48 years ago when I moved to Oregon, I went to the local nursery in search of Agapanthas. the nurseryman looked at me like I had two heads. He'd never heard of 'em.
So I went to a local garden center. "We can't grow those here in our zone," I was told. That was correct then. My mom brought me up some from California and they froze that winter and never reappeared in the spring.
Today? I routinely grow 'em in pots and in the ground. All the nurseries here in Southern Oregon stock them as "no fuss" landscape plants!
OUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER FELT THEY HAD TO PRINT THIS AD FROM THE HOBBY LOBBY. IT IS A DIATRIBE ABOUT THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. IT IS BULLSHIT. SHAME ON THE MAIL TRIBUNE FOR PRINTING THIS CLAP TRAP AD. THEY'LL DO ANYTHING FOR AD MONEY, IT APPEARS.
YOU CAN SEE HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS PAGE OF THE NEWSPAPER. YEAH, FREEDOM OF SPEECH BUT THIS IS AN AD THAT THE NEWPAPER DIDN'T HAVE TO PRINT! NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO INSINUATE THAT I'M NOT A "TRUE AMERICAN" BECAUSE I DON'T BELIEVE IN THEIR RELIGIOUS SHIT!
SHAME ON OUR NEWSPAPER FOR PRINTING THIS! TOO BAD I JUST RENEWED FOR 6 MONTHS!
NO NICE PRETTY PICTURES CAN HIDE MY DISGUST AT THE PIG IN THE WHITE HOUSE. I'VE HAD IT! I'M READY PROTEST IN THE STREETS. I'M READY TO SEND MONEY TO THE PERSON WHO CAN WIPE THIS CANCER OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH. I'M READY TO THROW A BRICK THROUGH A WINDOW LIKE SOMEONE DID LAST NIGHT AT THE LOCAL REPUBLICAN HQ. I'M READY TO SPIT AT THE IDIOTS WEARING MAGA HATS..I DON'T CARE WHO THEY ARE OR WHERE THEY ARE! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! I'M TOTALLY DISGUSTED AT PEOPLE WHO ARE IGNORING THIS RAPE OF OUR CONSTITUTION. I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANY MORE.
Last year, for my birthday, we built a gate...not just any gate but a "half moon" job... to divide the garden into 2 rooms...one for veggies and the "working" area of the garden and the other area for perennials and seating. We didn't worry about a latch as it wasn't really a gate to keep anything in or out...it was mainly for the design. However, we discovered that it was exactly in the perfect location for the prevailing SE wind so if we had lots of wind it would bang away. It needed a latch after all!
Well, enter the under-gardener/engineer/industrial designer to the "rescue." No average gate latch would do for us! We needed a mechanism that could be operated with just one hand (because I'm always carrying something from one part of the garden to the other) and it had to latch automatically when it closed.
The designer used Heim joints (salvaged from the local A & P mechanic at Beagle Aerodrome). He says these are probably vintage from the 1940's. As old as me...and they still work! Who knew!
No more propping the gate closed with a slivery 2 x 4! It works great! As my former mother-in-law would say, " Don't you just feel like a queen!" Well, maybe I'll admit to feeling more like a "garden princess!"
Do let's go through the garden gate!
