So, I have a sprinkler that doesn’t work on one end of my yard and a giant oak that sucks up all the water on the other. The rest of my sprinkler system is not solving this issue, so: I decided to run drip line.
Omg. I forgot how much I hate installing drip line! It’s up there with the likes of chicken wire and hardware cloth. It was nice and cloudy, so, I wasn’t too hot. But, I only got the lines run and ten emiters put in. I am so tired and sore from the two crazy days, (that I just finished) that an hour and a half out there working on the drip line was more than enough. And I sat my chair in a fire ant mound and was covered with them before I realized it. Plus, I now need to make dinner. Wahhh.
OK. Forced forward motion: engaged.
Meet you out in the garden for some frustrating, “simple” projects.
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Ick! I am fortunate that someone else does all the irrigation at work.
No fun, for sure!
Incidentally, Rhody and I are near Phoenix in Arizona right now, and compact cultivars of esperanza are blooming in the neighborhood. They do not seem to be the simple species though, since all of them are compact and rounded, and some of them bloom with odd orange color.
We have orange here too. But the blooms are smaller and not as numerous. Enjoy your trip!
Are those that bloom orange a cultivar or variety that is not true to type?
Rhody and I will be going out for a walk in the neighborhood in a while, and I want to find seed for Texas laurel. I doubt that they are ready though.
I have no idea. I’ve just seen them planted around our community pool. Grape soda flowers! I love our Texas laurels. Although I don’t have any of my own, I always stop on walks in early spring make sure to enjoy them!
If planted around the pool, they are likely cultivars. Not many simple species . . . of anything, are available from nurseries. Psoralea pinnata is what I know as grape soda flower or grape pop pea. Although seemingly common in this part of Arizona, Texas mountain laurel is rare at home. In fact, I have never seen it there. I have seen only a few in the Los Angeles region.
sending peace
Thank you! I need it!
Ugh, I hate drip irrigation. It’s great that it works but it’s another when either something not working or an emitter is popping off. Thankfully I got mine to work this year.
It seems we all dislike drip line! That would be a great new invention: easy installation drip irrigation! I’d buy it!
I currently have to use a lighter to install the 1/4-inch tubing but it’s hard on a windy day. If anyone invents something to make drip installation easy, on all for it.