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.) :)
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.
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.) :|
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.
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)
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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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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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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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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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