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Coming through the front gate and walking up about 20 feet this path leads up the east side of the house to our gazebo, where we spend a lot of afternoons and evenings. Ed's succulant garden is on the left. When he put it in there were gladiola's, among other plants in the space. We moved everything else, but the gladiolas were at a point in thier cycle that we couldn't move them. I keep meaning to, but they remain, somewhat of a non-sequitor in the otherwise mini-desert environment.
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From the same point in the path, turning the other direction back towards the gate. The herb garden is on the right, rosemary, lavender, several sages, several thymes, echinacia, lobelia, valarian, marsh mallow, comfry, and others. The nasturtiums draw many humming birds which we enjoy all spring and summer. Jasmine, geraniums and other flowers on the left.
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Last year the kids showed up with a pond liner from a neighbor. We've been playing with it ever since. We have about 20 gold fish of varying sizes and colors, and a few plants in the water. We used shells to make a waterfall. Our small pond is surrounded with all manner of plants; trumpet flowers, fuscia, violet, maple, dusty miller, bullrush, grasses, irises, hens and chicks, and many other plants that provide a mix of color and texture
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One of our recents additions, a Ginko tree. We gave this to Ed as part of Father's Day
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Every spring one small local community holds a "plant exchange". We have gotten many treasures there over the years, including the rhizomes for these Lillies we put in last May. All we knew was that they were lillies. Our surprise were these beautiful creamy peach colored flowers. They remind me of creamsicles.
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I haven't grown poppies in years. We found these at our local Farmer's Market this year and have been very pleased with the display
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The ultimate in small space gardening, our veggie garden. Although mostly salad stuff, there are a few other things. All in all there are: 3 kinds of lettuce, 3 kinds of beets, bunching onions, bush green beans, sugar snap peas, Walla Walla onions, leeks, spinach, 2 kinds of carrots, radishes, eggplant, broccoli, strawberries, asparagus, cucumber, acorn squash, zuccini, crooked neck squash, and 2 kinds of tomatoes.
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We had some very hard freezes this year, which we are not accustomed to here on the coast (Humboldt Bay is about 1/2 mile away). We thought we'd lost this young tree, but the flowering maple survived!
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When we first got this place and were surrounded only by weeds and uneven ground, my boss at the time gave me a few sticks and promised delicious flowers if I put them in the ground. We have enjoyed this huge fuscia bush ever since.
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This is the first plant, a San Pedro, Ed personally put into the garden. He and my son dug a deep trench (looked like a grave for two head to toe when it was open) and refilled it with layers of gravel and sand mixed with loose soil to give succulants a medium in which they would be happy. This single specimen has been joined by many others
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This Blue Agave is another of the succulants in Ed's succulant garden. He has named this one "Cuate" for his father.
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We also have a small collection of house plants, among them some orchids
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No this doesn't live outside, I just put it there for the photo
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