spring summer 2010

i decided to stop torturing my facebook friends with my garden updates and start a journal here. i won't try and catch up what i've been doing with the land for the past year and a half, okay, i won't try to do it in detail. so far, this is a list of what i have in the ground in terms of permanent status:

trees & woody perennials:

four blueberry bushes in their own bordered bed (planted spring of 2009)

two pineapple guava (five gallon nursery finds. spring 2010)

two cherry elaeagnus (sticks from ebay. spring 2010)

one bay tree (put in the ground spring 2010. have had in a pot since about 2000)

pink satin pomegranate (coveted variety i paid dearly for. spring 2010. )

another bay tree (i found at a nursery 2010)
t
exas white redbud (had in a pot since 2006. aquired in birmingham, al. put in the ground spring 2010)

dwarf pomegranante (same story as the white redbud)

dynamite crepe myrtle (the tree i got at the nursery i was employed at in birmingham while i
was pregnant with my daughter. it made it in the ground spring 2010)

brown turkey fig tree (spring 2009)

two paw paw trees (spring 2009)

lemon tree (spring 2010)

satsuma tree (spring 2009)

sweet kumquat tree (spring 2010)

loquat tree (spring 2010)


herbaceous perennials:
swamp lillies (dug up and planted and/or potted spring 2010)
red button ginger (spring 2010)
two banana trees (spring 2010)
cyperus (spring 2010)
LA iris (spring 2010)
white iris (spring 2010)
persian shield (spring 2010)
various salvias/sages (spring 2009 & 2010)
white echinacea
shrimp plant
bee balm
akebia
........*sigh*


i have two cinder block raised beds i plant herbs and veggies in. they went in spring 2009.
i put an addition in 2010.

i have trees i'm planning on putting in the ground this fall:

cinniman apple tree
strawberry apple tree
cherry tree
fig tree (LSU purple?)....

trying.....
to resist the mundaneness of this intro. perhaps i'll just stop here and let it be.