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After  the Master Gardner's Plant Sale,   we set off to a nursery near Daughter's apartment in Chico.  Actually,  just around the corner.   Little Red Hen Nursery in search of Native Lilac.  The Master Gardners had started some,  had them going,  but then they were forgotten with watering and alas,  none for sale.  There were none at Little Red Hen either but we wandered and i was so smiling.   Jenny says she cannot grow a thing.  Nothing.  a flat statement.  as if OVER.   But to see her in the midst of Plants,  both places is such a wonder.  She is all glowey and soft and pink cheeked,  just so Happy. Aren't we interesting??????

so we got this Pomegranate

 

 


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and another Fig

 


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she wanted these daisys f or Alyssia.   They are annuals,  but she wanted them for Alyssia.

 


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and here again,   the pic that was lost yesterday.   Here,  in the middle of grasslands,  no human habitat.  Along the shoulder of the road.  Walnut trees.  prolific.   How just so amazing is this?   It means so much.  

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16 responses to “how it is”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    are Osteospermum daisies an annual up there? Here in Australia they are tough as nails and will grow happily for years, just need a bit of a cut back when they get too scraggly & propagate easily by layering. Did the native lilac that you had awhile back give up the ghost?

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  2. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    Mo, are they native there? Have always associated them w/. South Africa and would love to know other places they might naturally occur.

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  3. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    so many different stories woven through these sentences and pictures …

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    Osteospermum daisies aren’t native to Australia but they grow very easily here.

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  5. Anita Avatar
    Anita

    Grace, I share your excitement and wonder at finding the walnut trees. Sounds like you had a wonderful time. Makes me smile too.-Anita.

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  6. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Yay for the walnuts but especially for your pomegranate: how terrific for both will give you wonderful dye colors. Walnut you know, don’t remember if you have dyed with pomegranate? Years ago I did, plunking in the pomegranate skin into a rusty enamel pot and getting an astonishing black color, totally unexpected. I knew that I would get a golden color when putting the skins in a copper pot and I did but another fascinating discovery was made when I plunked the pomegranate skins into an aluminum pot and got lavender!…a totally mystical and mysterious “alchemic” gift from pomegranate skins or maybe it was just the extraordinary water we had in Tennessee…nah! I think it was pomegranate magic!

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  7. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    amazing that you can grow pomegranates there. I saw them growing in South Africa for the first time. I was so surprised to see them and wanted to pick some but of course I didn’t. Maybe you can grow avocados too!! California is a paradise for growing.

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    Joanne

    Marti you have given me ideas for the pomegranate this Winter. I love to have something to experiment with. I am writing your pots and colors down. I have lots of copper pipe in the garage from the new radiators.

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  9. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Hope you got fabulous “pom” color Joanne. One thing to consider is the type of water you have. When grace lived here in New Mexico, we both took the same foraged materials, dyed them the same way but got different results- we figured that water was the difference. From research I’ve done with pom dyeing, no one seems to have gotten black or even lavender.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    i’ll see what happens with the daisies….maybe here
    in California they might go on?
    Yes…that dear lilac…i’m not sure why

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    happiness es are rising up, yes?

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    anita!!!!!…am trying to get in touch with you to order
    some of your cards…Email isn’t working!!!!

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    i wrote all this down…and also, i want to
    try the creek water

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    pomegranates would grow in New Mex. Never big fruits,
    but they grew and were Real. The old Mom and Pops had
    a few small trees along their fence in Socorro

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