Propagation: Plant propagation part XIX based on my own ex

Starting at Golf Course which is North and return up the greenbelt going South.

First photo was looking right on golf course (West), this one is looking left (East)

Swing at end of greenbelt overlooking golf course.

Going from Golf Course up greenbelt toward our home. Wrong. Going from golf course area to street.

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More Greenbelt. Jnette, there is our large bushes of Lantana.

Silver Spoon, one of greenbelt plants.

More greenbelt.

Sorry, more greenbelt.

My favorite tree on the greenbelt.

More Greenbelt. Different photo angle on tree.

The Winter residence front landscape.

Moving facing the front from right to left. I was driving up the street.

Another photo.

Remember, this was not my idea.

Well, was getting ready to turn off computer and DH fell down letting the dog outside to go potty. No reason for him to be falling. I guess we need more tests. Later friends.

Gorgeous pics, Sharon... but where do I get some of those 'money bars'?
:-)

Outstanding Sharon.

Thanks for taking the time to share with us.

How many people work in maintaing the greenbelt.

It is truely green

I an green with envy

Sharon that is so pretty. I love it. It is funny to see what can be done in a desert, most people in this area don't even try to garden unless they have a gardener and landscape architect, except me. I am relentless and mad as you all can attest to now^%$#$#

I work with the disabled at this time. They work at various places, where my company has contracts. They move me around here and there, but lately I have been in a park, which is a city of Lancaster Park site. We are in 1/2 of the day but yesterday we were out most of the day because of special requests from the park. It was so hot.

Sometimes I work in the office doing stuff and sometimes they let me take work home to proof stuff. I also am in charge of getting badges and medical history paperwork together for several crews in the morning and Quality Control as a subordinate in the afternoon.

I used to be a massage therapist for 16 years, working in Workman's Comp for PT and Chiros. Then I got a job at NASA with a contractor who hired the disabled to be janitorial, general maintenance, electricians, plummers, landscapers. I worked first in the buildings with the disabled and later promoted to the Facilities help desk, which also was the dispatcher for facilities maintenance calls and work orders. My company was fired.

V ery nice pictures Sharon. What kind of tree is that you say is your favorite? Very unusual. Does is it grow like that naturally or did lightning hit it? Which one was your English garden mess?

Dawn, if your company was fired what are you doing now? You mean you are still working with the same company, just contracted by someone else.

Well, I slept in this morning 'cause I didn't sleep very good last night. We wanted to go to the county fair today. Better get moving. ttyl

Oh, I just lost a huge post... I will have to do it again later...'bye for now,

~ Evelyn

lol Evelyn, I hate when that happens. If you post a long post, periodically copy it and keep it in your mouse, so you won't have to type the whole thing over again. I am sure you already know that. I have lost my posts so many times, that I try to do it now, but still forget when I'm in a hurry.

Janette the old company is gone and I got a job with another company working with the disabled.

Dawn ..... explain how to copy and keep it in your mouse

Yes, Dawn, inquiring minds want to know...

New picture of plants Jeanette sent .... in recovery from exhausting trip.

Good news .... went to eye doctor .... eye that was legally blind and had a crystal lens inplanted now has 20/40 vision .... they said it was fantastic! ..... told exceptional for only one day .... total healing and adjustmennt suppose to take 3 months ..... Left eye will be done on Sept 16th.


Dawn .... I plan to post this picture on Trash to Treasure. My daughter was going to put it out for trash until I said that I wanted it.

What would you do with it? All suggestions/comments welcome.

Maybe you could put 4 posts up as you would space an arbor, use the skinny ones at the front and back of the top of the arbor and the fat ones in the middle to make a cool top of the arbor, paint it all white or some fun color like lavender and let cl. roses grow up it or something like Clematis with some other thing that blooms in another season.

All is well. Where is Dave.

DH has another Dr. appointment with cardiologist next Tuesday. I think he is having trouble with getting enough oxygen to brain. That is my diagnose. He does not have problems with his lungs so I am confused. It seems to happen when he has been sitting for several hours. He may have 1/2 a drink a night but seldom any more than that. Last night he had no drink. Oh well, will have to wait until Tuesday afternoon.

Dave my tomatoes are planted in a raised bed and gets about 4 hours of direct sun every day. The rest of the days the bed is protected from the sun by our home, trees, or the neighbors home.

Jnette, that is a mesquite tree. It just grew that way but it was planted as a large specimen so the tree could have had help from an arborist. I am sure it was not cheap.

