tz_garden

"I see the exhibits are currently closed."  James last week when he came home to the shade cloth coverings up here and there, again.   I thought I'd be taking them down Saturday FOR GOOD, nope the 100°'s stuck around, down to 94° today.  I'll take them down tomorrow, 78°!!!  I'm going to need long sleeves!  Since it was a little cooler, I went out and fooled all the plants into thinking we were having an Arizona style monsoon.   And took photos of the areas that felt cool, even in the hot weather.  This will be a short post ;). One more pic of Yucca rostrata, just because she's so dang pretty. With the palm trees getting taller, this slope area above the pool gets a really nice dappled sun in the afternoon. Sweet rosy rosettes of Aeonium, In front of a plane touchdown, these sunburst Aeonium are in the full shade, so they continue to look lovely in the summer. And under them, every year I find this dirt clod thing - I thought it was a bee or wasp nest.  If

👎 to 100°s this week. Gross.  Humidity is 12%, . I AM grateful the nights cool down, which makes the mornings comfortable.  My oldest daughter Sophia and her partner Ivan spent Labor Day weekend with us, and Ivan is always up for some labor! He started his attack in this back dark corner by pruning the 3 Cotinus -purple smokebush.  I like the color, but dang that smell is overwhelming when you cut them.   And then as he kept offering to "clean this or that up", an old rose bush was removed along with some agaves (I don't remember planting them there, but there they were!), dead palm leaves & nuts, the stout Yucca and one of the trio of smokebush.  What took him 2 hours would've taken me a full day if not 2! THANKS IVAN! Sophia and I were inside making homemade Bao for dinner, at least we fed him. My goodness, they were delicious!  I had not made them before, the hoison eggplant were my favorite. I did some clean-up myself, after his feats of strength!  And talk a