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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] This and That
  • Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:00:51 -0800

We are having one weird winter. Temps average 5-10 degrees each night. Not
the usual. No snow. Not the norm. No rain. Not the norm.

So, we had all kinds of indoor projects planned because this time of the
year we should have been staying indoors keeping dry and warm. Instead,
daytime temps are up to 60, so we've been outside doing things we were going
to do in the spring.

We're adding more raised beds. Put in another 11 trees (apple, cherry,
plum, apricot, almond). We extended the "frontyard" and moved roses. Have
8 more to move. We moved rhodies, azaleas and planted bulbs.

To understand what happened next, you need to understand that DH is a Type
AAA personality. Not a Type A. Nooooo, that would be too easy to live
with. He's a type AAA! And that's without coffee <g> This is our third
winter here and he's cleared all the brush on 9 acres. Hauled all the old
useless junk to the dump. Put up carports. Built storage sheds. Built an
A-frame chicken coop. Put up about 500' of split rail fencing. Fenced in
my "new" garden area (the old one you may remember has too much water, which
of course can't be true since this is California <g>). He's split the wood
to build a pergola for the front deck.

Now he's bored. He wants a park area with specimen trees and exotic and
rare shrubs. He wants a dry creek bed and plans to build a bridge over it.
He designed plans (he used to do architectural drafting in another life) for
a gazebo. So tomorrow he is off to buy a roll of field fencing to fence
off his "park" and I'm supposed to find a list of trees and shrubs.

With that in mind, anyone have any favorites (trees or shrubs that flower)
that will grow well where the temps reach zero in the winter and 110 in the
summer? Then again, they don't necessarily have to supposed like this type
of weather since all of my redwoods are doing quite well and growing like
crazy!

Lynda





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