Hello fellow Californians....let's introduce ourselves! #2

Hey Jo

Remember me under the grandmother oak at Jules home @ a year ago. We talked @ the flags at the cemetary in your town, Well at any rate I'm here and I think of you often. Pray all is well with you dear heart.

I most certainly do remember.....I am still Chairman of the Christmas Wreath Committee at our Veteran's Memorial Cemetery here in towm and am planning a float in our Veteran's Day Parade on Nov. 11th. I LOVE PARADES...especially with Military Bands. Jo

Hey Jo,
I am still here, just been really sick and it's been hard with the construction work to get on-line. Construction is finished for now and will probably resume after the first of the year.
Hardwood floors, and finally getting rid of that 18 year old carpet. Yippee! Now if only I wasn't too tired to enjoy 'em. LOL!
Have you gotten all healed up from your injuries? Just wondering.
I miss y'all! So check in and let us know how you are doing.
WIB~
SW

Hey! Yep...finally got through therapy for my arm/wrist....not that the hand will ever be as good as new...but I'll get by...with a little help from my friends...LOL

I would love to be able to sit under Grandma Oak and visit with all of you again. I found this pine tree that drops these lovely little rose shaped pine cones...don't know what it is but I go by there after a windy day and get me some more of them. Hugs Jo

I'm not sure where everyone is posting so I'm hoping you'll let me know. I'm crossing my fingers that the weather is finally headed down, supposedly we'll be in double digits for the next week but that's still high 90's. My roses are starting to try and recover; although I'm thinking that several of them and a hibiscus are gone forever, sadly.

I've gone through my seeds and if it would just cool down a bit I can start planting.

Thanks SW for all the good info. I'm trying to make sure we have individual drip lines to my new planting areas, my roses already have them but it didn't save several of them. Really sad to lose the JP roses. I think it's funny that the $6 rose bushes I've bought at Home Depot and Lowes flourish and JPs die out.

I'm so busy with the family as of late - my oldest is a senior in high school looking, so AP and IB classes, scholarship apps, and colleges are filling our lives. My middle daughter is in her 2nd year in the high school Culinary program and learning to cook pretty well - YUM! And my son, is almost 13 now and in 7th. They've grown so much since the round up.

I'll start posting pics as I plant - looking forward to reconnecting with everybody. Sure missed this group!

Hey Blondie, : - )
We're on the other thread that I started and accidently #'d the same as this one.
I want to see your harvest! : - )
WIB~
SW

Hello, I am Ernie Copp, recently moved to Vista, CA, and have been landscaping my half acre. Running out of room to plant more trees, so am looking for some Thornless Mexican Lime bud sticks to chip bud onto an existing Meyer Lemon tree. I can either pay for them, or trade Kumquat, Dancy Tangerine or Meyer Lemon buds, and will show you how to do bud chip grafts if you do not know how.

Also looking for tips on low growing, evergreen ground cover [blooms would be nice, too], that will thrive in total morning shade and total afternoon sun, as well as the reverse, Morning sun and total afternoon shade. I am both blessed and cursed with huge Eucalyptus on the East side and huge Pecan trees on the West side. Thankfully my lot is wide enough to have full sun in middle.

Welcome!

Edited to ad this link. Jo

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1193825/

This message was edited Nov 5, 2011 2:24 PM

Weegy12,
Thanks for the welcome. I was familiar with Cucamonga when there were no subdivisions within many miles of there, but there was a wonderful old winery that sold retail along Foothill somewhere. So I know good grapes grow there.

Good grapes used to grow here. There are very few vineyards left here now. I grew up in Chino and had family here in Cucamonga, it isn't like it used to be here.
I hope you're enjoying all that this site has to offer!

I do enjoy the enthusiasm members show, but have been surprised so few people from this coastal area take part in it. Lots of Nurseries, and gardens down here, but seems to be more members in areas that have more difficult gardening climates.

Welcome Ernie. There are/have been quite a few members in this SoCal area, but some have moved, some have gone to "the other place" (some of those post at both places) and it would seem some have just lost interest. You did not say where you were from or if you are new on DG. We have had a Spring Round Up for the three years I have been on DG (and for several years before me). It is a fun time to be able to meet others. The last 2 years have been in Menifee at the Bee/Tree farm hosted by Singing Wolf and her DH. Weegy had a Fall Round Up 2 years ago and my first one was in Bonsal. It would be nice to be able to have more DG'rs that participate in other Forums also attend.

Not being a spring chicken, I do remember areas when they were just beginning to grow. Like when we moved from WI and our housing tract was surrounded by orchards in Sunnyvale. I think the Winery you remember might be San Antonio Winery. I do still see signs that indicate they are around, but they must grow their grapes elsewhere. When I worked downtown LA we would go to their Tasting Room/Restaurant for lunch and take backstreets through Chinatown. Now the big winery areas for So Cal are mostly in Temecula.

You must be doing a lot of planting to be getting full, or were there a bunch of trees there when you got there? I used to live ON the coast and that temperate weather would let just about anything grow. Here, I feel like it is 3 steps forward and two steps back!

Lynda

Thanks, GG, for the Welcome. I also remember the San Antonio Winery downtown L A. I was a Highway Paving Contractor from 1954 to 1980, and that was a favorite lunch meeting place for the Engineers from the L A County Road Department and the Contractors that did the Jobs for them. The Winery i mentioned on Foothill in Cucumonga may have been owned by San Antonio, but i do not recall the name. I first found it in the late 40's, just an isolated stone building, with a counter in one corner of the warehouse, with an old Italian man sitting on a box waiting for a customer. I bought a gallon jug of good "Dago" Red, since we bought wine then by the color, not by the grape's name, for a Dollar or Two. We would use that route to Victorville and points East, to avoid the traffic if you followed 66 through San Bernardino.

They later fancied up the old building, planting Virginia Creeper around it, and making it a "Tasting Room". I have not been that way for many years, so do not know if it is still there.

Except for the period between 1980 and 1998, which i spent sailing my boat to New Zealand and then opening and running Bonners Ferry Nursery in North Idaho, growing large Shade and Ornamental Trees, and shipping them balled in burlap all over the Intermountain West, I have lived in Southern California since 1936. I have planted trees everywhere i lived, but seldom stayed in one house long enough to pick much fruit.

Since selling the Nursery and coming back to CA, i have lived on my Sailboat in Long Beach. But my feet and ankles are becoming numb, which forced me to move off the boat, so i bought this place in Vista. I am 85, but from my numb ankles to just below my ears, which have also died of old age, i am in excellent health, and enjoy planting things. I know very little about flowers, and the sub-tropical trees, so i am having to ask a lot of questions. I budded some regular Mexican Limes on an existing Meyer Lemon, which i do not care for, and working with the thorny material, i quickly developed a preference for the thornless types i am used to.

I do not know what the word limit is for these postings, so a lot this may well, and maybe should, be whacked off.
Ernie

PLEASE POST ON THE NEW THREAD FOR OUR REGION. JO AKA ROADRUNNER POSTED THE LINK ABOVE. And here it is again:
davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1193825/

Don't mean to offend anyone but this thread is about 300 posts long, which means that our dial up friends can't open it without a considerable wait. Lets let this fade, while we continue on the new thread, that includes our friends in NV, and AZ too. Actually anyone can visit if they want to, but we live in the Southwest, so it made sense to me to word the title that way, but it really is an extension of this one.
Thanks to everyone and see ya on the other thread.
Walk In Beauty~
SingingWolf