MAI GARDENS
May. 18th, 2008 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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This is my new azalea tree:
I've never been partial to azaleas but this doesn't look like something that would grow in the north. I'm in so much zone denial it isn't even funny, so when I found out this was a perennial I just about peed my pants. It bloomed yesterday and it smells amazing. I never knew azaleas even had a smell.
My aviary as it looks this year:
Currently only one birs is in there, a grackle named Car. Last night two cats kept climbing all over it. Eventually I took the dogs out on leashes to scare them away. Then I threw orange peels on the top of it. I hope that works because the little bastards were really annoying me.
These are my bird graves:
Those are for my really special birds: Ray, Lil Jon and Cassidy.
This is Pendragon's garden:
The little statue broke and I need to find a new one. It kinda broke my heart a little. But that is eucalyptus you see back there. The lady at the nursery said it was a "delicate perennial" and if I covered it in the winter, it would probably come back. So I had to try. (ZONE DENIAL.)
My front door and some lilacs and irises:
This is how my pond is looking this year:
What looks like underwear hanging back there is actually Tibetan prayer flags. ^_^
This is my pond at night:
And this is another view of the garden outside the sunroom, where the azaleas are:
I've got many of my indoor winter plants out there, too. I just have to see to it that they don't get sunburned, as a few of them already have. Notably Adam Lazzara (that's the purple tai plant. I named it that because it was just so weird.) Also out there I have my hibiscus (also sunburned) and gardenia, which has seven buds on it. Also, that is, in fact, a palm tree you see trying to grow there. It's a windmill palm, the only kind that can grow up north here (ZONE DENIAL) but it never gets any bigger than that
and I've had it for three years. I could buy a bigger one, but they're expensive and risky.
And this is Trisky's garden from the other day:
And that's it!
This is my new azalea tree:
I've never been partial to azaleas but this doesn't look like something that would grow in the north. I'm in so much zone denial it isn't even funny, so when I found out this was a perennial I just about peed my pants. It bloomed yesterday and it smells amazing. I never knew azaleas even had a smell.
My aviary as it looks this year:
Currently only one birs is in there, a grackle named Car. Last night two cats kept climbing all over it. Eventually I took the dogs out on leashes to scare them away. Then I threw orange peels on the top of it. I hope that works because the little bastards were really annoying me.
These are my bird graves:
Those are for my really special birds: Ray, Lil Jon and Cassidy.
This is Pendragon's garden:
The little statue broke and I need to find a new one. It kinda broke my heart a little. But that is eucalyptus you see back there. The lady at the nursery said it was a "delicate perennial" and if I covered it in the winter, it would probably come back. So I had to try. (ZONE DENIAL.)
My front door and some lilacs and irises:
This is how my pond is looking this year:
What looks like underwear hanging back there is actually Tibetan prayer flags. ^_^
This is my pond at night:
And this is another view of the garden outside the sunroom, where the azaleas are:
I've got many of my indoor winter plants out there, too. I just have to see to it that they don't get sunburned, as a few of them already have. Notably Adam Lazzara (that's the purple tai plant. I named it that because it was just so weird.) Also out there I have my hibiscus (also sunburned) and gardenia, which has seven buds on it. Also, that is, in fact, a palm tree you see trying to grow there. It's a windmill palm, the only kind that can grow up north here (ZONE DENIAL) but it never gets any bigger than that
and I've had it for three years. I could buy a bigger one, but they're expensive and risky.
And this is Trisky's garden from the other day:
And that's it!
