Botany 101

MaGyver staged a much needed intervention on the yard this weekend.

On The Grand Tour, she identified most of our indigent plant species and their redeeming qualities (if any).  We are the proud owners of a $40,000 ailing Pecan tree, $400 of agapanthus bulbs, a giant bamboo grove, several hideous™ Trumpet Vines, and something ominously named Mother in Law's tongue...  The not-quite-oleander forest remains a mystery.

Then she appropriated a pickup truck bed to fill to the brim with yard debris.  This makes outgoing truckload three.  In the process, she brought the dead Black Widow count to parity with the dead fly count.  

Then we're scavenging bricks from around the lot to build circular wells for deep watering the orange trees.  Dust with citrus/avocado food, add heirloom blue flag and iris and cover with mulch to hold the water in.  Pretty crafty, knowing I don't want to water ornamentals, she plants them on top of my most productive fruit tree.  At any rate, blue flowers contrasted against oranges should look groovy if the color theory video I watched the other day is true.  

Cinderblocks for retaining walls and cow manure arrive to kick start a larger scale composting operation.  Potting bench is relocated near putative vegetable garden.  

Homework:  water compost, mulch Trumpet Vine, cover tree and 100 yr old rose with said mulch, order Felco2 pruners, and get juicing.