Gardenfaerie's Non-420 Gardening Thread

[Radogast]

Yes, it is interesting. All my puttering around eventually does amount to something!

You have no idea how much I love that free mulch and guano! I can't even believe it's there for the taking.

Maybe everyone should move here to yippie kayo kaiyay-ville!

Free mulch is an amazing thing. The best I found around here is $15/ton for whole shredded trees, delivered.

I spent two days tearing out bat guano infested walls, not a fan of the fresh!!

The overpass reminds me of parts of Texas where they don't want my kind. I'll yippie kai yay elsewhere

 

[Lester Freeman]

Incredible Update GF.

 

[GardenFaerie]

Free mulch is an amazing thing. The best I found around here is $15/ton for whole shredded trees, delivered.

I spent two days tearing out bat guano infested walls, not a fan of the fresh!!

The overpass reminds me of parts of Texas where they don't want my kind. I'll yippie kai yay elsewhere

Not true Rado! Where I live it is very mild and neighborly. On my block we have Hindi's, three amazing AA families with amazing kids who do everything for everyone, one Chinese family and on the corner is a man and his family from Lebanon. Yeah, there is the cop across the street, but he's mostly just an asshole.

I don't know what you mean by "your kind" but this part of yippie kai yay is very cool in that regard. One of the things I like about it.

Have you called your town to see if they have a mulch program? They may shred Christmas trees and give that mulch away. They do that here too and I love that mulch because of how good it smells. Pine...mmmmm.

 

[PeeJay]

I have a lot of work to do in the front, or no work. I'll either get it all planted or leave it sparse and mulch everything heavily. Put in a few nicely placed behaved succulents and cacti, with some nice airy foliage for texture. Less work. No fertilizer or watering necessary.

The mulch route sounds good to me. With the big tree out front competing heavily for water you'd do well to dig out what you don't want to keep (or decide to move out back near your fence), throw down a kill mulch over the winter, and plant xerics in select areas in the spring. It would look nice and tidy from the street and you'd be able to focus your water and efforts on the lush oasis out back.

That's some clean looking free mulch! The free mulch here is always rife with scraps of black plastic garbage bags, drink lids, etc. Sweet score on the guano!

 

[GardenFaerie]

Yeah, that is the way I'm leaning. I really want to be restrained in the public areas. It is too much maintenance for me to have a perennial border in the front beds. I only water about once a month and only because I have trees. That Burr Oak in the side bed where the prayer flag pole is, is very xeric. I want to take out those two Crape Myrtles. I always hated the flower color and they are the builders "two trees." I wish someone would come dig them out and use them as they are over 15 years old and would cost roughly 200 dollars each to replace.

The recycle center is strict on what you put out. They will come and take your brush from the sidewalk for free, up to five minutes of loading. They have a huge bucket with arms and it lifts huge piles into their trucks. If you have anything in it, paper, plastic anything, they don't take it. Period, the end. So yes, it is not only beautifully clean, it is very super finely ground up.

Every year the Christmas trees...oooo baby that stuff is gorgeous. I love it because they grind everything, the wood and the needles so you have a perfect compost effect. I pile that up in the corner in the bins and in spring I have blackness you wouldn't believe. That is what I add the guano to and it gets very, very hot fast.

 

[GardenFaerie]

Some little things that live in the gardens. Some photos may be older and so quite small. I have to see how they post up. The hummingbirds are Anna's. We only have a few species of them here, for the most part. Down in the south on the coast the hummingbirds gather by the hundreds of thousands every year before their annual migration to Brazil and south American places like it. That, is a sight. They will literally cover you and perch on arms, fingers, hands, heads and will eat right out of your hand. They are little flying diamonds.

Baby cardinal in the nest.

Crows on the roof looking into the skylight and pecking like mentals.

Giraffe at an incredible wildlife preserve called Fossil Rim. Unbelievable place we are members to.

 

[GardenFaerie]

I may have repeated a few of the photos. The hawk on the street light is the light that is just outside my back fence by the street. The kids always shoot it out with a BB gun, but this year they didn't. I wish they would.

 

[GardenFaerie]

Cannafan, I forgot I had a video of the wet pole with the squirrel!

 

[Radogast]

A feast of riches GardenFaire.


What I mean by "my kind" is that in southern states, Texas for example, my great haired hippy in a Hawaiian short look tends to be noticed and comments on.
On the I40 corridor I was pulled over while being passed by an 18 wheeler in my convertible.
The officer wrote me a ticket for 2mph over the speed limit and told me I should head for the state line and only stop for gas.

Another time I was thrown out of a shopping mall because my jeans laced tight to combat boots was "scaring people."

A third time I was advised not to take photos of a house for sale because there was a town hall in the background, and did I need an escort to the town line.


Austin and Dallas don't seem to dislike me, but the rest of the state is convinced I don't belong. I think.it's the perpetual smile

 

[Radogast]

P.s. love the lizard, anole, gecko photos

 

[Lester Freeman]

That's me.

Long haired hippy in a tie-dye Grateful Dead shirt

 

[GardenFaerie]

Oh that kind! Hahaha, I am definitely YOUR "kind" then! I wear tie dye shirts and I blast Europe '72, particularly China Cat/I know you Ryder
medley. Actually, that was the first thing Mark bought me.

