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I haven't done a selfie video of me in the garden in a year, or more, two years,
but it's been raining every day. And it's been raining since the last video I did.
So, I thought if you were missing my garden, I would take you on a little tour
in the rain. This is what you call an over-the-shoulder shot in the movies.
After my Phoenix trip, I bought two more trees and you can see them right there.
It's a kaffir lime and a Satsuma Mandarin and I should have had those
planted a month ago. The kaffir is known for the leaves and with all this rain
and all the minerals in the water, they really look great but it would be nice
to plant them. I just don't know where that is going to be yet. And you can see
that I still have my Christmas lights in my citrus trees, which is cheerful, and it
makes me happy. I'm giving my holiday wreath a little
rain water to help it last a little longer. I don't think that roll up job is
gonna last very long. Okay, I've got cyclamen blooming, and the dark red
camellias are almost ready to pop open. I've got two of those, just stunning.
And, of course the cozy corner. It's nice and soaked. I've got a little bit of
lettuce growing here. It isn't getting much Sun. This particular basil plant got
pruned way back and it has popped out and it's blooming. This is a volunteer
potato. The only other thing growing in the Back 40 raised bed is some o'itoi onions.
Over there on the side here. I started the Back to Eden wood chip method about
two years ago now. This particular raised bed was full to the top and you can see
the level now. It has broken down at least three inches underneath that top
level. I've got a little cilantro coming up right here although it looks more
like a carrot, doesn't it? It sure does. How could that be a carrot? Okay, let's
see. (tastes) Oh, my goodness. That is a carrot I didn't even plant that. I don't know
how that happened. Okay, so there's the papaya. It really hasn't grown much since
we planted it. This evergreen is all beaten down from the rain. The pitcher
sage, that I really cut back, has got new sprouts on the ends, as you can see. Tthis
is a brand new piece right there, so it's grown like four inches, maybe, since we
pruned that, what, 3-4 weeks ago. And this is my big fuchsia-colored camellia
that's just getting ready to go. Of course, my loaded orange tree. I'm so
proud of this, this tree. This is a new flower, a gift a friend of mine gave me.
Remember when we planted the snapdragons, and I snapped all the ends off to
strengthen the roots? I think that was a really smart thing to do because
it's completely budding out on every branch. The Mexican marigold is in full
bloom, pretty stunning, I would say.
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This huge plant grew out of this tiny little pot. You see that pot? That's 3
inches wide and about 8 inches long and it grew into the roots of that olive
tree pot, and look at that. Is that stunning? I mean, succulents
just are so cheerful. My celery is not looking so good. I need to take off all
those outside leaves and juice them. This is the melon Sage. I don't really even
know if it's edible, but it has the prettiest red little flowers and the
hummingbirds actually like those little tubular flowers. There's a tomato down
there. You see that a ripe tomato? I've got a fig right there, got one there and
I got one up there. I've just got a couple little sprigs of milkweed left. I really
need to cut that back. Oh, this is a surprise! I hadn't even noticed. Look, my
first rose. Now, if that could stay healthy, I would be so happy. This rose
plant gets covered in bugs and worms and rust and mildew. And, oh, look, there's a
sign it's been raining a lot, fungi. Now that we've cut all this back, it's easier
to see my dragon fruit. Look at that green snake going up that tree. I wish
the rain could come, you know, once in a while, not all at once.
Ok, the eggplant has flowers all over it, but I have a feeling they'll all drop
off. I still have passion fruit on that whole
vine over there. These are some sweet potato slips that started growing
volunteer out of the garbage can. And here's my celery that we potted a few
few months ago. Here's the soupy compost. You don't even want to see what's in
there. That's that's the comfrey which I never used. Of course, this rain capture
system has been overflowing for weeks. There's my angel.
So, got a few leaves left on the ornamental plum, and the Jade which came with the
house 25 years ago, this was the mother plant
It's in full bloom, very pretty, delicate little flowers. These radishes are
practically climbing out of the pot here. I really ought to harvest those and eat
them. And, of course, we still have lots of blooms on the camellias in the back, the
pale pinks, still absolutely stunning.
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We had to take out a whole bunch of this
bamboo, because it was touching my neighbor's chimney up there and he was
nervous about it. Then through here, more bamboo, a lot of which got taken out. See it's
up there. It's actually touching my house, but I haven't takend that down
in a while. These are all, this all came from one little plant that my
neighbor gave me. This is Queen of the Night cactus and it's stunning and
when it blooms it will blow your mind. When they tore down the two houses next
to us, the first thing they did was cut down the the three coastal redwoods, yep.
You would think those were protected, but, no. If you planted the coastal redwoods
and they weren't already here when this neighborhood was developed in 1939 they
would be saved, they would be spared, but if you planted them, they could be taken
down, and so, of course, when they bulldoze a lot to put a McMansion on it, first
thing that goes is any big tree that's going to give the contractor a problem.
I'll just show you the Parkway Gardens and that'll be a quick look at a
Late Bloomer garden for December, this, oh God, I wish it was December, no January
the 16th.
Here are my pineapple guavas and one Mexican pink guava except that the guavas
aren't pink for some reason. This is the second parkway garden. Somehow this
tomato is holding on and not getting covered in mildew. I don't know why, but,
it's very exciting. There's the rosemary, dripping wet, in
bloom, so pretty, so pretty. So we're back. I'm under the big red umbrella and which
is where I have my Sweet Annie hanging that we cut last week, and
so I guess just to wrap this up, I want to remind you that I'm having a live
stream on Sunday. I have a special guest. January 20th at 10 a.m. Pacific Standard
Time and I want you all to join in and make it as wonderful as my last one. I
was hoping to do it in the garden, well, it really depends on the connectivity,
more than even the weather, but the weather also might be a problem, so, but,
now my office is a wreck, so I really hope I can do it out here. Thanks so
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