Fast growing choices
PINK geraniums, from cutting to bloom, just a few months. Then they are perennials but stay bush like for years. They are not invasive.
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Build window boxes for outside kitchen if son or hubby is handy.
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Simple JUNK WOOD. Every alley has some. Throw em under every single
window on the house. I also have some
MAGENTA geraniums.
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dead TREES
The row of truncated cypresses or hedge plants do not have to be dug out. Leave the central stems. They will be less glaring, less 'stick out' with soft, green vines Weave vines among the upright wood.
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In SPRING, PLANT
MORNINGLORIES.
Morninglory vine is an annual. Gather seeds in Autumn, replant in spring
MORNINGLORIES are SO STRIKING!
I grow them up all trees, up all fences.
Ask me for seed. Some of mine are blue, dark blue some pink
Some have stars like these.
SEND chayote vines up into trees, onto roof. This squash is FOOD.
Seek chayotes at Mex Market, maybe even in any produce dept
of a store --with a little tail. has to have a tail sticking out.
Of course at the chayote factory, they take those
themselves, to take home, or the farmer keeps them.
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GROW YOUR OWN FRUITS!
Plant berries from the dumpster, even if rotting. you will have tons
of BLACKBERRY PLANTS to donate
Get bags of SUPER SOIL, best brand, add peat moss, (soaking first,) sand, manure and keep all green trash, from green cans ...yours and neighbors, in a pile which you pitchfork around once a week, to make fine, black compost.
Dig a long bed and throw a four inch layer of compost on it, Dig it in, break up clods. Find a wormy area, and throw a worm every inch into ground. Now, Plant your geraniums, berries, morninglories. One can mix them..... rather than separate beds. BERRIES kind of demand to be all in one area on poles and wire. Whatever you plant, every six months put a new four inch layer of compost on it, so keep on taking everybody's GREEN can on trash nite. And you have to start a new pile each week. Get chicken farmer to give you a lot of cans of waste for each pile. Put all kitchen scraps (not meat or fat) in the latest pile.
FENCE COVERS. Every fence should have glorious, flowering vines on it,
honeysuckle is invasible but the bouquets are worth it. As trumpet vines
are 15$ each or more, and morninglories are free and do the job
faster and taller.......consider this glamorous vine instead of trumpet
vine. Honey suckle grows from cuttings. Dedicate many flats to 'rooting'
process.
If you are in L.A., I have a thousand cuttings to give you. Also an alley to take you to with a trumpet vine which I believe WILL replicate.... Hey in my section of the VALLEY, if we wander a few alleys we'll find lots of trumpet vines. Just not the mandevilla you probably want. Take cuttings in your local alleys, or find trumpet vines
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The ART OF TAKING
CUTTINGS IS LEARNED BY DOING IT.
HYDRANGEA BUSHES are LUSH! This CUTTING SYSTEM works bigtime on these lusty flowerers. They require ACIDIC soil, pure compost and sand, no clay.
