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I’M BACK: DISPATCHES FROM TRAVEL HELL

April 10, 2017

Holy smokes. I’m finally sitting down to reach out to you all to just let you know I’m still around a little bit about what’s been happening.

I tend to do little personal updates as part of Friday Finds, but there was no getting to a computer on Friday. Last week I traveled to Savannah, Georgia, for a fun event with all the Troy-Bilt brand ambassadors, a group I’m happy to be included in.

Unfortunately we all got caught up in the Delta airlines mess related to storms on Wednesday. I won’t bore you with the whole horror story, but I left my house at 5 a.m. Wednesday and didn’t get to the hotel in Savannah until 10 a.m. Thursday. And as if that weren’t bad enough, flights were screwed up when I was supposed to fly home on Friday as well, so I didn’t get home until Saturday night.

The whole group of garden blogger brand ambassadors. Of course they took this photo AFTER we gardened all day!

This cute herb garden was beautiful but we also added a few plants and cleaned up some beds here as well.

The good news is that I did manage to get to Savannah to help rebuild and expand a children’s garden at the Savannah Area Council of Garden Clubs Botanical Garden that was damaged in Hurricane Matthew. Along with Planet in Action and some local Troy-Bilt representatives, our group of 10 brand ambassadors put in several new gardens that should develop into really lovely places for kids to enjoy. I’m proud to be associated with a company that really reaches out to help and not only did Troy-Bilt organize the whole garden makeover, but they left behind a collection of equipment to help maintain the garden and gave the organization another $5,000 to help support the garden.

Officials from Troy-Bilt, Planet in Action and the botanical garden celebrated Troy-Bilt’s donation. 

The other good bit was that although I missed out on seeing so much of Savannah, I met some more great people including Amy from Get Busy Gardening who ended up being my travel partner for most of the trip as somehow the two of us kept getting stranded in the same places. After countless hours in airports, about five hours in a rental car, two hotels and a handful of bars, Amy and I got to know each other pretty well and I can assure you, she’s a good person to get stuck in a bad situation with.

All of this means that things on the blog got completely backed up because believe it or not, all that travel mess didn’t really allow for much time to actually work on things. (It’s difficult to type when you’re standing in one line after another.)

Allow me to catch you up. First off, the latest One Room Challenge started next week and I’m going to do it again. So later today (or possibly tomorrow) you’ll see a post introducing my project (technically you’ve already seen it but I finally have some more focus on it and it’s completely different from the bathroom I did last year.) I’ll post the update on Thursday to get on schedule with the official guest participant posts.

With all the travel delays I felt like I was gone for ages but it was really only four days. Still I was shocked to see how much the garden had changed in that time. Daffodils are up all over the place. Garlic mustard weed is popping up all over (and now is the best time to deal with it). In between other projects on Sunday I pruned roses and a few more clematis, set up the temporary greenhouse (affiliate link) and suddenly felt overwhelmed with all there is to do.

More coming, but I just wanted to let you know, I’m still around and not planning to fly anywhere soon!

I am a compensated brand ambassador for Troy-Bilt. But I mentioned this project here because I thought you’d be interested, not because I was paid to. And of course, all opinions are my own!

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by Erin @ The Impatient Gardener 
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  1. Elizabeth@ Pine Cones and Acorns says: April 10, 2017 at 11:42 pm

    I know exactly what you are talking about, my husband was stranded in Atlanta after flying in from Seattle on Friday morning, a day after the storm. He said the airport looked like nothing he had ever seen, people camped everywhere. After being stuck there all day Friday he finally got a flight on Saturday mining, not to our home town but at least in the same state! So sorry for the people who missed their own weddings, family funerals, and important events in their life. Shame on Detla!

    Thankfully you made it home and were able to participate in this event.

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    • Erin Schanen says: April 11, 2017 at 3:20 pm

      I'm glad your husband got (more or less) home! I felt terrible for those people who really had to get somewhere or whose vacations were ruined. It was a bummer.

      Reply
  2. Lisa Greenbow says: April 11, 2017 at 11:43 am

    Don't you just hate those sorts of trips. Nothing worse than to be stuck someplace.

    Reply
    • Erin Schanen says: April 11, 2017 at 3:20 pm

      It's the feeling of helplessness that is the worst!

      Reply
  3. Linda from Each Little World says: April 11, 2017 at 2:36 pm

    At least you weren't pulled off the plane like the person on United. Convinces me why I so rarely fly!

    Reply
    • Erin Schanen says: April 11, 2017 at 3:21 pm

      Can you believe that? I'm certain Delta is very thankful to United for that incident because otherwise everyone would be talking about Delta.

      Reply
  4. Amy Andrychowicz says: April 11, 2017 at 3:18 pm

    Awe thanks Erin! You're a good person to get stuck in a bad situation with too. We made the best of a bad situation! 🙂

    Reply
    • Erin Schanen says: April 11, 2017 at 3:21 pm

      Well we certainly laughed a lot!

      Reply

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Well you’ve seen simple, this is clearly not tha Well you’ve seen simple, this is clearly not that. Let’s just say I threw a lot at this window box. 

Metal ring (inspired for years by Deborah Silver) was made by a local metalworker. 
Greens: fir, cedar, juniper and magnolia 
Branches: budded willow, cardinal dogwood and fantail willow
Garnish: pinecones, faux berries, faux amaranth and faux fuzzy ball things

My takeaway from this container is that I need more windows and a much bigger window box. 😀
This is what happens when it’s nice enough out t This is what happens when it’s nice enough out that I can actually feel my fingers. One minute you’re hanging garland like you do every year and the next minute you’re pilfering dried flowers from your hydrangeas and sticking them everywhere. 

This all started because the bay that I bought in the cartload sale at the nursery in August is still very much alive and looking good, so I transplanted it to the pot outside the garage (last picture). But it needed a little something to fill out the pot and I glanced around for what I might have and the next thing you know, I’m harvesting hydrangeas like crazy. 

If I had given the garland even a couple minutes of thought before I started throwing things in there I would have gone for an asymmetric look, but when you’re working outside in winter in Wisconsin, done is done.
If it were only this easy.😀 If it were only this easy.😀
Are you on Team Simple or Team Elaborate? For as Are you on Team Simple or Team Elaborate?

For as much as I love creating somewhat elaborate winter containers, I’d still never be without the simple ones. This is why the front of my house looks like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were decorating. I simply can’t restrain myself to a theme or design concept. 

Anyway, this trough planter is in a spot that’s not easy to get electric to, so I don’t bother with lights. Cardinal twig dogwood, fir and magnolia are all it takes to give this the simple look I need after going nuts with other containers.
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