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I’ve still got lots of yard left to plant. I’m running out of ideas of what to plant. Hopefully as the trees mature, I’ll have places to put epiphytes! One of my native cherries is starting to grow lichen. I’m hoping that it’s what we call “Spanish Moss” (they can grow as long as almost 3 feet, and festoon all of the oaks and pines here). The front garden needs SERIOUS work. I think maybe this weekend I’ll pull all of the weedy grasses out (at least you don’t have these devilish weedy annual grasses that invade like a plague and come up every spring )

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I think my next step now is to plan designing a patio garden which will consist mainly of pots to be strewn around the pool deck.. that’s a nice prospect, but I also have to think of a way to automatically irrigate them as I am not always around to water on a daily basis…

looking forward to that :biggrin:

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Yes, it’s a very big nursery. Two acres of land. To give you an idea of the variety of this nursery, they have:

Annuals
Perrenials
“cottage garden” plants
Australian natives
New Zealand natives
South African natives
California natives
fruit trees
roses
deciduous trees
Rhododendrons
Palms
Succulents.

I’ve seen everything from Proteas, Leucospermums, Olives, and Figs to roses, desert succulents, conifers, and bamboo!

You would probably die from delight if you were ever there. Up the road from there, there’s a slightly smaller nursery with similar things, but with more emphasis on perennials and trees.

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There are so many trees from the deserts around the world that it’s a shame that suitable ones (Other than Conocarpus) aren’t being located and promoted. Especially those with less agressive natures, like some of the Acacias.

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There are some in Saudi which are this big and probably have as much variety, I am yet to visit though. Thinking on it, there is one in Muharraq which might be the same size, it is huge and they have good varieties throughout the year. I’ve gotten a few plants from them.

I am remiss as far as indoors are concerned, those are really Frances’ bailiwick, except for the bulbs.

We used to have a lot of oleanders on the roads separating both directions, now we have very little of those and plenty of the Conocarpus.

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Whenever I drive to Los Angeles, along highway 101 near the town of Paso Robles, there’s Oleanders blossoming in the middle of the green strip between both directions of traffic. It’s quite beautiful.

While I was out, I visited my favorite nursery here (and picked up an Avocado tree). In the annuals section, they had lots of plants in bloom. I thought you’d like the following picture:

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It’s a bunch of different Cyclamen cultivars in full bloom. They also had a magenta Christmas Cactus I didn’t buy (I’ve got too many plants indoors as it is!)

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