Good Morning,
NOPE...not done! Half way there. Today the back yard. Tomorrow trying to figure what to put in those empty pots and what to do with that surplus of extra soil in them. Also raking the rock back into place. The day after tomorrow the weeds! Arrrrrrrrrgh!
O.K. all................
Please weigh in on my logic and reasoning in regards to my planning:
Let's see....got Octopus Agaves moved. The one was moved to the back yard. The other was kept in the front yard but moved to the full sun area up front. The mature size of the plants, and our warm, gentle sun right now (Feb-May) should be enough transitioning time to adjust to the incrementally increasing sun and temps. Of course shade tenting as necessary.
Got my two plants, A. de-meteesia and A. potatrum in the Octopus Agave's former place. I believe taking these out of there pots and planting them in the ground was a wise move. I was surprised at just unhappy both of these plants were in their pots. Despite the tremendous rains for days on end that we had recently, both of these plant's in their huge pots were bone dry except a few inches from the bottom where the roots did not touch at all. The roots were also getting rather crammed and coiling against the side of the pots.
Aside from that little trouble making A. geminiflora that started all of this ruckus another reality dawned on me. I probably would have had to make a major move like this at some point due to a separate issue I failed to consider originally.
Those Octopus Agaves will get bigger. They will also grow that huge stalk. I had those against the front of my house! I also have 4 Agaves (Century Plants)
They are a variegated A. americana, A. weberi and two A. medio alba picta. In one year these plants have doubled in size. Another year they will be bigger yet. Each year thereafter they will start to become obscenely huge, space gluttons and pupping machines.
Now or later some major move would have happened. Since my stupidity does have some bounds. I will never-ever move those agaves.
They're just fine where they're at. Their present location makes them easy to navigate around in the yard. They are not in the way of others homes. In general these agaves will be more accessible for removal when they have outlived their usefulness.
I made the sane choice. I moved the surrounding smaller plants a few feet away and out of the agaves' way. At the present moment these few surrounding plants are small. Another year or two these plants will be problematic. They'll be bigger and not so portable.
These small plants are in their original and well established sun/shade zones they've resided in presently since the day I planted them. They're still residing in their comfort 'zone' and only a few feet away from their original spots close to the agaves.
So that concludes this portion of the front lawn show.
Today....the back yard!
My husband has become unreasonable and draconian. He imposed back yard sanctions against me.
How dare he!!!
His demands were I share well over half of the yard with the dog. Not just half but well over half! He has also established emanate domain over the largest, most spacious part of our patio. Commandeering it for BBQ grills, his prep table, storage cabinet and other silly things he amuses himself with that are not plants.
He expects me to strictly adhere to this executive order. Well, that's what he thinks is going to happen anyway.
Yeah. Right.
AG
