Okay, here is the clip. I believe it's about five minutes. It's the garden of
the month or some such. I was fully UNprepared to be interviewed. I fell out
of bed, put on a hat and they were here at eight am!

You won't see a clear view, but it gets the idea of our garden across.

Here's the URL:

http://www.klru.org/ctg/gardenomonth/index.asp

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 02:13:32 GMT, animaux
wrote:

Okay, here is the clip. I believe it's about five minutes. It's the garden of
the month or some such. I was fully UNprepared to be interviewed. I fell out
of bed, put on a hat and they were here at eight am!

You won't see a clear view, but it gets the idea of our garden across.

Here's the URL:

http://www.klru.org/ctg/gardenomonth/index.asp

That was very impressive. And your philosophies on wild life are
precious to me. I need to meet other people like this. The joy i get
when i smell the most delicious rose of the day, and watch 2 garden
snakes entwined near the pond while a baby toad dives under a lily
pad....no one understands it! I see that you do and that is really
great. These are the things i thank my higher power for.

Thank you for that,
juls in texas

On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 22:39:50 -0500, jammer wrote:

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 02:13:32 GMT, animaux
wrote:

Okay, here is the clip. I believe it's about five minutes. It's the garden of
the month or some such. I was fully UNprepared to be interviewed. I fell out
of bed, put on a hat and they were here at eight am!

You won't see a clear view, but it gets the idea of our garden across.

Here's the URL:

http://www.klru.org/ctg/gardenomonth/index.asp

That was so incredibly neat -- to tour a fellow NG member's garden
on-line! Thanks a bunch for posting that. I like your philosophy.
Must be a whole load of work, though; do you have help?

--

Persephone



That was very impressive. And your philosophies on wild life are
precious to me. I need to meet other people like this. The joy i get
when i smell the most delicious rose of the day, and watch 2 garden
snakes entwined near the pond while a baby toad dives under a lily
pad....no one understands it! I see that you do and that is really
great. These are the things i thank my higher power for.

Thank you for that,
juls in texas

On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 22:39:50 -0500, jammer wrote:


That was very impressive. And your philosophies on wild life are
precious to me. I need to meet other people like this. The joy i get
when i smell the most delicious rose of the day, and watch 2 garden
snakes entwined near the pond while a baby toad dives under a lily
pad....no one understands it! I see that you do and that is really
great. These are the things i thank my higher power for.

Thank you for that,
juls in texas

In many parts of Texas, there is a Master Naturalist Certification program. You
will meet many people there who are just like I am, how you are. Also, native
plant society meetings are a great way to meet like minded people.

Where in Texas do you live?

V

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 06:39:48 GMT, wrote:


That was so incredibly neat -- to tour a fellow NG member's garden
on-line! Thanks a bunch for posting that. I like your philosophy.
Must be a whole load of work, though; do you have help?

I had occasional hard lug work help by my husband, Mark. Outside of his
wheelbarrows of huge limestone to make paths and raised beds, and the major
weeding we had to do a few years to get rid of them enough to control their
powerful resistence...I did it myself. He was very instrumental in helping with
the very hard grunt work. He still helps with that if need be.

I designed the pool, the pool builder built it. I designed the garden, which is
actually wild, and is only now after three years starting to have bones. It
takes about five years to be really satisfied with a garden. I'm on the way
there.

I have some renovation to do in the front border which is now 50 feet long by 15
feet wide. It's full of Mexican elderberry, Gaura lindheimerii, yucca (few
varieties) and a whole bunch of native plants.

The foundation planting is coming out completely this fall and I'm throwing the
Nandina domestica in the garbage or compost bin. It's so invasive here and
becoming a huge problem. I don't know what I'll replace it with, but I am only
going to use native plants.

I have about 70% natives now, but want to make it as close to 100% as I can and
still have the garden I love. The wildlife is the most important to us.

V

I've just spent an hour -- first downloading the player and then the
film with a dialup connection -- to see this feature. Well worth it!
What a lovely place. Qs: You say the nandina is invasive and you're
going to take it out. How *do* you keep natives from, well, going
native? It looks to me like it would take about 48 hrs of work per day
to kep up with this. What is the *size* of this area? I'd love to see
an architectural drawing or plan. Not so much exact measurements, but
how everything fits in.

Thanks for the treat. It really is inspiring.

On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 11:04:02 GMT, Frogleg wrote:

I've just spent an hour -- first downloading the player and then the
film with a dialup connection -- to see this feature. Well worth it!
What a lovely place. Qs: You say the nandina is invasive and you're
going to take it out. How *do* you keep natives from, well, going
native? It looks to me like it would take about 48 hrs of work per day
to kep up with this. What is the *size* of this area? I'd love to see
an architectural drawing or plan. Not so much exact measurements, but
how everything fits in.

Thanks for the treat. It really is inspiring.

