Friday, May 15, 2009
Midwestern Sky 05-15-09
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
First Surfside Quilters Guild Meeting 05-12-09
Founder and President Nancy Ota
("Structured Chaos #14" - Beth Carney 2006 in background)
Mary Freedman and Sharon Milledge doing Monthly Mini drawing. ("Summer Lily" Ruth McDowell 2004 in background)
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
New Zealand Flax 05-11-09
I had never seen New Zealand Flax until my first husband and I bought a house in Huntington Beach - about 1964. When we planted it we had no idea it would grow to great heights or so big around. Naturally, as new homeowners with no landscaping experience, we planted the small one- gallon plants too close together and before another year came around we were digging out every other plant and giving them to neighbors. In another year we remove every other plant again, but these were too large to transplant. It was a lesson a lot of new gardeners must learn - attested to by the trees and bushes that are planted so close to structures that they almost push them over! I have wondered if the 'hedge' of New Zealand Flax still stands, but I haven't been to Huntington Beach in years.
This is one of three specimens that grow in a clump in the shopping center where Sammy's (the one with the wildlife) is found.