Terra Bella Vista Garden—Current Progress

The Garden—September 2008
September 10, 2008
	Here is a picture of my Bergamot Orange in its new home. It seems to be doing fine—even with our two-week heat wave. Of course, citrus plants all are warmer climate plants, but I was worried about moving it suddenly from its old, cooler home to one which so much hotter. I will keep checking on it since it is very slow to show problems, but so far so good.
	This is a better shot of the salvia by the barn. It is growing by leaps and bounds—and is much bigger than the last picture I took of it a couple of weeks ago.
	Here is a another shot of our native fuchsia. It is hard to see in the pictures but it has a bright, lipstick red flower.
	The silt pond is still full of water. Water must be seeping into it because it has been so blasting hot recently that this amount of water would have evaporated by now if not renewed.
	Here is one of the pallets of rock to be used in rip-rapping the silt pond.
September 3, 2008
	Here is a photo of the Mexican sage at by the rocks at the top of the road down to the rose garden. It seems to be loving the heat as long as it gets enough water. It has been so hot that I haven’t spent as much time in the rose garden as usual.
	I did walk down this morning to survey things. Our Veilchenblau, which got transplanted and shocked a bit, has certainly pulled out of it and is thriving.
	I walked over to look at what was done to the silt pond at the bottom of the gully and found it full of water. Since it is very hot and everything is quite dry, my supposition is that they must have tapped into a little spring when they cleaned it out. The grayish bushes above the silt pond are native fuchsia. I hope they won’t all get washed away when it starts to rain. I am a little bit nervous about the loose dirt around the silt pond, so I am buying some rock to rip-rap it with. My assistant will line it with rock to be much more stable when the rains start.
	Here is a shot of the gazebo over Iceberg, the white rose in front. I keep trying to find time to bring the terra cotta birdbath down and place it in the middle of the gazebo, but haven't gotten to it yet because of the heat and all the other stuff going on with the house. I would like to get electric out to the middle to run it and also to have an outlet for machinery or lights. This may be a weekend project with the lead guy for my electrician, who does little side jobs.
	One of the little miniature roses we planted is blooming. How valiant! It is only about 8" tall, but still willing to put out a flower.
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