Category: Gardening (Page 1 of 167)

After school yesterday, there was a box of oranges in the pick-up area. People do this a lot. Apparently, citrus trees are really easy to grow here. It seems to be a lot more common (and maybe easier) than in Hawaii. Interesting. Maybe I’ll try it once I get my front-yard garden going…

Spring is sprunging in my garden! Yay! The roses that I pruned in January are vigorously growing and will be covered with flowers in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, the freesias are starting to bloom. Mmm… they smell so good…

In the back yard, things are slowly waking up. The big surprise of the spring is that a nasturtium root or seed survived and is growing again. Yay, nasturtiums!

I did some errands at home yesterday. In the morning, I did a little garden work. My on-going project is the small planter bed against the house. I want to plant my spikemoss there, but it’s full of rocks. I’ve been scooping out a little each week and putting it in my trash can. Maybe I could take care of it all at once if I went to the dump, but I don’t know where that is. And honestly, I’m a little confused about where I officially live. Torrance? LA County? LA City? I should probably figure that out…

Anyway, here’s yesterday’s before and after:

Well, it’s another plant post, but I have to show this picture I took of the orchids in my bathroom. They have had blooms on them for almost a year now. Actually, I don’t really remember how long it’s been, but I can’t think of a time I didn’t have at least some flowers going. And right now, they’re ALL blooming!

I like all of them for different reasons, but my favorite right now is the one second from the left, because of its scent. It smells like a campfire! I posted about it before, but I just had to say again how much I like it! 🙂

Saturday morning, when I went out the front door, my porch was messed up. There was dirt all over it, my hose was out, and one of the plants was moved.

As I came farther out, I saw that my rose bush bed was dug out. It was crazy!

There were smudges on my mailbox and on the frame of the house. They looked like hand prints, so I thought it was a person.

Why would a person dig through my plants? Were they crazy? Were they drunk? It creeped me out. I texted my neighbors on either side of the house to give them a heads up.

After he got a look at the digging, one of my neighbors said he recognized the dig patterns. He said it was racoons. Whew! I mean, I don’t like that racoons dug my plants, but I’m glad it wasn’t some weird person.