After a super dry January, we're are finally getting some rain. Followed by a few cccccold mornings. The kiss of death for one plant or another I'm sure. Wet ground, dappling with close to freezing isn't good for my garden. When we do hit 32° or a few degrees below, it's usually from 4am-6am - so a few hours at most. *Knock on wood! *From inside the guest bedroom, Sophia's old bedroom.
I've clipped a couple poly panels up to keep some rain off the mammillaria and a group of Pilocereus. They hate wet, maybe as much as Dr. Feelgood.
Pensive and a little ticked about the rain. You'd never make it in Oregon buddy. *I can't wait for that carpet to be outta here!
As I'm stuck inside cleaning out closets and under beds, I keep looking outside. Cleaning is not nearly as much fun as being outside :(. It occurred to me I could post from upstairs and show a broader view. I maximized the photo so everything looks shrunken. This view is the side of our house. The little part of the "L". Greenhouse/veg garden area. Raised beds have shallots/walla walla sweet onions & peas in the other. Covered to keep raccoons out. Between the raised beds and the fence; (the mulched area) avocado, lemon, lime, bananas, loquat, and a dwarf apple tree.
A little to the left.
Zooming out a little further. The fire lane on the outside of our fence is a walk through only lane, no traffic. I do catch people peeking in through holes in the fence. I would totally do that, so doesn't bother me.
I think this is maximum Zoom, haha. You can kinda see the d.g. pathways, not as well as I hoped. The pathway nearest the fence/firelane has been covered by reflection.
Little more to the right. This is distorted, lol - A. Hercules looks very stumpy but must be at least 10' tall, I haven't measured.
Last one of the back, pool area. This picture is like a shrinky dink! *I should've take this from an upstairs bedroom, but O is sleeping. The wind brought down that big palm branch. I need to go dangle on it and see if it easily detaches.
The very boring soggy front garden (from front room).
Other boring soggy front garden (from the dining room).
I shouldn't be so crabby about the rain, we're in a deficit. As Jeff Ranieri, NBC Bay Area Meteorologist explained last night. Santa Rosa and Napa area have been hammered! It's really the cold that follows that brings feelings of doom. I'll toss around some frost covers this afternoon and hope for the best!
Then I'm thinking a good time to pack up the bar cart would be... hmmm 4:30 pm?
What is your current weather like?
We get even more of an idea aof the number of plants from these views.
ReplyDeleteThank you Anvil, it's hard to take pics with screens on most of the windows.
DeleteI love looking at your garden from the birds eye view. FUN!
ReplyDeleteToday we are having 40 mph wind making it CrAzY to do anything outside. Saturday we are to have a snow storm... 8 inches of snow.
On Wisconsin! ;-)
Thank you Carla, 40 mph! Dang that's serious, I much prefer your upcoming 8" of snow to that kind of wind! I bet it will be beautiful.
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