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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Friday, October 11, 2024 - 2:34 pm 
I am doing a Service Day tomorrow, to refresh the library gardens. Someone got 37 plants!!! Thank goodness there will be a bunch of people there to get them into the ground.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Friday, October 11, 2024 - 3:57 pm
Good Dipo!
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Saturday, October 12, 2024 - 11:24 am
Everything is planted, all 43 of them. Still some beds need work if I’m going to plant more this year but even if I don’t plant more this year time spent now would not be wasted.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Saturday, October 12, 2024 - 9:18 pm
LOL, we got almost everything planted. All the little kids were funny helping dig in the dirt and plant stuff. A great time was had by all.
Yeah! Mack, everything is planted, now you can just enjoy and spiff up any areas you think need it, LOL.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Sunday, October 13, 2024 - 6:29 am
Truth is I’m only about 1/3 through my final and still evolving vision for the backyard. Even though our growing season here is pretty long nurseries have fewer and fewer of the plants I want or need. Some plantings need to wait until the spring so the plants will have all spring and summer to establish themselves before the next winter.
One thing that is frustrating for me is our lack of topsoil in this part of town. We live north of San Antonio in what is the start of hill country so we’re basically on solid limestone rock. Digging even a 5” deep hole for a plant takes quite of bit of effort. What should take a few minutes in some locals takes 15-20 minutes here. Even then it often means adding garden and top soil to build up the beds. Add to that it has only “cooled off” to the mid 90s and it’s a challenge for this old man.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 6:25 am
OK the planted plant count is now up to 46. When I dropped Mrs Mack off at the airport Monday I drove past one of the nursery I use. Darn car pulled right into the parking lot. Wandered around and saw a few plants I wanted to add to the lot. Three made it home with me. 😬
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 10:00 am
Hahahahaha, that nursery has a tracking beam on you!
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Wednesday, October 23, 2024 - 2:34 pm
Updated plant count: 50. 🙂
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Friday, November 01, 2024 - 10:52 am
Updated plant count: 56. 😬
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Friday, November 01, 2024 - 11:43 am
We want pictures! 
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 4:58 pm
Nothing is fully completed. Plus because of my soil depth conditions I had to go with smaller plants. Will take a season or more to buy the right plants and for them to mature to be picture worthy. Being early November not much will happen until next spring.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 7:29 pm
Yeah, but I sorta recall spring beginning in February in Texas, when maybe the mountain laurels bloom? And the buttercups and Indian paintbrush, followed not long thereafter by the bluebonnets?
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Friday, November 15, 2024 - 4:11 pm
True that Juju. Turns out I went to HEB….a Texas giant grocery store….and they have a garden center with a small section of Texas native plants. I wasn’t expecting it and actually figured I was done until next year but they have a shipment of Black-eyed Susans that look pretty nice and they are on sale. Didn’t buy today but came home and figured out where I would plant them and how many. Looks like I’ll be buying more plants tomorrow. 😬
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Friday, November 15, 2024 - 8:15 pm
I love HEB and look forward to going there every winter when we return to South Padre Island, where we arrived on Halloween, staying until Jan. 31.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Saturday, November 16, 2024 - 11:14 am
OK…..went to the HEB garden center and bought the plants. Actually three more got in the cart so came home with 11. That does not count a Christmas cactus for inside the house. Will probably plant them today or tomorrow.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 6:21 pm
I think…I hope…I have planted the last addition to my evolving Texas native butterfly garden this year. Today I planted 13 more plants so my count is now 69 plants since I started. Not sure how many more I’ll plant next year but it easily could be close to that number based on the areas I still have room and need to plant. I also decided to plant in an area that is totally out of sight by my pool equipment. That will be my lowest priority and may or may not happen even next year.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 6:52 pm
I should say this effort is not a plant and forget effort. I have to prune, dead head, mulch, water, weed, etc., etc. I kind of knew going into this that I was embarking on a more involved and somewhat labor demanding adventure than just sitting on my patio by the pool drinking adult beverages. My reward for this effort has been a visually slowly evolving more colorful and welcoming environment. I have also seen more humming birds and butterflies like monarches, queens, swallowtails, and others I haven’t identified. I am kind of surprised at how simple things like a hummingbird or butterfly bring me a smile and happiness.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 8:50 pm
Oh, Mack, welcome to geezerhood, where there is almost nothing more delightful than watching hummingbirds. Luckily where I live in coastal WA there are only two kinds, so I can expound at length on both of them based on my personal observations and a bit of book learning.
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