Re: Christmas is coming

 Well my garden is comming along.It rained so hard yesterday i thought the
 rivers here would flood. I dug up all the annual grasses i let go and now i
 have barren dirt. My  next paycheck ( not all of it, mind you) will go into
 buying some Manzanitas and a few Rhaphiolepsis ( i know theyre overused but
 they dont take much water and have a character that fits into a japanese
 garden ( american style) I bought some Fountain grass today and i planted it
 along the shallow ditch i have set up for rocks ( its the dry stream bed) In
 a few years or so, it will screen out the neighbors chain-link fence and
 blend in the distant pines for borrowed scenery ( a technique in japanese
 gardens to make the garden seem bigger.The best thing is it will give
 movement to the garden which if i had the time or money to build, a stram or
 pond would. The side yard is filled with Oxalis which i do not mind being
 there except it escaped into the front yard . No problem because it provides
 color in a rather drab spot in the yard. I want to get some miscanthus to
 give more height and to cover the rest of the neighbors chain-link fence but
 my nursery doesnt have any.  I would buy a Schinus molle but i read about it
 and im worried it would get into the water pipe under the front yard and its
 a bit messy and has greedy roots. I was in a redwood forest a week ago and
 found a douglas iris which i transplanted to my yard ( it had been washed out
 of its forest abode onto the road by a small mudslide). I dug up the native
 needle grass and planted it near the Pennesetum, a little in front of them,
 it was being choked by the oxalis.  Hopefully the yard will look natural and
 will convey the sense there has always been a stream there.


 BJ
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