Westerns Growing up in the ’50s and ’60s , Westerns were television staples… Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Rawhide, The Lone Ranger, Rin Tin Tin, and many more that I have forgotten. There were too many western movies for me to begin to count… Broken Arrow, The Gunfighter, High Noon, etc. Invariably, the cowboy hero gets lost or […]
Entries Tagged as 'Backyard Garden'
NOT Crawling Through the Desert Looking for Water
December 20th, 2012 8 Comments
Tags: cactus · cactus flowers · cactus fruit · Westerns
History of Wilmot Yard
December 10th, 2012 5 Comments
Really Old Plants and Trees When I posted the bougainvillea story last week, I mentioned the ‘old lady’ of my yard… a magenta bougainvillea about 80 years old. Magenta Bougainvillea It got me to thinking about the other plants and trees that were in this yard 40 years ago and the ones that are still […]
Tags: Alphonso mangos · avocado · Bougainvillea · calamondin · citrus canker · coconut palms · Florida wild green parrots · grapefruit · Haden Mangos · Hurricane Francis · Hurricane Wilma · Indian mangos · key lime · lethal yellowing · naval orange · Royal palms · sapodilla · Surinam Cherries · tangelo · tangerine
Evolving Blog – Gardening and a Whole Lot More
November 26th, 2012 No Comments
The Beginning Back in January of 2009, my son, Matt, decided to make an above ground, or raised, garden. First Raised Garden He built it, filled it with dirt, planted all sorts of veggies and aimed a 24-hour webcam at the box. Then, he began to write about it on this blog called ‘watch my […]
Tags: Construction of Raised Garden · dogs · flowers · garden pests · Green Market · Raised Garden · redbud tree · Tomato Hornworm · trees
