MAI GARDENS

[la_belle_laide]

LET ME SHOW U THEM

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!

Comments

Pretty flowers!

[bashou.livejournal.com]

Orange peels don't seem to work with all cats. Pythons may be the way to go.*

*Note: Don't use this tactic during winter.

Re: Pretty flowers!

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Pythons, I'll keep that in mind if I ever have problems with children trying to break in.

Re: Pretty flowers!

[bashou.livejournal.com]

Children are just gigantic pinkies, anyhow.

[reanimated.livejournal.com]

very pretty. and yay azaleas! i think you're a southerner at heart. ;-) we always had the yard full of them growing up. my parents put nothing but azaleas in the backyard of our old house. some were this pinkish red, and some were magenta. so cool. they have a TON of them at the botanical gardens in north houston.

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

Yep, serious zone denial. I had no idea they smelled good though. The lady who sold them said they'd come back next winter. All you see is azaleas around here, but I've never seen or smelled ones like these. ^_^

[reanimated.livejournal.com]

winter, really? we always had ours blooming in the hot ass texas summer. o_0 weird.

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

I'm retarded, I meant to say that they would last over the winter. Don't mind me. ;)