Re: Great Tailed Grackles, Mourning Doves, and Me

On Sun, 18 May 2008 09:00:05 -0400, Boron Elgar
<boron_elgar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Sat, 17 May 2008 22:05:12 -0700, "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary
> Shafer)" <reunite.gondwana@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> >I just got a beautiful yellow crown of thorns plant.  It's in a pot
> >right now, but when it gets a little bigger it's going out to replace
> >a langui****ng lavender lantana. 
> 
> I have three different colors of crown of thorn plants, red, white and
> orange.. I love them. 

I have two red ones, which are the standard kind.  The new yellow one
is a Thai variety and has bigger flowers in bigger clusters.  It's
quite a bit fancier.  

> > I also got a nice maternity plant and
> >two mother-of-thousands plants.  They go into clay bowls, not regular
> >pots, so that the babies land on dirt and grow.
> 
> Plants like that can get crazy. I only grow mint in pots.

These won't grow outdoors here, as far as I know.  Anyway, the drip
irrigation keeps things from spreading too far.  Although I've got a
couple of sansevierias that have spread out nicely.

> >Mary "The chainsaw is the gardeners' favorite tool"
> 
> Don't forget the chipper....and eye and ear protection.

They don't use a chipper.  Nothing gets big enough around here to be
chipped.  They use leaf blowers to get the clippings onto tarps and
then bundle them up and take them away.

Up in Lancaster where we have good-sized trees we have the tree
service come every couple of years.  They "lace" the mulberries and
the liquidambar and get a huge stack of branches, which they then
chip.  It's quite a process, but the trees need to be thinned
regularly because of the winds.

> I emailed you a few days ago, did you get it?

Sure did.  I just sent you a reply, which is somewhat equivocal, as
you've probably seen by now.

Mary "The clumping fan palm comes down here next March"
-- 
Mary Shafer   Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote re****ts about it.
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