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[ScarlettOSara]

I Love to see what you are working on your landscaping:) I like to  see and think about different parts of the country and what grows there.
I enjoyed seeing your trees Amanda:)

[Enchantra]

Dang!!! I keep telling them I'm not interested when they show up at my door; great idea Amanda!!!!!

Well the neighbors said that their Missionaries have a certain amount of community service/outreach they have to do.  This includes helping folks who need everything from lawns mowed, hay stacked, animals fed to landscaping and serving soup at kitchens.  So my neighbors offered the services of the Missionaries at their Church.  Since my Husband is Non-practicing Mormon, it really didn't bother me.  I just fed them a nice lunch.  Very respectable and STRONG young men!  I find it's much easier to deal with folks when you're nice to them, and then of course they will lay rock for you!    

Now I just need to go out and get a nice Saguaro or Boojum Tree to put in the front yard about six feet back from the mailbox.  I want something tall there, and both will get tall.  Of course pending I cannot get either of those I'll plant another tree instead like a Texas Ebony!  I'll grab the neighbor's strong and very good looking young son to dig the hole for me.  He works for cookies.   

[Enchantra]

I Love to see what you are working on your landscaping:) I like to  see and think about different parts of the country and what grows there.
I enjoyed seeing your trees Amanda:)

Thanks Sara!  It's no where's close to done yet!  I still have a lot of rock to lay, cactus to plant as well!
Mind you I haven't even begun the gardens in the back of the house yet since that all hinges on the patio getting installed soon.

Which reminds me I have some phonecalls to make tomorrow, the latest contractor hasn't even bothered to get us a quote.  The first contractor we picked to install the patio and the wall just stopped returning phonecalls and emails after we hand picked him from numerous quotes.  Apparently he must not need the business?  This new guy was quoting both us and our next door neighbor, which in theory should save the guy on mobilization costs for his work crew if they can do both residences at once installing walls and patios.  The quote from this guy is now almost a week and a half overdue from the date he said he'd have it to me.  We're having some weird luck with contractors around here.  I gave the guy everything he needed to quote us - the old quote from the other guy with all the measurements on it, and a copy of the site plan showing all the setbacks.  All he has to do is give me his pricing to do the same scope of work.  It's not rocket science.

[iceopals]

That looks great!!!

[Minkos61]

Looking really good Amanda.

[Enchantra]

Here's the new items that got planted into the Landscape on Sunday.

There is actually a small saguaro in there.
My Parents gave us money for our anniversary for something for our landscaping, and this worked perfectly.

We went to a local nursery just a couple miles from us that is family owned and operated. 

[Bentiron]

Interesting selection of plants, some get very large you understand, don't plant them all that close together. There are some that will be more upright and some that spread out, the prickly pear are spreaders, the desert spoon will soon become a large spherical plant that will annually shoot up a seed head and the Ceres Monstrous can take one of two forms, an upright version or a kinda sprawling long armed cactus. The other plant looks kinda like an agave but I just can't quite remember which one. Have fun with planting them.
 

[Enchantra]

Jerry,
Here's some photos of the plantings along with my new amaryllis gardens.   I actually planted all the cactus back on Sunday afternoon after I snapped the photo of the collection of them.
I tried to keep in mind mature size of the cactus when I planted them.

[Bentiron]

Seeing your little Golden Barrel there reminds me when we moved in at our current house, I bought 6 tiny GBs that were barely an 1-1/2" in dia. for fifty cents each, they are now these huge things that are now touching each other. Every year after they got to be around 6" in dia. I saying to myself, "you know you need to move those", well now they are way too big for me to move and a well qualified cactus nursery wants $50 each to move or they will take them out for free. Yeah, I'm sure as now rather than $0.50 they are worth about $500 planted by these guys and I get the pleasure of giving the cactus to them, such a deal. I used to love my agave collection, around 50 different types, but then  came the Agave Weevil, close kin to the Bole Weevil, the feed on the base and pups of the agave and slowly kill it, I only have a few left so in the last ten years or so I have decided to only grow what already grows here as a native, I have a lot less death and a lot less work to do.

[Enchantra]

I've seen how big barrel cactus get so this guy got planted alone with a few feet between him and anything else, he can take some time and grow as big as he wants! 

[Enchantra]

New Babies!
I got in a shipment of trees and perennials I had ordered a while back.  The tall guy is a Willow Leafed Peppermint Eucalyptus.
The little guys are all perennials such as Salvia, Rosemary, Penstemon, and California Fuschia, which will all grow well here.
I planted them all up into bigger pots tonight so they are no longer confined to their tiny black pots they came in.

[Enchantra]

Had some more babies arrive today bare root from California.  Planted them up and shot some pictures.  Once all the grading and gardens are ready to receive plants these guys will be going in the ground or decorative landscape pots in a permanent location.


Mammilaria Gracilis fragilis.
Echinocereus Rubinospinus.

Third picture shows a large boojum tree, a smaller boojum tree in a tiny square pot, an Adenium obesum and Adenium swazicum. (These last two will require winter protection since they will not take freezing temperatures.  For now they will be in easy to cover or move pots.)

Fourth picture is a closeup of the large boojum tree.  Note the spines.  This is going in it's own special garden at least six feet off the driveway on the west side of the house.

Last picture is a Cholla that I got last week at the Botanical Gardens Plant sale.  It was bare root.  I made sure it went into a pot today so it will survive till I get a chance to get it planted into an area along the inside of our wall.    Right now I'm waiting for our property to get graded before I can plant a lot of things out in the gardens or along the fence.

[Minkos61]

Very cool  plants Amanda

[MrsWTownsend]

I feel sorry for the poor sap that decides to try and scale your fence.  You won't need the house alarm, you will hear the blood curdling screams.

[Enchantra]

Honestly I won't feel sorry for anyone trying to scale my fence to get into my yard who is aiming on breaking into my house.   If a person is stupid enough to be scaling fences in hopes of breaking into a home, they can face the consequences of their actions.  Once I know this cactus is happy, I'm taking cuttings from it and rooting them.  Think I'll root enough to put one between each fence pylon.  Inbetween I'll fill with prickly pear.