Hi Dave, Nice show for the Commonwealth!!!! LOVE THEM!!! ALl of your pics look great, I agree with you about Kimo...she is a beauty!! I also love Jeannie Moragne.. OK, all of them are gorgeous!! It is hard for those blooms to hang around with the rain that we have been having, the trees love it but the blooms seem to frop off to quickly. I like it when it stays dry when they bloom, but we cant have it all. Looking for more rain tomorrow too... I have many blooms that looks great, but then the rain comes and they get knocked around alot. : ( Looking good for us here in Virginia!!! We have i think about 6 of us here in Virginia that are lovers for Plumeria!!! Well, they do say "Virginia Is For Lovers... I think We Should Change That To Virginia Is For Plumeria Lovers!!!" Hope You and your family are doing well!!! My K is ready.. should be only a few more weeks now!! : ) Take care Dave, Laura

Marti and Juneroses thank YOU for take the time to look and comment. So sorry to mislead you about the name of the cactus which Tally passed along. Last year I posted photos in which it looked like a praying Madona so I've called it that ever since. The plumbago by the driveway gets a lot of sun from the West. It's water needs are low and it has needed even less water this year since we've had several little showers and the rain runs across the driveway to where it planted itself. One reason a lot of pots are used is that it is NOT easy to dig a hole in this hard and rocky ground. Water absorbing crystals in the potting soil for the more thirsty plants helps hold the water longer. Also large holes are drilled in the bottom of pots so the roots can go out the bottom and still make use of any water that has escaped from the pot. For me it seems that pots require less water volume wise, because it is concentrated in the pots. Recently I'm using more desert plants in the pots that need very little water. This post was edited by roselee on Thu, Oct 9, 14 at 22:02

VaporVac: Thank you very much. Little by little, with great work we are transforming the whole property. It was wild when we arrived. Only large evergreen trees had grown there. I do not know if in your country there will be these trees, they are Enebros (Juniperus oxycedrus) of their fruit you get the gin. They are very slow growing trees, the ones I have in my garden are very big, so they must have many, many years !! There are also some pine (Pinus pinea) and some oak (Quercus ilex). It is a land located in a mountainous system in the center of Spain (Central System, it is called) the soil is sandy, granitic, with low pH, it leaches very easily and both nutrients and water go down, to the subsoil with Too fast. This forces me to take good care of my soil if I want plantations to thrive. In my climate, as I say, the heat of summer is terrible and above all the low humidity. It's a totally dry environment. If I did not protect my soil, I should water it constantly. To take care of it, I make constant contributions of organic matter, based on compost and manure. On the ground, twice a year, generous layers of these materials that nourish the soil, will gradually give a good texture and increase the organic life of the soil. On this layer of dung I cover with what we call padding here, I think you call it mulching. If you want to read an article from my blog where I talk in detail about how I put it, what materials you can use, at what time of year, what advantages and disadvantages this quilting has .... you can open this link. The blog has a translator (right button at the top) and you can read it in your language although you know that google does not translate well but I think you will understand the general meaning of what I say. In the blog, introducing the word "quilted" (in Spanish) will offer several articles in which I deal with this topic. http://eljardindelaalegriaenmadrid.blogspot.com.es/2015/06/renovacion-en-primavera-de-los.html Usually I use crushed crust. A good coat, generous. With this the soil stays cooler in summer, less watering and also has a great advantage, helps to grow less weeds. Here are some pictures of the process. First remove the old padding. Then I add the layer of manure on the ground Finally I cover with the padding. In the case of garden vegetables, directly on the original ground of the garden, between elevated terraces, we put anti-weed fabric that you can see in this image. On this cloth, we put a good layer of cushioning (chopped wood). This greatly avoids weeds. Some leaves, undoubtedly, but much less than when the ground is bare. It is very difficult for me to express myself in a language that Google must translate. I always think I may be saying something stupid hahahaha Rosecanadian ... how terrible the translators are. I can not understand what he wants to tell me !! Google translates me something like that: I'm right !! I do not know what it means to be on the right hahahaha

Jon, I'm living in Upper Franconia, the former border was only 20 km away. Now we are in the middle of Germany:-) It is a pleasant region, very green and no big cities around (thanks to the border). If you're interested just google Küps, that's where I live, very small, only 8.000 inhabitants. The beer is famous here, unfortunately I prefer a glass of red:-) Maybe twenty years ago every little village had it's own brewery, you would have liked it! Koffman, thanks for using that german word :-) Karin