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Enjoying Nature's Perfection....................... & Human Imperfection

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Polygala Myrtifolia

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Labels: drought tolerant, easy to grow, flower all year

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"I am a pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet & viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically & dictatorially."

E. B. White

WHERE?
Central Florida. Orlando area. Zone 9B-ish.

WHO?
Two people crazy about all things outdoorsy.
One doing most of the planting, writing and pic taking.
The other lovingly supporting this typer's addiction in every conceivable way.

WHAT?
Sustainable gardening.
Some saving ideas.
Some artsy fartsy stuff.
Some food politics rantings.
Birds.
Garden creatures.
Cats...perhaps too many?
Dogs...in the future.

HOW?
Lots of experimenting & a little following instructions set by others before us.

WHY blog about it?
To track the garden's evolution.
To share stuff we've learned.
To use as a to-do list.
To hang our photos.

Comments are welcome! But please don't tag me, tweet me or poke me. That would be the end of us.

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." —

E.B. White (Letters of E. B. White)

HOORAY!

Looking for a particular plant?

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Generally speaking, you'll be able to find one or more pictures, the positives and negatives I have experienced with each specimen in my zone 9B, and where I was able to purchase the plant/seeds.



LOCAL EFFORTS

Please visit the Edible Plant Project! Tons of neat, easy, unusual & underappreciated edibles for Florida. Plus, friendly & knowleadgeable people!

Also, visit the Florida School for Holistic Living located just minutes for downtown Orlando. Lots of neat classes and warm welcoming people.



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Fruits in the garden

Passion Fruit
Sapodilla
Eureka Lemon x3

Meyer Lemon
Persian Lime

Key Lime
Thornless Key Lime
Calamondin Orange
Orange (unknown cultivar)

Orange Valencia
Orange Hamlin
Ponkan Mandarin
Kumquat (Meiwa, I think)
Loquats x 2

Elderberry
Barbados Cherry
Grumichamas
Cherry of the Rio Grande

Feijoa x 2
Ugni Molinae--Chilean Guava x2
Blueberry x2
Miracle fruit
Pitomba
White Sapote

Mexican Papaya
Bunch Grape (unknown cultivar)
Muscadine Grape
Issai Self Fertile Kiwi
Kiwi of unknown cultivar

Fig Brown Turkey x 2
Peach x 2 (unknown cultivar)
Star Fruit
Moringa (not technically a fruit but edible)
Pomegranate
Longan
Blackberries (Navajo, Apache & Dickson)
Fuyu Persimon
Giraldi Dwarf Mulberry
Shangri-La Mulberry

Jujube Li
Jujube Lang

Seedlings
Goji Berry
Sugar Apple Anonna Squamosa
Eureka Lemon
Indian Jujube
Pear x 2 (unknown cultivar)

Limequat x 2
Loquat x4 (unknown cultivar)

Plants I will not love again

**To see pics and additional info go to the top left of the blog and type the plant's name in the "search blog" box**

♠ Bolivian Sunflower (Tithonia diversifolia). Lovely IF you have the space for a gigantic shrub.
♠ Mexican Petunia (Ruellia brittoniana)...weedy!
♠ White Buttercup- Pic posted on June 6. Lovely but becomes very weedy in the end.
♠ Spider plant...in pots it is okay, but when planted on the ground...oh boy, talk about weedy!
♠ Potato vine, the regular fast spreading ground cover sold in stores. Impossible to ever get rid of!


BIRDS ON STAFF

BIRDS ON STAFF

Northern Cardinal
Black Sparrow
Blue Jay
Red Shouldered Hawk
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Carolina Wren
Tufted Titmouse
Northern Mockingbird
Eastern Towhee
Mourning Dove
Carolina Chickadee
Red-Winged Black Bird
Painted Bounty
Brown Thrasher
Ruby-throated hummer
Grey Catbird
Sandhill Crane
Motled Ducks
White Ibis

ASSORTED CRITTERS
Anole lizards
Tree frogs
Assorted frogs and toads
Black racer snakes
Dragon flies
Lady bugs
Bad bugs whose presence I won't dignify by naming them here ☺

BUTTERFLIES ON STAFF

BUTTERFLIES ON STAFF
Monarch
Zebra Longwing
Palamedes Swallowtail

Spicebush Swallowtail
Cassius Blue

Buckeye
Gulf Fritillary
White Peacock
Tiger Swallowtail
Giant Swallowtail
American Painted Lady
Pearl Crescent
Pipevine Swallowtail

Black Swallowtail
Red-Banded Hairstreak
Viceroy
Cloudless Sulphur
Cassius Blue
Red Admiral

Long-Tailed Skipper
Julia

BLOG LOVE

  • Bifurcated Carrots
  • Scarecrow's Garden
  • pencil and leaf
  • Eat The Weeds
  • The Vegetable Garden
  • Buglady

Jackson Collins

Food for Thought

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WANTS

Wish I could say these are needs...

Pepper vine
Tropical quince
Camelia siniensis
Persimon-Tankam
Fig-LSU purple dwarf
Aronia berry
Peach tropic snow
Zabala vine
Condo Mango to grow in pot
Capparis spinosa

Shiitake Log
Vanilla orchids

Mitsuba seeds (cryptotaenia japonica)
Cardoon
Ethiopian Kale
Culinary dandelions
Fish pepper seeds
Burr Gherkins
Martynia 'Devil's Claw'
Deinanthe
Wheat grass seeds

Blackberry Lily
Oak leaf hydrangea
Leaf shredder!