The photo of my front landscape is my messy English garden. You must understand everyone else front landscapes are very prim and proper. A few shrubs, manicured lawn and minimal flowers.

Dawn, yes you are right. You can have a landscape like mine, it just takes about 6 hours a day. That is an average time. In the spring it is 10 hours and in the heat of the summer sometimes 1 hour. I was out today planting irises. About 60 and I got about 30 planted and just had to stop. But at the same time I was planting irises, I was cleaning the KOI pond or I would have probably got done.

Merry, the landscape crew that hits here on Monday mornings has about 8 laborers and one foreman. They are usually here 4 hours. Then 3 come back on Wednesday and Friday just to walk the grounds and make sure everything is OK. As far as your trash I would probably put it in my veg garden and grow snap peas and green beans. Great news about your eye surgery. Good luck in September.

Dawn, got you on that one. There are many individuals that live in my neighborhood who want their landscape to look like mine but they do not want to do it themselves and do not want to pay what it would take to get it done. I do spend some money on gardening but we do not travel, we do not eat out, our entertainment is being at home and my wardrobe since I retired is very simple. Blue jeans, clogs and a long sleeve pullover. I have a closet with at least 75 pairs of shoes I no longer wear. All business type heels. Size 7 1/2. No one wears size 7 1/2 anymore unless they are too old to wear high heels.

Avianut, you have been lurking. You should join us. You were always such a bright and happy gardener. You will fix right in. I guess that was a Freudian slip about the money bars..
Those monkey bars and the surrounding area artificial grass cost over $60,000.

I have a few hours of works to do tomorrow. It is suppose to be 106 but I am working in an shaded area and I have a large garage fan blowing on me to keep me cool. And I have my i pod jamming on Guitar music that is perfect to garden to. I am playing it on my I pod boom box so I was OK today because all the neighbors were not home. But tomorrow may be another story. May have to use my ear phones.

Have a great dahy and I am sending you all a big hug....

I am so glad your surgery was a success. I was worried about you the other day but could not post online.

where's dave???? oh there he is... sorry for the away time. been snowed under. one day no internet at all and then I had to do some other stuff to help the drywall guy. we managed to get the back door raised for the raising of the floor.
Jeanette asked why... I do remember sometimes a few ok a lot of posts later.... I have trouble with the step and the dining room you feel like your going to fall backards when you have your back to the living room. anyway I was told by my neurosurgeon that at some point he will need to do what he called a spinal salvage on me... remember jeanette asked...lol
a spinal salvage is about an 8 hour surgery where he will split the spine (vertebrae) in half gently set the spinal cord to the side, hollow out the spinal canal and them put it all back together. Its like 18 month's recovery and some rediculous time in the hospital. anyway he siadI am up walking and able to do some things with some quality of life and he said there is no reason to recomend the surgery now. Its not an if its a when will I be in a wheel chair. the sunken living room is not wheel chair freindly and both myself and Kim have triped on the step. plus with grandbabies its not a nice place to fall on. sharp tiled step up into the hallway.
Also we need to raise the back patio as the land naturally pools water and threatens to invade the house. so we are builing up the ground outside as well as the inside lifting of the floor.
we did get lucky with the door in that there was a header above the door at the correct height for the new height. so the door was easier than the massive headache it could have been. -(suport the roof while we install a new header and other fun adventures in house repair)
as you have sumized I have been on auto pilot as far as my plants go. luckily the timers worked well except for the evening the tree guy turned the tap off from getting water. caught it in time.....phew.... I did get in a bunch of stock plants for cutting on as well as a few phlox to grow for shareing oh yea also propagtion for sale. I got a nice new plant called Caryopteris divaricata Snowfairy which I am looking forward to propagating.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/68422/
well its bed time for me...early start tomorrow as I have to help with the raising of the floor. luckily I will have muscle to move the heavy stuff its more finess than brute strength.
I hope to be back tomorrow and will open a new page monday am
Dave

No wonder that grass appeared so green .... its artificial!

I am thinking of creating a Little People Garden in one of the shaded areas. Planning on using those tiny Madame Alexander dolls that Micky Ds is now putting in the happy meals for girls.

Now PEEPS please generate a list of plants that will showcase the little peeps.

Merry, we did look into artificial turf and it would have cost over $200,000 and it did not pencil out. That is why we removed many scrubs and replaced or removed many irrigation lines which cut down on the use of water.

