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paul_in_long_beach

About me: Grandfather had an orange orchard in Irvine and later a beautiful hillside rose garden in Newport Beach.
I like to play in the dirt and grow stuff that looks nice and taste good too.
A first-time homeowner who took two years to landscape the small front yard (as in took the crab grass roots out by hand and amended the soil one shovel-full at a time with the neighbors complaining that they were tired the dusty, muddy barren earth look -- guys who told me that I didn't move to the prairie are now they're tearing up their lawns - Ha!)and am now directing my attention to the small back yard -- big ideas and little spare time.

My zone is: Z 10 Sunset 24
GardenWeb Member: 2001-04-07
Commented: Dwarf fruit trees for zone 23/24? What about citrus? I have a 5-in-1 and it does great.
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Commented: Euphorbia Cuttings I posted pics of this plant (including one in bloom) not long ago. I'm calling it Senecio anteuphorbium. Do a search on my user name for the pics and web sites IDing the plant.
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Commented: Looking for Zantedeschia 'Hercules' Had to Google that one. Looks like a calla lilly on steroids! The search found several mail order places for the bulbs.
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