its a rainy day, the perfect time to curl up by the fire with my new kitty and garden books...
mystery must have lived here before, the first night I crawled in bed I heard a cat yowling on my deck, my heart stopped, I have enough cats... for the next few months anytime I was at the house I spied her, at the barn, hunting, on the deck, at the back door, drinking from our fountains, she was ever present. and skinny... I cannot turn my eyes from animals in need. soon she was sleeping on the deck nightly...
I was bringing her food one morning with fuzzy slippers on, she RACED to me, I was afraid she was going to attack my feet as prey, then she began weaving round my legs, she wasn't feral! I quickly called a clinic to get in my little mystery cat, scooped her up and locked her in a bathroom for a week in case she had anything contagious. fast forward, she is one the THE BEST cats I have ever owned! poor thing had been shot, she is barely a year old, but she has zero fear. she is as loyal and smart as my border collie, she comes running to her name every time. she fits in perfect with the other cats and plays with katie. we named her mysty, she is our mystery, and for the mists that weave through the hills and her soft gray fur...
on to the garden, I like to keep records, at my age I need to remember what names I planted!
trees planted
from the crescent ...
variegated box elder
star magnolia
white dogwood 4
florabunda crabapple
White dogwood
akebono cherry tree
mt Fuji cherry
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lawsons cypress
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Star Jasmine
Pink Jasmine
White clematis armandii early sensation
Guernsey cream clematis
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Almond tree
Lawson cypress
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mt Fuji cherry
akebono cherry
dogwood
florabunda crabapple
star magnolia
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Japanese maple
to north perimeter...
texas privet 8
green giant thuja 10
deodor 3
tupelo 2
lawsons cypress
green giant 6
redwood 5
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prunus blireana
Krauter Vesuvius Purple Leaf Plum 2
trident maple
blue point junipe
Fort mncnair horse chestnut red
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7 green giant thuja
lawsons cypress
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pin oak or red maple
ginko
red maple
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japanese maple
nandina
Japanese maple
Red oak/maple
baileys acacia
maple
china berry 3
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(sango kaku coral bark maple
Blood leaf Japanese maple
butterfly maple (variegated))
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photinia
thuja yellow ribbon 3
liquid amber burgundy 3
Raywood ash
tafts golden cypress
box elder
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festival liquid amber 7
corckscrew willow
Vitex blue
silver dollar eucalptus
ca pepper tree
Bradford pear
red maple
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jaquemonti birch 2
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Chinese pistache 3
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aspen
deodora
Rose garden
Green giant 20
Laburnum 2
entrance...
15 moonglow juniper
16 green giant thuja
16 moon glow juniper
6 Bradford pear
5 Italian cypress
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5 Italian cypress
6 Bradford pear
16 green giant thuja
16 moon glow juniper
3 Italian cypress
Dollywood...
native pines 4
Arizona cypress
oleander pink standard
oleander white standard
oleander pink standard 2
redwood 3
green giant 3
redwood 4
green giant 2
redwood gray 2
native pine
green giant 2
redwood 3
green giant 3
redwood 5
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ginkgo 6
red maple 5
gingko 6
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Chinese pistache 10
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Redwood 4
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California buckeye 2
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sekkan sugi japenese cedar
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lavender crepe myrtle
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Snow drift crabapple 2
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baileys acacia
purple fountain beech
nigra magnolia
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eastern redbud 3
Blood leaf Japanese maple
western redbud 3
black diamond purely purple crepe myrtle 2
black lace sambucca
peppermint lace crepe myrtle 2
redwoods 6
Smoke tree royal purple 2
black walnut
baileys acacia
coffee cake persimmon
hychiya persimmon
west perimeter...
(see orchard)
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yoshino cherry
front yard...
10 sky rocket juniper
ceonothus ray hartman
3 wilsonii olives
6 meyers lemons
eureka lemon
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Ca pepper
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2 wonderful pomegranates
pink crepe myrtle
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radiant red crepe myrtles 3
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3 arbequina olive trees8
lawsons cypress
2 evergreen pears
robinia purple robe
red sunset maple (center)
raywood ash
autumn blaze maple (left)
oct glory maple (right)
liquid amber
black diamond radiant red crepe myrtle 3
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2 Cleveland pears
Bradford pear (center)
rose garden
2 golden chain