One of my Orinoco Bananas with bloom May 30, 2012



Beginings of my citrus grove.



Over view from one corner of my back yard to the opposite front corner by the wood fence.

It works!  YAY!
Suzi

Thanks for your patience. I'll now try to upload some fig pictures in a new post soon.

Very impressive yard , Charles.  Great pics, too.

Great pictures.  Looks good.

Not used to seeing palm trees and inground pools i want more pictures. ; )

Please save that oak tree.  Bark will suffocate from amassed Ivy roots (and many other vine roots) and tree will weaken, die and fall over.

Simply removing the first 4-6 feet of vines will kill the rest of the vine off, the remnants up in the tree will eventually fall off.

Nice place and with many of the same plants we grow here. This house used to have an inground pool too. It's now the veggie garden. :)

I guess I'm an urban farmer!  Enjoy the pool/jacuzzi, and let the land produce what it can without disturbing the pool and the fun! 

You have a lot of opportunity it appears!  Go KINGS!

Good luck with all of your citrus and figs.  I sometimes get confused because we have a vineyard, primary interest, and I think "How do you grow grapes in that kind of humidity?"  Then this Southern California bred girl comes to her senses!

Suzi!
Kings won first round in the Stanley Cup!  Raising glass!

Excellent work. Ditto what Jason said. A few years ago two large Oaks in back of my property died from being covered with English Ivy vines. Since then every couple of months I check the base of each Oak trees in my property and if I see any English or Poison Ivy trying to climb its way up, I'll cut them with loppers or small hand saw and spray round up on them. 

good job Charles glad I could help 

The pool cracked or it would still be there. It was 18 by 36 feet and was on somewhat unstable soil. SoCal foothills and all. Now there is 6 feet of topsoil. :)

...and a much smaller koi pond. Or should I say heron/raccoon fishing hole. 'If you build it, they will come.' :)