Sunday, September 30, 2012

Moby

Today, I was invited to collect several Agaves from Diane in Tiburon. The best one in my opinion, is this guy. An Agave americana variegata. A few years back I dug out my first mature agave. It was in Sacramento and of the same variety as this one. However, I couldn't lift it onto the truck bed by myself. I delivered it to Annie of Pennsylvania Street Gardens and she named it Moby Dick. At that time it was one of the larger plants she had. Today, this one was just the right weight for me to hoist it onto the truck bed. Diane was so generous to donate these agaves, and she was extra nice and gave me a bag of delicious home grown figs!

I wonder how long ago the picture she sent me was taken. The agave were larger, but not too much. All the blue americanas went to Connie and Eileen for their Circular Drive project.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Annex

So the annex is born. More room- so I thought. It feels almost done after this first day of planting. All the mulch was there. I brought in everything else. What was a weekend full of loss, has become a new beginning -for me anyway. I plant in memory. ∞ DF and BW ∞

The main attraction, the Agave weberi in the lower left corner of this picture to the left, was acquired yesterday with Channing's help of course. It came form Suzi and Ryan, a lovely couple in Martinez. This agave makes me so happy! The shape is so graceful and the color so sky blue and turquoise.... pleasing.

Here is an odd thing- This area is used for a banana peel depository - really. There are countless blackened banana peels strewn about the entire area. Will they keep falling from the sky? Does a little Monkey live in the near by Eucalyptus tree? Are they from one woman or man that times their morning ritual just so that they are passing this median by just as they finish their daily banana? We shall see.
Here is what got planted
Agaves:
1 weberi
1 salmiana 'Green Giant'
1 americana veriegata
2 tequila
1 angustifolia
3 parryi
and 5 Aloe maculata