Wednesday, January 30, 2013

End

I don't like the idea of making this post as I feel it is the end of O'Shaughnessy Green as I know it. Emily was so kind to survey the situation with me. Her idea of low growing plants only seems correct. It takes a fresh perspective. For now, I a planning on a rescue and salvage mission.

Interesting note that in January 2012, this happened as well.

Please treat yourself by scrolling down to the entries showing the  Agave attenuatas, the Agave filiferas. I can't even speak about the Furcraea bedinghausii that were just kicking in......

They were so beautiful. I really miss them.


I think it may be time to walk away and focus on Bosworth...


Check it out here: http://bosworthgardens.blogspot.com/

Saturday, January 26, 2013

B A M !

At 4:24pm today I responded to Chris and Dan, that I would very much like to acquire their Agave americana var. medio-picta alba. At 4:26pm, I received confirmation of where to pick up the plant. They helped me load up this beast and off on my way I went meeting Channing to help me install it. At 5:16pm, I was home and sitting down to make this entry. So, I repeat, Bam, and  I add a Pow!  I adore this agave! 

A big giant 
T H A N K   Y O U
goes to Chris & Dan, and Channing.


Also installed were some Aloes, cotyledons, some bulbine and lots and lots of Agave parryi to surround the big medio-picta and keep it company. The picture of the medio-picta above shows it before I was able to plant the other plants around it to keep it company. Channing also thought that if I did this, it might 'protect' it. Either way, it looks really good and again I am so delighted to have this specimen for the community to see.



So here is the view of the installed surrounding plants. The tequilana on the left and the parryi on the right.

The A. tequilana is the very one used to make tequila- obviously I suppose. It is in the picture of the truck bed right behind the familiar Agave americana in the terra cotta colored pot.

In the foreground being cut off, are the bulbine. I hope these do not get too weedy as they tend to die out from the center and create a ring of green around a dried center of stems.

In the back left are some clumps of Aloe nobilis from my front yard hedge.