You are welcome. Nandina is not a native, so in that regard I am removing it.
The birds eat the berries (mostly the cedar waxwings) and spread the shrub to
areas where it takes over and eliminates native forbs and grasses.

Since our garden is a prairie garden, there are going to be things which take
over, no question. However, if these are native plants taking over it only
encourages more wildlife to fit in.

Things which reseed, readily are easily controlled in spring, after the rains.
Simply pull out what you don't want, leave the rest. It is a great deal of
work the first five or so years till you know what goes where and how much
re-seeding any given plant does.

For example: The native argeratum...Gregg's Mist. This plant can be an
aggressive spreader via seeds. However, it is covered in red admiral
butterflies spring to winter with a slight lapse in summer.

I suppose the point is, native plants taking over are not the big problem for
areas outside my garden. Aggressive spreaders via bird droppings in water ways,
or outer fields is a great problem. Any time it takes up space, it's less and
less space for blackland prairie plants to exist.

We have a half acre. That largest of the borders is in the back. It runs about
20 feet deep by about 100 feet wide. The raised bed in back of the pool runs
the length of the pool at 50 feet and we have another bed in shade which runs
about 75 feet long by about 6 feet deep in shade. On one side of the house
there's a hedge row of viburnums and live oak trees and front beds go the full
width of the house, about 40 feet (that's where the Nandina domestica are) and
the border on the west side of the house is 10 feet deep by about 40 feet long,
not counting the trees planted to shade the west side and the A/C unit and pool
equipment.

I'm working on a webpage to be more specific, but it has been a TON of physical
work. Since I am not a designer, I made a lot of awful mistakes...some to my
advantage. I'm not through moving things around come fall, so I've been taking
a lot of notes. I did add at least 100 echinacea to the gardens this year and
the daturas reseed, readily. Gaura lindheimerii reseed and so does the Palo
Verde which I have been digging out, potting up and I'm going to grow them in
gallon containers in the greenhouse over winter to sell to a garden center
around here. They have a hard time keeping gaura in stock, and virtually nobody
grows Palo Verde for the trade. I swap the plants for the best compost in the
land, made at The Natural Gardener www.naturalgardeneraustin.com They are also
brewing fabulous compost tea as directed by Dr. Ingram at
http://soils.usda.gov/sqi/SoilBiology/soil_food_web.htm

They recently changed their website address for anyone who wants to update their
bookmark.

Victoria

animaux wrote:


You are welcome. Nandina is not a native, so in that regard I am removing it.
The birds eat the berries (mostly the cedar waxwings) and spread the shrub to
areas where it takes over and eliminates native forbs and grasses.

Since our garden is a prairie garden, there are going to be things which take
over, no question. However, if these are native plants taking over it only
encourages more wildlife to fit in.

Things which reseed, readily are easily controlled in spring, after the rains.
Simply pull out what you don't want, leave the rest. It is a great deal of
work the first five or so years till you know what goes where and how much
re-seeding any given plant does.

For example: The native argeratum...Gregg's Mist. This plant can be an
aggressive spreader via seeds. However, it is covered in red admiral
butterflies spring to winter with a slight lapse in summer.

I suppose the point is, native plants taking over are not the big problem for
areas outside my garden. Aggressive spreaders via bird droppings in water ways,
or outer fields is a great problem. Any time it takes up space, it's less and
less space for blackland prairie plants to exist.

We have a half acre. That largest of the borders is in the back. It runs about
20 feet deep by about 100 feet wide. The raised bed in back of the pool runs
the length of the pool at 50 feet and we have another bed in shade which runs
about 75 feet long by about 6 feet deep in shade. On one side of the house
there's a hedge row of viburnums and live oak trees and front beds go the full
width of the house, about 40 feet (that's where the Nandina domestica are) and
the border on the west side of the house is 10 feet deep by about 40 feet long,
not counting the trees planted to shade the west side and the A/C unit and pool
equipment.

I'm working on a webpage to be more specific, but it has been a TON of physical
work. Since I am not a designer, I made a lot of awful mistakes...some to my
advantage. I'm not through moving things around come fall, so I've been taking
a lot of notes. I did add at least 100 echinacea to the gardens this year and
the daturas reseed, readily. Gaura lindheimerii reseed and so does the Palo
Verde which I have been digging out, potting up and I'm going to grow them in
gallon containers in the greenhouse over winter to sell to a garden center
around here. They have a hard time keeping gaura in stock, and virtually nobody
grows Palo Verde for the trade. I swap the plants for the best compost in the
land, made at The Natural Gardener www.naturalgardeneraustin.com They are also
brewing fabulous compost tea as directed by Dr. Ingram at
http://soils.usda.gov/sqi/SoilBiology/soil_food_web.htm

They recently changed their website address for anyone who wants to update their
bookmark.

