In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Right now we're in "roller coaster" weather - up 25 degrees, down 25 degrees over the course of 5 days.
I think our "rainy season" has come to an end, with maybe 4 or 5 extra inches of water so far. Enough to make the farmers, plants, and animals (fish, too!) happy.
Except that poor parking lot tree: I think it's dead. Or almost dead. The 8 -10 gallons a week that I would water it with was probably just enough to keep it green, but not enough for it to store sufficient sap in its roots for springtime budding. All of the other Callary/ Bradford pears have flowered by now ... I was hoping this tree was just getting a late start but I took a real close look at the branch tips this past weekend and noticed that there were very few viable buds.
I'm sorry, tree. What I didn't wasn't enough.
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Gotta figure out when the best time to re-seed my grass is. Something nasty got a hold of my backyard toward the end of last summer and about 20% of it is barren now. It wasn't moles... I've had those before. My dad's had grubs before and he said it wasn't grubs. My backyard is my little sanctuary and it kills me how bad it looks right now. Still too great a chance of it getting too cold at night to try seeding it yet though.
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Well, it's a good thing that nobody knows exactly where I live because I'm about to confess to acts of guerrilla gardening!
I had a bunch of old leftover poppy and lupine seeds that I didn't know what to do with, so while driving slowly on the right-hand lane of some nearby freeways I just threw the seeds out the window.
I was very pleased to see a patch of poppies growing where I don't think poppies have ever grown before, and a stand of lupines where I KNOW lupines never grew before.
Pretty!
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That pear tree really is dead? Poor tree.
You did your best.
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Meanwhile, my very own, large self-planted coast live oak was looking worse and worse over the last few years. Last summer I looked up and realized I could see sky through the canopy. I've never been able to do that before. And the leaves and twigs were drooping down. And though you aren't supposed to water live oaks in their dormant season - hot summer weather - I felt I had no choice or I was going to lose it.
Then the rains induced a lot of new growth this year. The canopy is full again. And this year the tree was loaded with catkins, a new sight! Looking around at all the other coast lives oaks in the area and surrounding towns, I see they too are undergoing a revival.
But I learned my lesson. When fall comes I'm going to start watering, just in case it's not going to be a good winter for rain.
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Quote:I see a few tentative blossoms on some branches so maybe not completely dead. I guess I'll go back to watering the tree, but I plan on 10 gallons/ week, no exceptions!
Originally posted by 1kiki:
That pear tree really is dead? Poor tree.
You did your best.
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If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
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Good for you! YAY for the tree!
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, it's a good thing that nobody knows exactly where I live because I'm about to confess to acts of guerrilla gardening!
I had a bunch of old leftover poppy and lupine seeds that I didn't know what to do with, so while driving slowly on the right-hand lane of some nearby freeways I just threw the seeds out the window.
I was very pleased to see a patch of poppies growing where I don't think poppies have ever grown before, and a stand of lupines where I KNOW lupines never grew before.
Pretty!
I did the same thing back once back in my youth.
Had a few nice looking plants growing for a few weeks....
Until one of the cops discovered they had a few pot plants growing next to the front door of the station.
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Quote:Thanks for the laugh, SIX!!
Until one of the cops discovered they had a few pot plants growing next to the front door of the station.
Boy, I have to say this has not been one of my best months ever. Just way too many things to deal with ... If it isn't one thing it's another. I don't think next month will be better because there are still too many loose ends to nail down, plus MORE things to nail down. Maybe the month after...
Sigh. I think I'm going to have a pity-party all to myself.
At times like these, I have to declare victory over little things, like having a nesting pair of scrub jays finally take residence in our neighborhood (they like the peanuts I toss out 2X/week!) and seeing some pretty flowers bloom in new places.
Plus I have a bouquet on the table of purple/pinkish statice and yellow freesia
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If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
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Slowly but surely, the snow here in little Russia is receding, but no flowers yet.
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