Friday, February 24, 2012

Three

Today as I was about halfway done adding some Gazanias, bush ice plant and (not pictured) aptenia and some agaves, Chrissy the lovely and supportive neighbor came out to tell me that just the other day, shortly after I finished my work in the median and left, a three car accident happened at the curve.

This explains the reflector that was laying there.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

More

Today I added lots more plants to the center median. Originally I wanted to make this an all agave bed to demonstrate how many different shapes, colors and textures are in this huge family of plants.

No longer is that the plan and I have to say it looks really good with the Senecio and the calindrinia cuttings I received from Fanny.

Her generosity is superb!

Right now, the plants are really growing and starting to fill in and look like some cool healthy plants, see?

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Wait?

My plan was to wait to clean up the month old damaged plants until DPT came to survey the damage first hand. They still have not. But, Julia asked that I clean it up as some complaints were received. That is good because people out there are noticing the plantings. I agreed to clean and add new plants by today or tomorrow and believe it or not, it got cleaned up yesterday, before I could do it today. A few agaves got scooped up in the removal that I know were salvageable, but that is my fault for not collecting them sooner. It is now replanted and looking really good with even larger plants than the original plants. It's no longer a stick Agave bed, but it is good.

Due to the generosity of Fanny, and the keen watchful eye of Annie, I was able to score these fantastic HUGE plants to reclaim the median! They are Furcraea bedinghausii. Fanny was giving away 3 plants that her crew had already removed and were waiting to be picked up when I arrived. Wow, they were larger than I expected, and very healthy.

I barely could get them on the truck even with her help. Channing was called in to assist in unloading them and he was a great help to me as usual. Now the median is beautiful again and as these beauties relax, they will really look stunning! Thanks Fanny for providing such great plants. Oh, the front plant in the picture below is an Agave vilmoriniana (octopus agave) that came from Marsha a while back. (so did the others that were plowed down) I was saving this one because it was the largest, and lucky for it I did, as it survived. I hope these will be all right for a long time to come. Steer clear people!!        S  L  O  W   D  O  W  N,  please !


Also, I noticed that the plants have been growing really fast in the smaller side medians! Compare with the similar view below from August 2011, when it all first began.

All in all, I am very excited to have the median looking good again.

One experience that helps this restored excitement was a passer by that shared his frustration with the past moths damage and asked if there were plans to add any means of preventative nature, like more reflectors. I explained that I am lobbying for this and a sign, he told me he would go home and send the city an email. Cool. I am thinking something like.....