lot of ivy, the backyard boxwoods, and most recently, my hostas have been withering up and dying. Yes, I can even kill hostas.
To remedy the situation, I have been making weekly trips to the garden center bringing home new plants. I have replaced everything except the poor dead boxwood who lived in our front door urn.
I added the cast iron urn & boxwood last summer, and it was adding a bit of class to the Storefront. Well it was looking anything but classy with the dead and yellowing boxwood. Something needed to be done.
I started searching for new replacement trees & shrubs, but they are expensive! I didn’t want to invest too much, as I am still worried our plant thief will come back and take them. With decorative trees in the $60+ range, I held off to find the perfect tree.
Surprisingly my waffling paid off. Last weekend while perusing the local Loblaws garden center, I spied a pretty ball topiary tree. You know the ones, they look like a show poodle’s tail. Well this pretty topiary had a too good to be true price on it. The poodlesque Eugenia was a good 4′ tall and had a $29 price tag. Yes you read right, $29! I thought it must be a mistake, and lugged it to the checkout. Sure enough, it was on sale, at over 50% off! Woot woot! I snatched it up, and carried it the 5 blocks home.
I planted my new pet poodle tree in the urn, and surrounded it with a few succulents and some mulch, and we now have a regal poodle topiary. We’re back to being classy. Well as classy as you can possibly be when you call your topiary a poodle.
What do you think? Any guesses on how long it will take me to kill it and/or butcher its pretty poodle haircut?
