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Canna Florence Vaughan
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Colocasia
Illustrus
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Musa
Sikkimensis |
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Passiflora |
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Perry D Slocum Lotus
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Saw
Palmetto |
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Ensete
Ventricosum Maureli
aka Red Banana |
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Melianthus
Major aka Honeybush |
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Fish
Patio Project:
As you'll see
below the fish pond
was behind a majorally overgrown arbor of honeysuckle/roses and
ivy and
could not be seen from the house. As the arbor had collapsed some
time ago, we decided
we'd prefer to see the fish pond rather than hide
it so we've hauled it down. The remaining portion
was 'resurrected' with a new entrance for the stairs to the fish
pond. |
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The
portion to the left of the bird feeder
(now relocated) is the portion we
cleared out.
Not an easy task as it was chock full of very old
roses -- read -- LOTS of thorns.
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This is
the opposite side from the photo above. To the left you can see
the stairway down to
the pond.
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Area
largely cleared - just need to get the rest of
the arbor thing up and resupported.
This area gets the early AM sun and will be a
great
spot for morning coffee in the summer
once the deck/patio is in. Later comment - the wood in the rest of the
arbor was so rotten that we replaced
it entirely. This meant tearing off all the growth so we are
starting from scratch
with that. |
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Taken
from the 2nd story of the house looking
down
on the same area from above. |
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Arbor
area rebuilt. |
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Sundial
Project:
The Sundial is just in front of the
fish pond area and behind a hedge. The brick needs major cleaning
of moss and the sundial itself could use a little TLC. |
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This
hedge surrounds the sundial. It leans greatly towards
the south
thus I assume
there must be strong southeast
winter
winds which
blow thru here.
Later - this is Honeysuckle. It comes back extraordinarily each
year and needs major pruning.
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Corner
of hedge at driveway
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Front
( lawn ) side of hedge.
The pond + sundial area are directly
behind this.
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Pine
Patio Project:
I call this the "Pine
Patio" as there is a large Austrian Pine here.
This area is at the front of
the house beside the garage and also overlooks the fish pond. |
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We've yanked out most of the
rose bushes here. Some had HUGE roots and were quite a job to
remove. Lots of cleanup/clearout yet to do. The patio
is bricks but we think we'll remove that & use it elsewhere. The chairs and table have been
painted black to blend more appropriately with the ambience of the house
however they are essentially homeless as we keep moving them about
trying to find somewhere they 'work'.
The Boulevard Cypress have been yanked. |
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Same
area but moving to the right from the last shot. There's also a tree peony
here of a dark maroon color. Come fall I hope to transplant the
light pink one in the back garden to go along with the one presently here. |
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This is
( I've recently learned ) is a Golden Deodora located at the south end of the
Fish Pond. Interesting tree quite unlike the species Deodora.
It loses all it's needles in late fall so the tree is simply
branches. Just behind at the lower left you can make out
the white chairs
(now black) on the
patio.
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