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If you stumbled among this site, "Evelyn’s Twigs, Thyme and Stranger Things Garden" is a collection of journal entries that I have kept on my computer for years, and have now decided to post. The journal contains my successes and failures with my favorite selections of plants. I'm talking about more than 50 years of caring for and living with green things. Not everything is here. More of it is learned and store in my head. However, here I will share facts about each plants, my research, as well as my personal and gathered tips on their care. I was not planning to post my houseplant and backyard journals online, so editing them for errors was not a priority to me. This being the case, perhaps, one day I will correct all the spelling and grammar errors in both of them. We would not want people to think I did not know better, when I was only being lazy. Again, no apologizes. It is what it is for now.

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

How My Garden Grows, or Not, Sic: Journal Entry 06/05/2024

 My white "Knock Out" rose bush has died. I don’t know what was put in its barrel but I could not reverse it. It was in that barrel for two years without a problem. It was an easy plant to care for, and looked so beautiful and healthy earlier this year. The same is true of my Chicago fig trees and the Elephant Ear plants. They were targeted. All of them have either mysteriously died of some unknown substance or are struggling to live. I wish people would stay out of our yard. There are “no trespassing” signs and security cameras everywhere. However, I haven’t been able to catch the criminal attacking my plants because another criminal associated with them is turning off my network at night and has not been caught either. Worse my internet provider is not doing anything to find that criminal among them. I have reported these internet interruptions repeatedly. 






I also found cat poop floating on the top of the screen covering the kitchen containers that I use to reclaim water. I was so disgusted with the criminal that place it there that I forgot to take a picture; however, I dumped the water, cleaned the containers with soapy bleach and through the two draw sting screen netting in the washer. What a nasty minded criminal and to think he/she is one of our neighbors, who really should make an appointment with a shrink for his/herself.

He/she is probably responsible for the number homeless people wanting to start up conversations with me on the street and the buses. They have been reported. One woman was a real nut job or a good actress because of her tales of woes were so bad. I finally told her “enough was enough”, and I really hope she understood that I never want see her or her like again. Should she or any others homeless people attempt to strike conversation with me, I will call the police then and there.

As for all the security cameras, don't be fooled. We are on the side of the law after all, and the cameras are not there because we fear anyone, but no thanks to the narcissists and their erk, we are trying to catch thieves and other criminals trespassing and destroying our properties.

Nevertheless, I was up at 3 A.M. doing laundry and leaf feeding all the garden  plants with their specialized Miracle Gro. The same stuff I buy and use every year