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also why I have not gone to wild with planting anything right now
The house is for sale????? :roll:
Have a beer ready for the prospective new owner...maybe he'll be a palm / cactus nut and all will be fine.

If he doesn't keep the apartments, I'll help you dig out all those beauties and help you move. :lol:
Hell, we'll all come!
Right, folks?

It would make me sick to my stomach to think you're leaving those spectacular plants there.

Oh man, now I'm gonna worry about you. :cry:

Barb

EDIT: not gone too wild to plant anything more? ha ha, it's coz you've run out of plantable space. Except the roof. :lol:


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7'-8".........how much did the Sequoiadendron grow last season? :shock:
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Jim, all hopes that the new owner sees what you did to the yard, and FORCES you to stay and continue! If not, maybe a bigger yard in the future:P

Tim - that was my reaction..... I had no idea that they crept for a few years then can just go absolutely nuts! There is a guy who is cloning the largest and oldest ones to use as carbon sinks and help reforest some of NA.
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TimMAz6 wrote:7'-8".........how much did the Sequoiadendron grow last season? :shock:
Couple feet at least in pretty dry last few years years of drought.


We have had lots of rain this spring so it should blast off!


Jesse

Hopefully I will be able to stay or at last come across some thing in the next month that would work...
so I can get the plants moved early enough...if they are coming,no guarantee I can find a place
were they can be moved to but I ain't there yet so why worry................? :)
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Few more pics...the Claret cup has begun blooming somehow,with all this rain...

the flowers do seem waterproof on this one. :)




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I will have too add a better picture later as the color of these flowers,fully opened in the sun is spectacular.

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Love THAT color, Jim.
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How long do the flowers last?
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marceli wrote:How long do the flowers last?
thanks lucky1



I was checking them out today wondering
how they lasted through all the rain and they are fake,
my neighbor put them on there.
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I was checking them out today wondering
how they lasted through all the rain and they are fake,
my neighbor put them on there.
Creative neighbor :lol:
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Apparently she pulls some kind of string to open them....some more.


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The bottom flower is the oldest,notice anything different about it?


Just noticed a bunch more are blooming....so,
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They look amazing! 8) Do they attract butterflies or hummingbirds maybe?
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Have not seen any...I will keep an eye out as they say...


They are a nice little stand of cactus and flowers,that
is a pretty dang big clump for a low growing barrel-esk plant!
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