We met in 92 on Prodigy. Remember that? Okay, so we met and I was in the middle of getting divorce. This, that, the other, yadda, yadda, yadda, we physically meet on neutral grounds, in Florida. I drive NY to FL with my cats, my dad was dying and Mark flew from Dallas to St. Petersburg and we met in person for the first time. We still loved each other in person!!!

Still together.

But, my point is, when he came to meet me for the first time, he bought me the Europe '72 CD, along with Led Zeppelin 1 and The Doors.
Nice. That's back when a CD was 30 dollars. 'Member?

Ah memories are great.

However, what kind of a colossal prick gives a ticket for 2 miles over?

 

[Radogast]

Oh that kind! Hahaha, I am definitely YOUR "kind" then! I wear tie dye shirts and I blast Europe '72, particularly China Cat/I know you Ryder
medley. Actually, that was the first thing Mark bought me.

We met in 92 on Prodigy. Remember that? Okay, so we met and I was in the middle of getting divorce. This, that, the other, yadda, yadda, yadda, we physically meet on neutral grounds, in Florida. I drive NY to FL with my cats, my dad was dying and Mark flew from Dallas to St. Petersburg and we met in person for the first time. We still loved each other in person!!!

Still together.

But, my point is, when he came to meet me for the first time, he bought me the Europe '72 CD, along with Led Zeppelin 1 and The Doors.
Nice. That's back when a CD was 30 dollars. 'Member?

Ah memories are great.

However, what kind of a colossal prick gives a ticket for 2 miles over?

I remember prodigy, but from 1983-4, not 1992. My wife was in prodigy the same year.
My wife and I met on secondlife two decades later.
I flew 1200 miles to her hometown to meet up.
I still remember our first hug

 

[Radogast]

However, what kind of a colossal prick gives a ticket for 2 miles over?

I was driving a Porsche convertible top down at 7am on a Sunday morning, wearing a turban and sunglasses, singing along to Queen.
In NorthwestTexas, that's a lot like waving a flag in front of a bull

To be fair, I'd been driving twice the speed limit in New Mexico earlier in the morning, so it was hard to get tweaked about a $15 ticket.
Bring a Sunday, I couldn't actually pay my ticket that day. Or pay it remotely later from another state. I ended up having to hire a lawyer
to visit the courthouse and pay my fine in person. I can only assume they make a lot of money from unpaid fines that go on to warrant stage.

 

[GardenFaerie]

Prodigy was going out of favor in the early 90s when AOL popped on with live chat. Prodigy was going to start to charge by the hour and nobody was going to pay that so a whole bunch of us who met online moved to AOL. Then we all lost touch.

Yeah, driving a Porche, top down, turban, okay I see your point! TX is not the state for that unless it is Austin. THEN, anything goes. City motto official is, "Keep Austin Weird."

 

[Radogast]

Austin and I totally get along.
I think it's the bats, and the water and all that carveable limestone.

Best acupuncture I ever had was in my hotel room from a girl I met on 6th street selling spiritually inspired jewelry the night before.

 

[GardenFaerie]

Hahaha, 6th Street! The only time I go there is to shop Whole Foods, which is about never. I know my nieces hang out there a lot. One of them is in the Philippines in the Peace Corps now and the other still in college so I'm fairly certain she is partying on 6th St.

It is a nice little city, but certainly nothing compared to where I grew up in a REAL city. Ha. Really, when you grow up in NYC, and go to anywhere else, it is all just small townish no matter what. I once lived in Cleveland for several months on a job I was doing and right on Euclid Avenue too. What a dump. I would hardly call that a city. Maybe Chicago, Philly, Baltimore. Those are also cities.

Mark emails me yesterday from work to tell me his 4 month training is over (training for what? he's doing this 29 years) and his work hours will be 9-6. After I flipped out screaming FUCK THAT, etc. for an hour, I emailed him back to tell him to quit, we'll sell everything and buy the RV and get out of here up to Portland. He really liked that, but asked why his hours went from 7-4 to that ungodly crap and his boss apologized and put it right.

DAMN! I was almost in that RV finally!

 

[PeeJay]

Early in the morning is the best time to enjoy the garden. Mark is in-tune with nature. You'd just spend more time together in the early morning than the evening. A leisurely morning is a good thing. That's just me... I'd trade 7-4 for 9-6 any day. Just love morning and being able to enjoy the peace of morning hours at home.

 

[GardenFaerie]

Yes, Mark is very much in touch with nature. He is out there at 5am every morning with his Mag shining on everyone checking the ponds making sure the pumps are on, etc.

We love getting out on the weekend at 8a to do whatever in the yard, done by 11 or earlier. But during the week, we are so set in how we live. In bed by John Stewart, watch that and usually gone before it's over. He'd rather go early and get out early. The last month he had to go in at 8 and he sits here waiting to go in the morning. We are definitely up very early and love morning. It's the traffic that sucks at those times. I mean, bumper to bumper one road in, one road out. No infrastructure to support the thousands of houses they are building everywhere.

 

[PeeJay]

Traffic sucks. I know it well. But, hey, you are a city girl. I'm a wide open spaces guy. If it takes me an unpredictable time to get to work, I won't choose to live there. Just me. It's a core value.