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Posted by princess_mimi z5 6 OH (My Page) on Tue, Sep 14, 04 at 22:37
| I just have to share with you all who totally understand how exciting this kind of thing is. Today my good friend Beverly and I Went to a historic home near us that has been sold to a developer. There were lots of plants and some bricks that were just going to be bulldozed. I did some research and got permission to save them!
We got 13 grocery bags of Iris Rhizomes, a few day lillies, Roses and some peonies too! The bricks I picked up will make a lovely mowing edge in my front yard.
Talk about great finds!
It's just a shame that the house and land will be "developed". Even so, the developers are going to try to save a stone barn that has been on the property for more than a hundred years as well as the huge trees that border the street on one side. Also the folks who are selling are moving three out buildings, their Irish dry stone walls, an arbor and they have taken many of the flowers with them.
Oh, well! I guess we just made the best of the situation!
Mimi |
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| You did a great job! I wish I could find these kinds of freebies. Our area is undergoing quite a lot of developing, I'll have to remember this and maybe I can score big too! |
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- Posted by indica WonganHillsWA (My Page) on
Thu, Sep 16, 04 at 2:03
| A few farmhouses were demolished in my area recently. We were able to save several windows and a sliding glass door.These will be used on the new extension to our house. I have rescued a few plants from the local tip. A big aloe vera and several geraniums. Keeping my eyes open for some rose prunings to propagate now. |
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| Well sounds like you have a few genuine art museum pieces. Good find. |
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| Good for you, Mimi! I'll be looking for some of those plants tomorrow..... When you say you "did some research" -- what do you mean? I tend to use the "drive-up-in-the-middle-of-night-with-the-headlights-off" approach, but if I can keep it legal, I'd like to! |
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| Old abandoned homesteads... the kind with nothing but a fireplace and part of the foundation left... have been great places for me to get free plants. Got a bunch of daffodil bulbs from one on a trip to east Texas. I also got something I hadn't bargained for...poision ivy! Oh well, the poision ivy cleared up and the daffodils are happy in their new home. |
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| Bluebonnet--I bet it was worth every itch! My mom has some Black eyed susans she wants dug up. Guess where they'll be going?? |
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Can you give me information on how to research what properties are being developed and how to get permission from owners to remove plants and other things? I have been thinking to do the same thing, but have not been able to find any information on it. Maybe I am looking in all the wrong places.
Thanks,
Engi |
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| You could probably check with your local planning office (city/county commission) or zoning office or whatever. If nothing else, they might could point you in the right direction. |
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