{"id":4629,"date":"2015-04-24T10:02:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T17:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogadmin.plantlust.com\/blog\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2023-11-17T23:13:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T07:13:11","slug":"flamingo-park-one-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantlust.com\/blog\/gardens\/flamingo-park-one-year-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Flamingo Park: one year later"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holy smokes, a year goes fast. It seemed like forever when trying to sell our Alameda house. It was a good house, and we loved living there for 33 years. (We bought it when we were twelve.) But then came\u00a0ranch fever–due in part to\u00a0property-tax shock–and we packed our bags for\u00a0Ranchville<\/a>*. (*This post by Ms. Danger Garden includes photos of two of the very ranch houses we looked at before settling in ours. Funny, no? They’re about six blocks from where we located, and I walk past them regularly. And the house she mentions as going over the spiky side, the source of Opuntia Santa<\/a>. All happenstance, I swear!)<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Alameda<\/a>
Alameda House with birches for winter interest and summer cooling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The forever it took to let go of our\u00a0old house,\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0even count the forever it took finding\u00a0our new Flamingo Park house. (Our realtor, Cathi Woodruff, is a genius.)<\/em> In my mind’s eye, we’re still \u00a0brand new here, and I imagine\u00a0I haven’t made\u00a0a dent in shaping\u00a0the new garden. What’s amazing, though, is how rambling the yard\u00a0with camera in hand tells\u00a0an entirely different story.<\/p>\n

\"Flamingo<\/a>
Flamingo Park house with Juniper and old garage door.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Old<\/a>
Old garage door with no glass.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"New<\/a>
New garage door with reeded glass to match front entrance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But I digress with garage doors. Back to the garden.<\/p>\n

Honestly, how is that I cannot keep track of how much we’ve done, or what I’ve planted where, let alone what plants were here when we moved in. So I thought I’d catalog a few of my surprises, and mention\u00a0a couple lessons learned.<\/p>\n\n\t\t