California Gardening: Succulents/cactus to grow in the ground - Zone 9B?, 0 by doss

doss wrote:
Sue! What a darling baby! I didn't know you had a Penny too. When you come to teach me to hybridize you should bring Penny along. Or do you have a need for a puppy play date? And of course Natalie is as precious as she can be. She's a real baby doll isn't she?

Natalie will look more like a poodle once she gets her curls back. Although she does have a soft fluffy coat. You might need to use gel :-) Or you could get her a sign that she can wear around her neck. No one knows that Penny's a Cavalier because she's red. People have stopped me at dog shows and asked me what she is. And these are dog people instead of guests. All the red and white ones make it seem as if there aren't anything else. But red is recessive so the least common. Someone asked me once if little black and tan Zora was a Rottie puppy. We sure enjoyed that.

I know something that will make you giggle. I very often work with my laptop in bed and leave a portable phone on the bed. When Penny wants something she's taken to turning on the phone. And she is one bossy dog.

If you haven't had a long-coated dog before, I have a grooming sheet I've put together with products, brushes combs etc. I'll send it to you if you would like. It's been a lot of investment in stuff that just doesn't work to find out stuff that does.

Luckily Pekasky only has to get those IG hairs (well and some others) out of her clothes before she goes to board meetings. I hope that you've got a beige suit. :-)

I'm looking at party places for DH's 60th birthday. There were too many to entertain at home and people are coming from far away so I wanted to feed them dinner. Think that I'll do Scott's Seafood or California Cafe. Scott's has a nice homey room that has lots of space. It should be fun. At first I thought that I'd do it at home but the thought of renting stuff and getting a caterer was over my head right now.

My yard is going to be a collection of things. I could spend a lot less and work a lot less and have fabulous. I am working on small areas now to make them small lovely gardens. Eventually I'll get to it all. The photo is a before of an area that I'm working on. The shed window is cleaned up now and I'm putting one more planting structure at the end to cover up the drainpipe. I've planted pale pink climbing roses, miniature peach/pink roses, a dark purple clematis and a rose colored clematis with bell shaped flowers. Oh, and blue star creeper. It will be fun to see it grow. I'm on to one more bed behind the pool. It's going to get mother fern and hostas. And sluggo by the pound. < :-0 I'm lucky that my garden has good bones. It can handle some chaos.
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