Saturday, April 28, 2007

Lilies, Shrooms and an Occaisional Grumple.

The bulbs we planted are doing FANTASTIC. They have grown a lot in just under a month. The question I just started asking myself is: How big do they get? Well I decided to actually look at the information about the bulbs we planted and came up with a shocking answer...


3 FEET!




I picked these because I wanted to try some bulbs and they were very cheap at the Garden Show. They had a "Plant now for summer blooms"sign on them and the orange color on the picture reminded me of my grandma's Tiger Lilies so I was sold. I never really looked a the tag. Jennifer is always telling me to "pay more attention" and this may turn out to be a time when I should head her advice. I think I am going to have to stake them down so they grow in a controlled manner. I looked them up online and they look like this!

They are really impressive. If we have four of these blooming this summer this tree is going to look amazing. I really hope they make it.





In other news we had a quasi-Grumple visit. Someone pulled out all of the wildflower sprouts on one tree and about half of them on another. Jennifer thinks they were "weeding" and then realized they were flowers but who knows. Just another set back. When you plant on the street you take your chances.



I am very much into the idea of trying out some pots on the sidewalk and seeing if they make it. I am going to write our city supervisor to see if there are any city regulations against it. I would really like to make Fillmore look like Noe. I was talking to a neighbor at Fillmore and Waller and they have done some amazing things on the street. They have really shown me what is possible. I now have a goal in mind. Lets hope I have the follow through. I did manage to get off my butt and offer to do some more trees near the church on the corner. I hope they are into it. I can really sense that more and more people around the neighborhood are into planting!





We also have a mushroom growing on one tree .

It is pretty cute. Nice to look at but we sure are not gonna eat it!






Friday, April 13, 2007

Bulbus Eruptus


2 of the bulbs we got at the garden show have start to sprout.

We are really happy! Now we have to control the slugs that have already started eating them. :-(


Sunday, April 1, 2007

Another Beautiful Sunday

We had another wonderful weekend spending time working on plants. On Saturday I put up a new windowbox. On Sunday we went out to Sloat Garden Center and picked up lots of new plants. We got enough to fill the new window box and even had a few left to add to one of the trees out front. Things are looking good. We also got a bunch of impatiens. Jennifer made a couple containers and placed them on our back porch. We are trying out some copper tape on these new containers to see if they will stop those darn slugs.

One down point... I walked by some young street type kid urinating all over one of the trees where we had just reseeded and planted some bulbs. Urban guerrilla gardening presents more challenges then you can imagine! I told him I did not appreciate it, he could give a damn about my opinion. Hopefully I have not "baited the Grumple". I want people to respect our beautiful city. I know this is a crazy dream and we are crazy dreamers. Hopefully the flowers we put encourage people to care just a little more about their surroundings. That is what we really want to do.