Well, it's looking better than I thought it would at this point ...
6 years ago
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Three months after the 'incident' the yard is looking better than I thought it would.
Notice the covered over trench in the foreground ...
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After doing the watering for several weeks Bob decided to do away with my 75 ft heavy lifetime guaranteed Craftsman water hose (I loved that hose -- heavy as it was!) and put in three watering stations with lighter weight 50 ft hoses.
Here is one of the stations. I don't know where he found the purple paint, but I like it. Later I'll paint the white pipes blue or green or sumthin' ...
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Thank you darling. It does make watering a LOT easier! Here's another of the stations ...
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While we're back here I'll show you a favorite canna I had years ago that came up recently from seed. The flower is a tiny red thing that barely shows at the top, but I love the red rimmed leaves and red stems ...
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Not knowing how many photos are allowed in the first post this will be continued ...
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Yes, Bossy, beloved put in a lot of thought and labor to install those stations. He did mention timers. We'll see. But I kinda' like being out there throwing water around ... lol
You've seen my photos of this plant before, but it's new for me this year and it has proved it's worth so I'm showing it again: 'Dragon wing begonia'. It gets a lot of sun and watering has been sporadic, but the leaves and flowers remain fresh ...
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At this stage of my life I am committed to cutting back on plants. I really mean it this time. Experience IS the best teacher.
All the plumerias are gone, but five of the nine bougies I had remain. It's hard to find a plant that provides this much color in a small pot ...
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I do like the shady spots and the jungle look. Can you spot the animal?
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More jungle ...
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And I enjoy swooping plants like the flower stalks of the red yucca ...
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In the fall when I can dig, a few more things will be going and I'll be replacing them with dry land shrubs and small trees. I'm impressed with how well some of the ones I have now have done. A few are showing in the photo above.
At a later time I will list the ones that have done the best in the heat with little attention. In the meantime, I'm open to suggestions so bring them on! ... :-)
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Comments (7)I live in the city and bought a butterfly bush last year. To my amazement, a butterfly joined us for a whole day in our garden! I grew up in the suburbs, so figured I would never see butterflies in a city! Got hooked quicker then a worm on a hook in a fish farm! This year, I have more butterfly loving plants, but most haven't started blooming yet. (Butterfly bush, Russian Sage and lavender seems to keep them happy.) This year, I've seen a huge variety, often all at once. Now, I'm not you, so can't tell you what any of them are. (Did research last year's visitor, which also fueled my addiction, since I never noticed any butterflies that weren't monarchs until then.) So, what can such a novice teach you about what I've learned? In the mid-Atlantic states, last year was a crappy year for vegetable gardeners, particularly tomato lovers. I don't know too many gardeners around here, but the two that I do know (one 50 miles away, the other 75 miles away) are both very knowledgable about how to garden, and yet I (I've had to read excessively to stop having what felt like a permenent brown thumb LOL) was the only one, who managed to get any tomatoes at all last year. It was so bad, even the news reported it, and commericial growers were in bad shpae. (I live in Philly. The commerical growers are mostly in South Jersey and one of the main reason its nickname is "The Garden State.") They had plants of course, but little grew for them. Why? The spring of 2006 was extremely wet around here -- flash floods, flooding in towns that only get any flooding about once ever 100 years, and it just seemed to rain forever! This spring was perfect -- rained enough, and only had a flooding problem once for areas proned to flood. I had the same three plants that are flowering now, in bloom last year, but only saw one beautiful butterfly then. It might just be a reaction to your incredibly wet spring. Unfortunately, it might be foreboding about your garden in general this year, too. At least my story will let you know, if it is a bad butterfly season this year -- it doesn't mean the end of butterflies for your area, just lower numbers this year. BTW, you grow butterflies inside?! Might sound like a strange comment to write in a butterfly forum, but this is my first visit, so, ...how cool!!! And your knowledge? I'm so impressed!!! Thanks for sharing!...See Morewhy would older A/C cool better than new ones?
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6 years agoAww Ragna, your garden is forever awesome despite three stripe broken bones. I hope you are getting better now weeding while planking.
I don’t have anything going on in my yard other than the grass specialty st Augustine sucking up water worth hundred of dollars plus grass cutting. Oh almost forgot. My moringa is 10’ tall with long beans. Whoo hoo!
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