Gardening Fool: Gray Day

Skies are ominous...I love days like this...especially when I have a truckload of indoor work to get done.

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!

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

*EGOCENTRIC AREA*

Likes
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.

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Monday, April 20, 2009

Gray Day

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