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Plants in my Garden: Fig, roses, multiple flowers, Pomegranate, miniature roses, Navel Orange, Italian cypress, Cherry - 4, lots of apples, Smoke Tree, boxwood, Grapefruit, Hazelnut, Tangerine, Lots of Eucalyptus, Many Pines, 350+ Mountain Oaks, Peach Tree that won't give up, Pear, Fuji Apple, Some Evergreen Oaks
Favorite Aspect of Gardening: every aspect of gardening
If I'm not in my garden, I can usually be found: with my grandchildren
Occupation: Navy Wife - retired
motherbored
Member Since: 4/30/2008
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About motherbored
When we moved here in 1988, there was nothing but weeds and hard ground; since then, each year we buy a live Christmas tree and plant it; all the trees are gigantic, now. We live on 5+ acres; I do all the mowing, and, when I can, coerce my hubby to dig me another hole, so I can plant something else.
Mike (hubby) was in the Navy, so, each time we moved, I would start another garden and have to leave it, within 2 years or so; thus, I developed a hunger for planting.
Our place is home to many species of birds: bluebirds, nuthatches, orioles, red-tailed hawk, kestral falcon, wild turkey (her name is Miriam), 3 cats and 3 dogs. The cats only get to go out at night, for the safety of the bird population, in the spring and summer.
I build birdhouses and situate them for the various birds; we go through 100# of black oil seed (sunflower seed) per week, in the summer.
We had a pond put in and it's an oasis for all wildlife. We don't use pesticides. We have mosquito fish in the pond, as well as water iris, weeping willows, cork-screw willows, etc. I start most of our plants and trees from cuttings that I start in my greenhouse.
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It's a bird feeder daughter and son-in-law brought me back from San Lucia; it's a coconut shell. I was slow in filling it, this week, and when I went to do so, I found that an enterprising bird family had beat me to it. It's right by our bedroom do...
Yesterday...
I didn't get much done, except for resting. Durned back is giving me fits, again, so I stayed home. When Mike came home, he broought me the cards from the grandkids and my son. Son gave me a sun-plant combination with 38 plants: 30 Tigridia, 5 Ery...
