Not quite Spring yet...

Feb 04, 2012 19:12

But we've been having a nice run of weather, which is causing things to start a wee bit earlier than usual ( Read more... )

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rhodielady_47 February 5 2012, 17:21:44 UTC
I'm proud to hear your coconut palm has pulled through again. I've always thought that if I lived as far south as you do, that I'd definitely want a coconut palm too and maybe a date palm as well. (If you ever find a source of uncooked dates, plant the seeds. They come up easily.)
:)

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cous_cous February 7 2012, 18:04:14 UTC
Well, the dates will do OK here without much babying. Lots of Canary Island Date Palms around as landscape trees. I am forbidden to have them because Hubby is afraid the cockroaches will hide in them (not making that up!). Coconut palms are mostly out of our zone, but worth trying if you love them, which I do.

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rhodielady_47 February 7 2012, 18:17:19 UTC
And they always say WOMEN are the ones scared of the creepy-crawlies! Huh!
I'm the one who has to deal with every bug and spider that comes in the house.
I know the sort of roaches the south gets though. I used to go outside at night with a flashlight and a flyswatter looking for roaches on the house walls. Spend a few nights doing that and you definitely thin the indoor population down to zero---until the next bunch moves in. (Can't spray since I'm allergic to it.)
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cous_cous February 8 2012, 11:41:36 UTC
Yes, the palmetto bug may not be our official state bird, but it should be. I have to be pretty careful what I spray around the parrot, so we don't even own roach spray. Of course, we have to have periodic perimeter treatments, and Sam always keeps a shoe handy. Me, I shriek like a girl when I see those flying ones in the house.

But out in the yard? Nah, they don't bother me there; in the yard they serve a purpose.

And while Sam handles roaches in the house and lizards (he's faster at trapping them and moving them outside, not because I've any aversion), I'm the trapper and re-locator for everything else (Spiders, wasps, bees). We usually split duties on the snakes that occasionally wander in.

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romani123 February 6 2012, 21:56:37 UTC
Wild Parrots....Wow the wildest I have here are Pigeons....

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cous_cous February 7 2012, 18:06:16 UTC
Yeah, we have whole flocks of them that people have released, or that escaped, and naturalized.

None of the macaws, like they have in Miami, but Quakers, and Nanadays and Blue Crowned Conures.

Pretty awesome to see.

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utsi February 21 2012, 01:53:31 UTC
what a pretty picture i have for the week now :)

was thinking of your porch the other day & wondering how things were going with regards to it getting dealt with. so the update is nice. good luck in dealing with the repair crews and workers

things are starting early up here, but i'm not sure whether that's good or not. nothing that can't take a snap of cold though (which is good)

*hugs* :)

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