The mail receptacles along our block are pretty much the standard you've-seen-one-you've-seen-them-all sort. Most have a newspaper box on or near the post. Quite ordinary stuff.
Some of the denizens, though, have undertaken to liven things up a bit, a little decor, in a manner of speaking. This one is ours spruced up, or more accurately, yarrowed up with a bit of greenery and pretty white flowers most of the summer.
This is the neighbor to the south. Rocks and Roundup
TM.
The neighbor next door eschews frivolity, lets the lawn grow around his post. But the neighbor two doors to the north has the winning display in my opinion. Perhaps my liking for portulaca influences this judge's selection. For years in my prior residence we had a rose moss ground cover in the front yard flower bed. Ir reseeded itself every year and thus required little maintenance.
The lady at this residence says she has no such luck. She resets the bed each year. It is a bit past its peak right now, but portulaca is so colorful and varied yet so uniform in height that one has to admire it.
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I love moss roses for that very reason--low maintenance. I'm guessing that hers dies back from the road salt or the amount of snow plowed on top of it from the street. We used to have a little garden around our light pole out in front, but I finally pulled it for those very reasons. It took a beating every winter.
Lin, I never thought of that but I bet you nailed it.
I like the greenery around yours. People have always tired to spruce up those required boxes and the spaces around them. But, no matter how much they are decorated, we still recognize them. (Kind of like when I do the makeup thing every morning but still see the same old face in the mirror when I'm finished.)
I'd never plant flowers around a mailbox. Well . . . maybe if I hated the delivery person.
Vee, ah, yes. But the face is nicely presentable.
Chuck, you've left me asea. In what way do flowers say "I hate the delivery person?"
I just hope my mailbox doesn't get taken out by the snowplow every winter.
Jono, so far so good. the plow does sometimes pile the snow such that the post driver skips our box.
In answer to your question, can you spell bee?
That was one of my dad's (rural mail carrier) pet peeves.
Chuck aha. Still no plan to pull my flowers.
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