I made it to this weekendapos;s Wildflower Centerapos;s fall plant sale and bought eight plants. I love that sale because they have only native plants and mostly only drought-tolerant plants (some native plants grow near creeks). Also, itapos;s fall, the perfect time to plant things in my part of the world because plants have the whole mild winter to get established and prepare themselves for our harsh summer.
First I got a walnut. Not the usual black walnut that grows 60-80 feet tall, but some other kind with small walnuts that grows only 16-18 feet tall. This is because it sounded a lot easier to grow. Like this one is really going to grow. (The last one I got, planted in a hurry right before we left for our cruise, did not make it.) I would love to be able to harvest walnuts one day. Growing a walnut tree could also be considered a long-term investment in a very nice wood.
I paid for it and carried it to my car. Carrying a five-gallon plant half a mile is decent exercise, which is why I did it.
Then I went back and bought seven smaller plants and carried them back.
Then my seatbelt alarm went off even after I moved the plants around and buckled all the seatbelts in the car, so I had to listen to it all the way home. Next time I got in my car, the alarm was no longer going off. Magic
Buying eight plants was risky, though. Iapos;m a terrible gardener and canapos;t be trusted with plants. You can tell what a lousy gardener I am when you see what my goals are for new plants:
1) Plant them as soon as possible after buying them. This is half the battle, by which I mean that if I do this, the plant has at least a 50 survival rate.
2) Keep them watered until they are established.
3) Do not accidentally mow them.
I have almost completed step one. The walnut is in the front yard near the street.
One blackfoot daisy is in my moonlight garden (all pale plants near the back door) and the other is between my two red yuccas. I have had really good luck with this plant before even though it likes rocky soil and I have clay soil. It loves the sun and the heat.
The pale yucca, a small grey-green twisted yucca, is in front of the orange-brick planter. The silver pony foot, a light grey ground cover plant, is in front of the living room window, on the other side from the rosemary. Both of these love the sun, and I should mention that I didnapos;t buy a single plant that isnapos;t drought tolerant (at least not to my knowledge). Also, they all are perennials, though the blackfoot daisy is short-lived.
The dwarf Barbados cherry, an evergreen shrub with an edible but supposedly not yummy fruit with possibly lots of Vitamin C (the regular Barbados cherry has lots of vitamin C) and which I heard is good for bonsai, has been added to my row of plants in the front yard and is the mostly likely to be mowed. It grows into interesting shapes and makes lovely small pink crinkly flowers.
I planted the red turkapos;s cap, a good shade flower, under my pine tree.
And that leaves the flame acanthus, a deciduous shrub full of orange flowers loved by butterflies and hummingbirds, which I cheated with and planted in a bigger pot for now.
While I was pulling weeds, something stuck me in the thumb. So todayapos;s score is Debbie: 7.5 and yard: 1.
Overall, my yard looks pretty much exactly the same as when I started. (And much worse than it sounds in this entry.) And I am totally used up.
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