SEEDS FOR TRADE

The list is always changing...if you'd like seeds for any of the plants you see here just ask, chances are I either have some now or will gather some soon.

Just post a comment and that will trigger an email to me. Blogger does not automatically trigger an email to you with my response so you'd have to come back and check it...a little work, I know, but so worth it, no? ☺

COOL BOOKS


The Happiness Hypothesis, Jonathan Haidt

The Myth of Mental Illness, Thomas S. Szasz

Zen & The Art of Motorcycle maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig

Wine & War, Don & Petie Kladstrup

The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran

From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas Friedman

Questioning the Millennium, Stephen Jay Gould

The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould

Siddharta, Hermann Hesse

The Battle for God, Karen Armstrong

The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson

Neither Here Nor There, Bill Bryson

The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson

How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker

The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker

Toxic Psychiatry, Breggin

Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore

Modern Man in Search of a Soul, C.G. Jung

The Journey to the East, Hermann Hesse

How Proust Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton

Status Anxiety, Alain de Botton

On Love, Alain de Botton

Kiss & Tell, Alain de Botton

The Romantic Movement, Alain de Botton

The Consolations of Philosophy, Alain de Botton

Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Jonah Lehrer

On Being Certain-Believing You Are Right Even When You Are Not, Robert A. Burton

Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman

Liars, Lovers & Heroes, Steven Quartz

The Problem of the Soul, Owen Flanagan

The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon

Doubt-A History, Jennifer Hecht

The Mind & The Brain, Jeffrey Schwartz

The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks

The Question of God, Armand Nicholi

Looking for Spinoza-Joy, Sorrow, & the Feeling Brain, Antonio Damasio

The Spirituality of Imperfection, Ernest Kurtz

Descartes' Error-Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Antonio Damasio

A History of Knowledge, Charles Van Doren

The Gun Seller, Hugh Lauri

Anything by Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Neruda, Machado, & Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


Garden & Food Politics Books

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver

The End of Food, Paul Roberts

Hot, Flat and Crowded, Thomas L. Friedman

The United States of Arugula, David Kamp

The Ethics of What We Eat, Peter Singer & Jim Mason

Second Nature, Michael Pollan

In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan

The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan

Seed to Sed, Suzanne Ashworth

Teaming with Microbes--A Gardener's Ghide to the Soil Food Web, Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis

Plant Propagation, The American Horticultural Society

Garden Insects, Whitney Cranshaw

Florida Butterfly Caterpillars & Their Host Plants, Marc Minno

Native Florida Plants, Robert G. Haehle & Joan Brookwell

Seed Sowing & Saving, Carole B. Turner

Plant Propagatin A to Z, Geoff Bryant

Florida's Best Fruiting Plants, Charles Boning

Herbs & Spices for Florida Gardens, Monica M. Brandies

The Ultimate Book of Herbs, Jessica Houdret

Roots Demystified, Robert Kourik

Your Edible Landscape-Naturally, Robert Kourik

The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control

PICASSO

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My hubby's smile ♥ The way light can make the ordinary extraordinary ♫ Miles Davis. Beans ♪. Classical music ♫. Chess. People who say weird stuff like please & thank you☼. Keb'Mo♫. Sea food and home-made dulce de leche, but not together. Austin Powers. Mosaic art. Jaime Oliver & Alton Brown. Swimming. A car that is paid for. Modigliani. Home-grown food. Sinatra♫. Wine, bread & cheese. Emil Nolde watercolors. Chickens. Our cats, Moco, Lulu & Frida Kahlo. Not setting the alarm clock for the next morning. Nina Simone ♫. Calamata olives. Rain. Stained glass. Running. J.Prevert. Good toilet paper. Barbara Kingsolver. Opera (Pavaroti!)♫. Jalapeños. Bicycles. Bach♫. Green beans but not overcooked. Martial arts. People with good manners. Good leaf tea (as in the real thing). John Coltrane♫. Baking. Swiming laps at night in an empty pool ☼. Dogs. Dark chocolate. Bill Bryson & Alain de Botton's writing. Home-grown. Home-made. Home-bound. My husband's everything. IKEA. Jamie Oliver. Hand-written & hand-made cards. Christiane Amanpour (can you say cojones?!?!). Steven Pinker & Stephen Jay Gould...although I humbly disagree with some of their view points. Coffee! Bear Grylls. The sounds of fallen leaves being shuffled by the wind. Running under a full moon.

Dislikes
Tagging & Poking. Awards. People who are not punctual. Getting my hair and my gigantic head into my swim cap. People who ruin an apology with an excuse..."Sorry, I did not mean the things I said"? Shouldn't we be saying "Sorry because I meant the things I said"? ...Okra. Oprah. Blogs with music. Socks. Websites with music. Lip plumping procedures. Ungrateful people. Losing at anything, chess, golf, racquet ball, watermelon seed spitting. Overcooked veggies. Cold butter. Living beyond my means. Unkept promises. The color mauve. Brussel sprouts. Non-viable seed. Additives. IRONING. Credit cards. Bad toilet paper. Celine Dion. Make up. Lightning that hits too close to home. DROOL. Gardening gloves. Store bought greeting cards. Putting pillows back inside their pillow covers after washing. Vermin. Fake plants. Tickles. Blotanical. Tornado warnings. Tornadoes without warnings. Genetically altered anything. All things Disney. Stupid questions...As in the ones asked through the voice of laziness--without giving any thought or consideration to its possible answer prior to asking? Cleaning the fridge. Lipstick.