Road trip!
Sophia and I share the same birthday (she is the BEST birthday present EVER). We all decided a little road trip to Los Angeles was in store. Visiting The Huntington was at the top of my list. But before we left, I was feeling that my own golden barrel display on the slope was taking up too much valuable real estate and not really what I want it to be. So, the day before we left (I should have been packing!) I got to work. Another issue, with the palm trees getting taller - and other plants will get taller. The barrels get shaded, the best part of a golden display is when they are backlit at sunrise or sundown, imho. Big boy above the pool and his smaller friends are staying put. The first one I dug up, completely rotten! I had no idea, this was my favorite one - it was growing strangely -almost square. Like one of those Japanese watermelon Shikaku Suika growing in a box to keep the square shape. Thankfully, that was the o...