Water Gardening: babies have arrived, 1 by fredrump

fredrump wrote:
My very good friends Chuck and Jeanne Caine live in Columbia on Cedar Grove Blvd. They've wintered here in Naples with us since 1998 but we know them since 1971. He owns Columbia EDP and they do lots of payrolls all over MO and the surrounding states as well as run various public pension systems. Perhaps you've heard of either?

Time runs fast here as sunny warmth and water are the two ingredients for rapid growth. :-) I'm quite amazed myself at the lilies' expansion in such a short time, though I did slip them a micky twice already. I'm now doing other landscaping which has to get done before the rains start. I huge Cuban Royal Palm has to be moved to a more syncronous spot with its partner by my entrance gate. Today they were here with a bobcat scraping and grading my drainage gulley out front. Monday I need to pick up 2 pallets of zoysia and Tuesday two more.

Where we live was affectionally called Florida swamp land in the 60s and sold in 5 acre lots for a few thousand dollars. The entire area which was drained via canals was as big as Rhode Island. The Southern part is being returned to the Everglades if the feds will ever caugh up the money they promised to help the state to do that. As it is, we have to elevate everything because when the rains come this place wants to return to its natural state which was to filter the waters flowing from all the from around Orlando down into the gulf. We mess with nature everywhere we live but here we've really done a job. See my street front last September. That's why they make you build high and which is why dirt costs $400 a truck load. It's one of the major costs of construction here.

Fred