News on the homefront
Well, it's a NICE feeling to still, in this heat, go in the backyard and pick fresh, organic lettuce, tomatos and zucchini. I make delicious salads. I add all the herbs from my garden, parsley, sage, lemon thyme, tuscan rosemary, spearmint leaves, a stevia leaf and rose petals. It tastes really good when I take a bit of salad that has sweet in it, along with the bite of vinegar from the sesame dressing.
I've finally got fencing up overhead, a little at a time, so the grapes can crawl across and it will shade that part of the yard.
The sea buckthorn trees/bushes are doing well. Even after we lost all the big ones.
The clementine tangerine tree isn't looking so good. It's small and new, I hope it will withstand the summer. The Meyer Lemon is doing great, lots of lemons for winter.
The zucchini has begun to take off. At least it freezes well, unlike cukes, which we had last year. Even the watermelon vine is starting to produce babies. IT had better get a move on!
The comfrey and stevia are doing great, however the echinacea and horsetail are suffering. Horsetail needs it wet ALL the time and the ech..I dunno, too much sun I guess.
I even have basil up and zinnias blooming, both volunteers from last year!
I have dwarf crape myrtle in back by the pool, they smell LOVELY.
I also have a butterfly bush in the back. The seeds of this bush are winged and look like butterflies. I read a magazine article 9 years ago of a woman that paints them for earrings and brooches. I thought it was neat, so I searched til I found one. But I don't have time to do anything with them. If anyone would like any to try to paint, let me know, I'll send you some.
The front yard...I will try to take a good pix of the Persian Lilac bush. It is HUGE and covered in purple/bluish blooms. It looks much like a butterfly bush. The desert willow is blooming..and growing. I'll have to cut that back soon. Chaparral is smelling up the yard and doing well. The teatree tree is growing taller and doing well, and the polonia, it's growing but the leaves were yellowing. I think it wasn't getting enough water. When I was at school all the growing things suffered.
I have two protected elephant trees in my front yard. That was dumb. They grow to 10x10. That's about how big my yard is! LOL Actually it's about, I dunno, 30x20? It's not huge. We are the cornerstone house on a cul-de-sac. The end house, the one that didn't get all the yard.
I have 5 major trees in that yard. We shall see what happens in the coming years. I keep cutting back the elephant trees.
I have 5 little pomegrante bushes near the front of the house, dunno if they will bear fruit.
And I have a tuscan rosemary, [huge] and 2 jackson- perkins Lincoln red roses in front.
I have in pots..a gardenia that is dying, a lavender that can't take the heat, white and purple petunias that smell divine at night and red cockscomb.
Everything is getting watered now, so they are doing better.
Lastly, water accidentally drained out of our pool a few months ago. It was fiberglass lined. It cracked. HUGE cracks. we had to get it resurfaced. Lotsa $$$$. It is FINALLY done. The pool is 10 feet deep, only old houses have pools that deep here, ours was build in 1970, slump block, we put pebble tec in it, so it has a darker bottom, which is supposed to let us swim earlier in the year and later. It took 2 full days and 2 full nites to fill up that baby. Something like 40,000 gallons? I dunno.
So what is it that owning a house ALWAYS costs so much money??? Dang, do things ever stop breaking??
Janine
I've finally got fencing up overhead, a little at a time, so the grapes can crawl across and it will shade that part of the yard.
The sea buckthorn trees/bushes are doing well. Even after we lost all the big ones.
The clementine tangerine tree isn't looking so good. It's small and new, I hope it will withstand the summer. The Meyer Lemon is doing great, lots of lemons for winter.
The zucchini has begun to take off. At least it freezes well, unlike cukes, which we had last year. Even the watermelon vine is starting to produce babies. IT had better get a move on!
The comfrey and stevia are doing great, however the echinacea and horsetail are suffering. Horsetail needs it wet ALL the time and the ech..I dunno, too much sun I guess.
I even have basil up and zinnias blooming, both volunteers from last year!
I have dwarf crape myrtle in back by the pool, they smell LOVELY.
I also have a butterfly bush in the back. The seeds of this bush are winged and look like butterflies. I read a magazine article 9 years ago of a woman that paints them for earrings and brooches. I thought it was neat, so I searched til I found one. But I don't have time to do anything with them. If anyone would like any to try to paint, let me know, I'll send you some.
The front yard...I will try to take a good pix of the Persian Lilac bush. It is HUGE and covered in purple/bluish blooms. It looks much like a butterfly bush. The desert willow is blooming..and growing. I'll have to cut that back soon. Chaparral is smelling up the yard and doing well. The teatree tree is growing taller and doing well, and the polonia, it's growing but the leaves were yellowing. I think it wasn't getting enough water. When I was at school all the growing things suffered.
I have two protected elephant trees in my front yard. That was dumb. They grow to 10x10. That's about how big my yard is! LOL Actually it's about, I dunno, 30x20? It's not huge. We are the cornerstone house on a cul-de-sac. The end house, the one that didn't get all the yard.
I have 5 major trees in that yard. We shall see what happens in the coming years. I keep cutting back the elephant trees.
I have 5 little pomegrante bushes near the front of the house, dunno if they will bear fruit.
And I have a tuscan rosemary, [huge] and 2 jackson- perkins Lincoln red roses in front.
I have in pots..a gardenia that is dying, a lavender that can't take the heat, white and purple petunias that smell divine at night and red cockscomb.
Everything is getting watered now, so they are doing better.
Lastly, water accidentally drained out of our pool a few months ago. It was fiberglass lined. It cracked. HUGE cracks. we had to get it resurfaced. Lotsa $$$$. It is FINALLY done. The pool is 10 feet deep, only old houses have pools that deep here, ours was build in 1970, slump block, we put pebble tec in it, so it has a darker bottom, which is supposed to let us swim earlier in the year and later. It took 2 full days and 2 full nites to fill up that baby. Something like 40,000 gallons? I dunno.
So what is it that owning a house ALWAYS costs so much money??? Dang, do things ever stop breaking??
Janine
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