Comments on: Doings Around the Ranch… http://thesingingbirdblog.com/2007/06/20/doings-around-the-ranch/ tweet, tweet Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:48:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: 3cmum http://thesingingbirdblog.com/2007/06/20/doings-around-the-ranch/#comment-4684 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:45:46 +0000 http://thesingingbirdblog.com/2007/06/20/doings-around-the-ranch/#comment-4684 Hi. Longtime reader of this and your travel site. Love the going ons at your ranch as my mum lives in the valley of the sun - I don't - I live in the UK, but its fun to hear of AZ! Living in an urban area with a dog and 6 year old and a 1 year old about to arrive from China, we bit the bullet and bought fake grass for our little wee patch. We had returfed etc 3 times in 7 years. Never in a million years did I ever think I would believe in fake grass. But its great and looks very real. And very eco efficient!! Doesn't need water. To that end my mum (a past head of the desert botanical garden) who was extremely anti the idea when she heard what we were going to do (she actively despises any plant related item taht is fake), actually likes it. Just a thought!! Hi. Longtime reader of this and your travel site. Love the going ons at your ranch as my mum lives in the valley of the sun - I don’t - I live in the UK, but its fun to hear of AZ!

Living in an urban area with a dog and 6 year old and a 1 year old about to arrive from China, we bit the bullet and bought fake grass for our little wee patch. We had returfed etc 3 times in 7 years. Never in a million years did I ever think I would believe in fake grass. But its great and looks very real. And very eco efficient!! Doesn’t need water.

To that end my mum (a past head of the desert botanical garden) who was extremely anti the idea when she heard what we were going to do (she actively despises any plant related item taht is fake), actually likes it.

Just a thought!!

]]> by: FDChief http://thesingingbirdblog.com/2007/06/20/doings-around-the-ranch/#comment-4629 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:47:40 +0000 http://thesingingbirdblog.com/2007/06/20/doings-around-the-ranch/#comment-4629 Poppies...(said in Wicked Witch of the West voice) I am mortally embarassed that your grass (in the desert, painfully created at great expense) looks better than mine here in rainy Portland. Man, am I a bad howeowner or what..? Hope you had a great palm tree kind of day. Poppies…(said in Wicked Witch of the West voice)

I am mortally embarassed that your grass (in the desert, painfully created at great expense) looks better than mine here in rainy Portland. Man, am I a bad howeowner or what..?

Hope you had a great palm tree kind of day.

]]> by: Nicole http://thesingingbirdblog.com/2007/06/20/doings-around-the-ranch/#comment-4570 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:18:57 +0000 http://thesingingbirdblog.com/2007/06/20/doings-around-the-ranch/#comment-4570 That sounds like a whole load of work getting something to grow up there. I vote for a pretty zeroscaped pile in the front. It would be fun to run on. Nice Pjs if I do say so myself. That sounds like a whole load of work getting something to grow up there. I vote for a pretty zeroscaped pile in the front. It would be fun to run on. Nice Pjs if I do say so myself.

]]> by: jse http://thesingingbirdblog.com/2007/06/20/doings-around-the-ranch/#comment-4526 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:25:57 +0000 http://thesingingbirdblog.com/2007/06/20/doings-around-the-ranch/#comment-4526 What a lovely stool! So cool. The garden looks amazing too! What a lovely stool! So cool.

The garden looks amazing too!

]]> by: Julie http://thesingingbirdblog.com/2007/06/20/doings-around-the-ranch/#comment-4524 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:32:38 +0000 http://thesingingbirdblog.com/2007/06/20/doings-around-the-ranch/#comment-4524 The white prickly poppy is one of the most photogenic wildflowers we have out here. My late husband couldn't pass up ANY opportunity to take yet another picture of one. I haven't been able to get the dang things to come up from seed! The white prickly poppy is one of the most photogenic wildflowers we have out here. My late husband couldn’t pass up ANY opportunity to take yet another picture of one. I haven’t been able to get the dang things to come up from seed!

]]> by: atomic mama http://thesingingbirdblog.com/2007/06/20/doings-around-the-ranch/#comment-4518 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:23:53 +0000 http://thesingingbirdblog.com/2007/06/20/doings-around-the-ranch/#comment-4518 Love the Bee's bench - how cute! Have fun at the PTF!! Love the Bee’s bench - how cute!
Have fun at the PTF!!

]]> by: walternatives http://thesingingbirdblog.com/2007/06/20/doings-around-the-ranch/#comment-4517 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:09:01 +0000 http://thesingingbirdblog.com/2007/06/20/doings-around-the-ranch/#comment-4517 Very impressed with your big ol' garden and your free-wheeling bluestem prickle poppies. And I think we need to make an effort to bring back the use of "heavenstoBetsy!" You're more than welcome, dear friend, for the step stool. Thank you for sharing that photo of the Bee - that's exactly what I pictured as I was woodburning. It truly warms my heart to see her sitting on it... xo Very impressed with your big ol’ garden and your free-wheeling bluestem prickle poppies. And I think we need to make an effort to bring back the use of “heavenstoBetsy!”

You’re more than welcome, dear friend, for the step stool. Thank you for sharing that photo of the Bee - that’s exactly what I pictured as I was woodburning. It truly warms my heart to see her sitting on it… xo

]]> by: Maia http://thesingingbirdblog.com/2007/06/20/doings-around-the-ranch/#comment-4516 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:57:23 +0000 http://thesingingbirdblog.com/2007/06/20/doings-around-the-ranch/#comment-4516 Hmmm... what about a thyme lawn? Or some other kind of creeping fragrant soft Xeric groundcover instead of grass? I use white clover in my lawn - but I doubt it would be happy in the desert. Or you know - you could just let the Bee roll around in the dirt. I am impressed by the magnitude of your vegetable garden! Hmmm… what about a thyme lawn? Or some other kind of creeping fragrant soft Xeric groundcover instead of grass? I use white clover in my lawn - but I doubt it would be happy in the desert. Or you know - you could just let the Bee roll around in the dirt.

I am impressed by the magnitude of your vegetable garden!

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