A chill.......

The banana is wrapped in the c9 Christmas light to help it get through the Winter. I hope to have bananas next Summer! I also found some nice 3 gal Sabal Minors at Home Depot so I purchased about 7 of them!

State Fair

This is a great reminder that its time to prepair your garden for the Fall. Its also time to clean up and spray the house plants that are outside to prepair them for comming inside. Purchasing new trays to prevent floor and shelf damage, too!

A chill is in the air!!

Its time for mums, bulbs, and anything else you can get! Winterize the ponds and rain barrels and clean out those gutters!

Low water lawns.

Even though I have replaced most of my lawn with beds of perennials that are drought resistant I still would like to maintain a small area of lawn about 30 feet by 20 feet near the street. I have been researching low water lawn grasses and here is a great website and provider of alternative grasses that are more drought tolerant than the common Mediterranean grass so common today!

http://www.highcountrygardens.com/catalog/product/27053/

Best Regards

Arthur
www.arthurinthegarden.com

Study shows twice a week lawn watering is enough!

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3097728/

Lawn-watering limits under consideration in Raleigh wouldn't harm most lawns, according to a study by four North Carolina State University professors.

Time Flies.

The past few months have flown by. The drought has returned and I am glad I did not plant many annuals like I was planning to do when we had all the rain in the Spring. The water conservation rules are still being enforced and the temps have been in the 90s with barely any rain! The water has even evaporated from my old garbage can that I use as a second rain barrell!

Lots of Rain!

I have never been so happy to see rain. It seems that our weather is back to normal? Everything is growing like crazy ---and the rain barrels are full!