Aloe*N Garden

Nunc : Latin for "present", or "these days". You may wonder where is the garden at present? Well it's not finished. Nowhere near from finished actually. There is so much more to do, but yet my body is tired and I can never decide what I should do next. Every time I set out to do something, I see something different that needs my attention.  My goal is to have a garden that is self sustaining. I want to get everything in the dirt then stop helping it one day and see what happens, like a strange science experiment. I love looking at the Mayan temples or Ankgor Wat to see what happens when nature takes over.  After a while, I can go back and thin something out or decide that a certain plant isn't working and give it away. One day when I'm gone, I doubt that anyone will take care of it, but still a part of me wants someone to go back there and say "wow, what's the story behind this?" I want someone to see a 45 foot inflorenscence on the sidewal...

                                     

We needed to get away and the only way we could do it safely was by driving down to Santa Barbara. We stayed at the Belmond  Encanto  and visited the Santa Barbara Botanical garden. Did you know that all of Santa Barbara is like a large garden. The Aloes and Agaves are crazy. What I loved as well were the rock formations and the beautiful sandstone rocks in all the front yards. The poppy field at the Botanical garden was really stunning.  Our little bungalow. Oh hi. Just walking down the street on someone's front yard. The California Poppy Meadow  A moment or repose  Wait lets go back to the meadow. Note to self, buy poppy seeds for the hill back home. Lets give this a standing ovation. Bravo!!! What do they feed these things? The heated salt water pool overlooking the Pacific Ocean.