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Dickens and other stuff
Nov 12, 2007 | 5:09 PM PST
Tags: Dickens , Photos

The trip with my DIL and friends was wonderful. Just what I needed. We laughed and shopped and tasted and ended the day long trip with supper at Fatz Cafe.

I have just downloaded some pictures and now realize I need to take more tomorrow as some of the areas to be redone are finished and I haven't taken the after photos. So check back later.

My Angel Trumpets will get their last picture taken tomorrow with their sad top leaves and heavy buds and blooms. The Tibouchina is still putting out purple flowers but the backyard mums are going down and will need to be cut back in the next few days. The bank area that was so beat down by the heat and no rain is actually perking up some now. The Verbena is looking good. This is an area that will have to be redone and replanted next spring. Don't know if the Verbena will come back but the wild burmuda grass has taken over in a few spots. Will dig it out and put down black plastic garden bed covering. I think I will try some of my daylilies and lirope on the bank along with some annual trailing petunias and sweet potato plants next year. Soaphouse had such good luck with her sweet potato plants this past year. Isn't her front looking good in this late fall/early winter weather?

Will post pictures of the plants inside the house soon. My husband says it looks like I dug  up  every garden  and brought them indoors. Can't believe it but I have Tibouchina blooming in the sunroom. Some of the cuttings are from members of GG, so I will try to get pictures of those cuttings and label them.

One of the things I like is the purple shamrock a friend gave me. He considers it a pest and I may too next year, but the color is wonderful. I brought some inside and left other of the bulbs in a pot outdoors. And the Firespike from one of you is beginning to get leaves. It looks to be rooting much like the Angel Trumpet. Speaking of which, some of those cuttings may need to have bigger pots as they are really growing.

Think I will start a photo album of our Master Gardener greenhouse. You might be interested to see how things grow during the year. It just takes so long to upload the photos. Maybe that is good as I might have thousands downloaded by now.  Also want to revisit my friends Larry and Ruth Ann to see their greenhouse in another month or so. I really love a greenhouse. It just lifts your spirits and frankly gives me a thrill.  One thing taking the Master Gardener course did for me was to take this small window of interest in gardening, throw it wide open, then magnify it  and multiply it 10 fold.  It was like an awakening within that said this is what I love, this is where I want to be, this is what I want to do for as long as I physically can.  And then you wonder why didn't I know this 20 years ago?

More to Come Later