I promise until this year, I spent an average of 4 hours a day out in the yard just to get what I have. Some days I was outside all day morning to night, some days 2 1/2 but this year since the micro watering things are on timers, some days I just do not go out to water, except when I get up in the morning, I catch some stuff. After 2 days of ignoring it, I will spend 3 hours out there, but not like before. This week has been too hot to go out and start seeds in my yogurt bubble cups as planned. I think I need to dig up some roses too to put in a sunnier area since they never seem to bloom in my tree shaded yard. I may wait till it gets cooler and hope for better next year. Less shock to the rose if I move it, but it could just be the water. I don't know. They have been moved before.

Dave I do not recommend that invasive type of spine surgery either unless your quality of life is so bad, you feel like you have no option. I have seen too many of my patients in worse pain then before the surgery, or going through years of morphine pumps and Fentynol patches, sleeping their rubble of a life away. The only exception I see to this is when people start getting up toward 67+ or are in bad, medical condition for other reasons, they just don't recover from the surgeries well or they are too unhealthy to do the surgery at all by the time they break down and decide to do it.

I have a few friends in Vegas that told me how they were offering money for those who removed grass and replaced their lawns with Xeric landscape.

Yes, the water district gives you $1.50 sq. yard and it costs about $4 to have it removed and about $6 to have it turned in to zero Xeric.

You should move your Roses in February.

I am with Dawn on your back surgery. I have several friends that have had back surgery and no one got better. A few got worse. So let us all pray that they find a new procedure that will help Dave before he needs it.

Hello Everyone, I have been busy with cuttings this week and it takes twice as long due to the fact I can only work in the greenhouse an hour before the heat is too intense that I am afraid to stay there. I finally got 81 Jasmine cuttings potted, some goldfish, and gardenias.
I took cuttings of hibiscus and I am wondering if I can start them in water instead of soil.
What do you all think?
We are to have rain today but so far it has not happened. Where is all this rain going?
Yesterday was my son's 53rd birthday. He is my baby.....that is what you call getting old when you have your youngest kid in his 50s. LOL. Do not feel like I will be 82 in a few days..sometimes I wish I could turn the clock back or at least stop it.....but that ain't going to happen, so I will just move forward.
My boy Dave sounds like he is going in a million directions. You all have been busy and I am reading some of it but not all, I have had to get these cuttings in soil, etc. I still have anthurium to pot and peace lilies to attend to. Not sure if I even want to bother with them.I am going to watch some tennis on TV now. I have worked enough today. Hugs. JB

Well JB, we had a little rain here .... about 1/4 inch! I am sure you are green with envy.

Jeanette. your plants are starting to look like they will have a full recovery.

Dawn, how are the Rose of Sharon doing?

Dave, did the JM seeds arrive?

Sharon, how is your hubby? More pictures please .... can't get enough of them!

Evelyn ....... I'm waiting for that huge post from you...... maybe it is in your mouse.

Lee and Avianut .... you have permission to speak ...... STOP YOUR LURKING!

LOVE YA ALL

Mary

Mary I don't have any rose of sharon, in the past I had some bare root ones, I plant seeds that never grow, the one that lived, never bloomed and it was in back of this monster bush that was small at the time, and kept it too shaded, when I moved it it died. I wish I had some. I just bought a white Hibiscus so I will see if it does good, you all have me convinced that I can have one, so here it goes. It is a 20 buck experiment. I swear I have alzheimers I have no clue what I did with my moisture gel crystals and I need to use some to start seeds. Grr! I guess I will have to cut some out of the bag of diapers I have been holding on to for this reason.

JB are you the one who said it was do something or another with your jasmin day? one day? Everyone thought I was babbling nonsense. I usual do, but this time I was talking to someone who made a comment, but I could not find the post or remember who said it.

Dawn, on Thursday, Aug 19th, you stated in a post

Mary thanks so much for my plant, it looks a bit wilty but I put b1 and peroxide on it and watered all the roots well and it is in my sink, I also put peroxide in it. It will live for sure. I am so glad you came through the surgery fine. Yeah Mary.


What I sent you were a few ROSE of SHARON plants. What did you think I sent?

I put one in a planter and it is still looking a bit worse for wear but is alive, the other is looking healthy on the bottom and not recoverable on the top, so I wacked it off at the end and will now have to move it to a different area since I thought it was the Ajuga that someone asked if anyone wanted bronze ajuga. lol You did not say what it was on the box. I was guessing. I pray they make it, so I can finally have success, without the price tag on the experiment. will go medicate the plants tonight again.

Dawn

It could be that they donot like the b1 or peroxide.

They were growing where I have daylilies that occassionaly get watered with Mirical Grow.

I separated them just now, thought they were two single plants. Thanks again.