Victoria

I'm impressed! I want to naturalize most of my backyard--a bit
selectively (meaning, I would plant some native plants and also
remove others from locations where I don't want them). I feel
sorry for all the critters, since all of my neighbors most mow
their lawns down to one inch and liberally apply herbicides and
pesticides. We need to share this planet, I think.... Anyway,
kudos. I do hope you have a website someday so we can learn from
it.
--
Jean B., 12 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts, USA

did you get a copy, I cant download it. Ingrid

animaux wrote:

Okay, here is the clip. I believe it's about five minutes. It's the garden of
the month or some such. I was fully UNprepared to be interviewed. I fell out
of bed, put on a hat and they were here at eight am!

You won't see a clear view, but it gets the idea of our garden across.

Here's the URL:

http://www.klru.org/ctg/gardenomonth/index.asp



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On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:53:29 -0400, "Jean B." wrote:


I'm impressed! I want to naturalize most of my backyard--a bit
selectively (meaning, I would plant some native plants and also
remove others from locations where I don't want them). I feel
sorry for all the critters, since all of my neighbors most mow
their lawns down to one inch and liberally apply herbicides and
pesticides. We need to share this planet, I think.... Anyway,
kudos. I do hope you have a website someday so we can learn from
it.

Two of the best books I've read are by Sara Stein. The titles a

Noah's Garden
Planting Noah's Garden

She is a wonderful writer. Not a glossy garden book, but many essays about how
she changed her own property back to what it wanted to be in the first place.
She is from upstate New York, so may have a lot in common with your area, but a
few zones south. She's probably in USDA Zone 6a.

Victoria

Yes, I did get a copy and I ran two vcrs all weekend and all the copies on VHS
are out somewhere being sent all around to the many people who wanted to see it.
When a duplicate makes its way back, I'll get it out to you.

I wonder why you couldn't view it?


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 01:27:33 GMT, wrote:

did you get a copy, I cant download it. Ingrid

animaux wrote:

Okay, here is the clip. I believe it's about five minutes. It's the garden of
the month or some such. I was fully UNprepared to be interviewed. I fell out
of bed, put on a hat and they were here at eight am!

You won't see a clear view, but it gets the idea of our garden across.

Here's the URL:

http://www.klru.org/ctg/gardenomonth/index.asp



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~
List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List
http://puregold.aquaria.net/
www.drsolo.com
Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~
Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other
compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the
endorsements or recommendations I make.

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 01:27:33 GMT, wrote:

animaux wrote:

Okay, here is the clip. I believe it's about five minutes. It's the garden of
the month or some such. I was fully UNprepared to be interviewed. I fell out
of bed, put on a hat and they were here at eight am!


Here's the URL:

http://www.klru.org/ctg/gardenomonth/index.asp


did you get a copy, I cant download it. Ingrid

Search your cache of 'temporary internet files', if you haven't
cleared it since you viewed the movie. I'm trying to get used to
WinXP, and had to change search parameters to include "hidden" files
when I looked for it. The file is rains.mov.

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:03:02 GMT, Frogleg wrote:

Search your cache of 'temporary internet files', if you haven't
cleared it since you viewed the movie. I'm trying to get used to
WinXP, and had to change search parameters to include "hidden" files
when I looked for it. The file is rains.mov.

My husband is a computer geek who works for Dell Inc. If he can't find it, it's
pretty obscure. We use WinXP Pro on a brand new machine. He's looked
everywhere.

Fortunately, someone in our city is sending us a copy on CD in two formats. One
will work on the computer, one on the DVD player. We'll see.

animaux wrote in
:

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:03:02 GMT, Frogleg wrote:

Search your cache of 'temporary internet files', if you haven't
cleared it since you viewed the movie. I'm trying to get used to
WinXP, and had to change search parameters to include "hidden" files
when I looked for it. The file is rains.mov.

My husband is a computer geek who works for Dell Inc. If he can't
find it, it's pretty obscure. We use WinXP Pro on a brand new
machine. He's looked everywhere.

Fortunately, someone in our city is sending us a copy on CD in two
formats. One will work on the computer, one on the DVD player. We'll
see.

Depending on what browser software you are using, it's not necessarily
being cached under the name 'rains.mov' or in the MS temporary internet
files folder.

Ingrid wrote ...
did you get a copy, I cant download it. Ingrid

Regardless, the easiest way to just download the movie is to go he
http://www.klru.org/ctg/movies/rains.mov

and click 'save' when the box comes up.

I don't have QT installed, so I haven't watched it yet, but kudos on
being selected.

-- Salty

I can view it but I want a copy to keep!!! LOL. Ingrid

animaux wrote:

Yes, I did get a copy and I ran two vcrs all weekend and all the copies on VHS
are out somewhere being sent all around to the many people who wanted to see it.
When a duplicate makes its way back, I'll get it out to you.

I wonder why you couldn't view it?


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List
http://puregold.aquaria.net/
www.drsolo.com
Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other
compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the
endorsements or recommendations I make.