California Gardening: Hellllooooo?, 0 by SingingWolf

SingingWolf wrote:
OMG, Sharon! You've been here to my house! Honestly, the description of the winds is dead on. LOL!
I've been trying to get DH to help me build raised or at least straw bale planters. Which is why most of my plants are in pots too. I do have some in the ground, but I've been working on amending the soil for at least 20 years.
Did you know it takes about 20 years for goat droppings to finally disintegrate? Peculiar thing about goat droppings. Water rolls right off of them. So even when you work it into the dirt (we have decomposed granite), it doesn't soak in. It goes downhill. Usually taking your hard made top soil with it. : - (
DH is changing the sprayers, to the kind you are using or in some areas he will be using 180 degree sprayers. He did get a lot of the irrigation problems taken care of over the weekend around the house. Bless his heart.
Those are some beautiful lantana. The color is similar to the ones on my (no longer sideways), lantana "bush". I also have some purple ones that are spreading out on the ground, some yellow ones that I hope will spread, and them big white ones, which I've been whacking back, because they are interfering with another one of my garden projects. I also whacked away at the overgrown Rosemary plant. I'd forgotten how itchy they are. Still need to work on them some. Shudder!
I haven't made it to the pond except to give my chickens some of these guys. They are called water hyacinths, and are extremely invasive. I need to remove some so my water lilies will bloom. Right now they are too crowded by the hyacinths.
They sure are pretty in bloom, and work well in containers. We use them in our water containers for the bees. I saw one out by the bee barn, and I'll grab the camera to show you how it looks. The bees use the plants to climb out of the water on so they can fly back to the nest and become tiny a/c units. LOL!
Here are some blooming in my back yard gold fish and turtle pond.
Have awfully pretty flowers. : - )
WIB!
SW