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Aging English expat/immigrant living in Andalucia, interests include orchids, gardening and growing avocados. Fighting a rearguard action against the encroaching years. I know they will win in the end, but it's all about putting up a good fight.
That is horrifically plausible. If he and his supporters destroy the US health system, there will be, sooner or later a huge death toll. I am sorry for the decent people who will get caught up in it all. If only it would destroy trump, his family and all his supporters who so richly deserve it.
February 13, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Que es el nomre de este libro porfa? He leido unase poemas de Lorca poemas cortas, pero muy gitano, muy espanol. Es triste pero no les puedo encontra otra vez. Sabe Ud. el titulo de un tal libro?
February 13, 2026 at 7:33 PM
It’s there, even if it’s hard to make out.
February 13, 2026 at 5:13 PM
If you look carefully at the R hand side, you can see a bud opening on the lower RH side. That’s a successful bud graft from last autumn.
February 13, 2026 at 5:08 PM
This is one of those trees a year on, which I’ll try grafting onto this spring
February 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
I love them. I have a dozen trees of varying age and type. Hass, Fuerte, Bacon, Reed, Lamb Hass and Mexicola Grande.

I'm slowly getting the hang of grafting. Couldn't make clefts work, and approach grafts have their own problems, so I'm trying bud grafting next.
February 13, 2026 at 3:38 PM
The retirement age is starting to echo Larry Niven's 'struldbrug club'
February 12, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Hey, who needs a functioning ecosystem anyway?

Lindisfarne said it best. "..and if you ever have a sleepless night, you count up your dough, it'll be alright.."

All fall down
February 12, 2026 at 11:32 PM
The question on everyone's lips is "Will the big round yellow burny thing return?"
February 12, 2026 at 11:26 PM
If you mean fungus gnats, they are usually a symptom that the media is too moist for too long. When I see them I hold off the next watering till the medium is dry, but not dangerously so. That usually kills off the larvae.
February 12, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I always found that sarracenias were the single best fly catchers there were, the trumpets would fill with flies in record time.
February 11, 2026 at 11:24 PM
and last year which was one of the hottest on record, we burned more oil than in any previous year.
February 11, 2026 at 11:21 PM
When it's hot, they go into bright shade, they get a copper drench come midsummer, but never let them sit in water and they must dry out between waterings. When they die back, remove dead leaves etc and store in a jar with holes in the lid, with sulphur against rot, ready to start again in Autumn.
February 11, 2026 at 11:16 PM
I like the acid yellow, I was given a couple of whites afew years ago, but they have been taking a beating. You have to plant them early as soon as the leaves show, water them with copper solution, then keep them out of the cold and rain all winter, then when it dries, get them out into the sun,
February 10, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Ah, the Frog Fountain. The Jardin del Califa is on this square, which is quite the dining experience.
February 10, 2026 at 7:46 PM