COMMENT 104294
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2010-09-11 10:20 AM |
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Thank you Billy for keeping me laughing especially while I'm learning something. Really, you're better than those guys on comedy central! It's a curious thing, a jillion gardeners in Santa Barbara but how many of them know about plants and what they need? You get my appreciation award for 2010.
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COMMENT 104299
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2010-09-11 10:45 AM |
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Brilliant. More! More!
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CHERIDIANE
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2010-09-11 05:54 PM |
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I agree with everything LIFESIGHS posted. Funny, instructive, illustrated even, and true. Yeah, bring us some more. The good, the bad, the ugly.
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COMMENT 104392
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2010-09-11 07:58 PM |
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Billy - I've decided that ALL SantaBarbarians are weather-wusses. At 74, it's toooo hot. And at 70? Tooooo cold. Trouble is, there are so so many days that fall into the narrow 'acceptable range'. I'd show you around the Singapore Botanic Garden (40' above sea level, 100 mi north of the equator), but you'd likely wilt in our constant equatorial summer. Yet all the hotel rooms are in the 'acceptable range' - and the plants are tropically unbelievable. Best to you, and SBBeautiful
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PATRICK
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2010-09-11 09:07 PM |
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Once again, I feel we dodged a bullet and (sigh of relief) Billy didn't shoot (or shoot down) our amateur gardening efforts.
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BILLY GOODNICK
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2010-09-11 09:40 PM |
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Thanks for all the swell comments. Even if I do take a shot at a reader's garden, I try not to show too much of the house to make it obvious. Lifesighs / Cheridiane: I'm glad the "take-away" makes it through. A spoonful of nitrous oxide helps the medicine go down.
Patrick - yes, you've made it through another year, but no promises for the next one. How about sending me your GPS coordinates? I promise I'll be gentle. Why not sign up for my Adult Ed class that started in a couple of weeks? 104392: Singapore, eh? That would be a nice trip, but I'm finding out very pointedly that I'm not cut out for the tropics. Maybe you could move the Singapore garden to Seattle?
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GREG
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2010-09-12 07:42 AM |
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good article - thank you.
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COMMENT 104418
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2010-09-12 08:48 AM |
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I don't read articles about plants because I find them boring - my lack of botanical interest is obvious from a glance at my yard - but I just had to see if said yard was mentioned, and once I started reading I couldn't stop - very well-written, entertaining and educational article!
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BONNER
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2010-09-12 10:22 AM |
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This was a goodie!!! Thanks.
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MTNDRIVER
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2010-09-12 10:46 AM |
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Good grief! You've said it all, Billy. What WERE they thinking??
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OAKTREE
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2010-09-12 11:17 AM |
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Oh Thank you, thank you! For dealing with people that butcher trees. Remember, when they did some mechanical test and they heard the trees "screaming" ? Wish I had saved that article. Anyway, you are a hero and we love you.
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SEEDLADY
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2010-09-12 12:11 PM |
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Great shots across the bow, Billy. There's someothing about both the poodled junipers (do people call it that anymore?) that remind me vagurly of the animation style of Fantasia...maybe of Ivynd Earle's style? Let's hope these people are not trying to repair their cars...
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COMMENT 104469
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2010-09-12 01:48 PM |
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I laughed so hard I cried. Thank you. "Pet without the poopies... neighbor thinks" is my personal favorite because I lived next door to THE butcher of trees for years. I still am in awe whenever I pass his house. The trunk has to be 4-5 feet in diameter, but the top (which used to be square, but is now round) is not allowed to get bigger than about 12 feet. The oddest thing is that this former neighbor's hobby is gardening. It just makes me laugh to think about it.
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COMMENT 104471
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2010-09-12 01:53 PM |
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Hey Billy, it's Sam, sbcc. Thought I'd ask if you've undertaken an interview with any of the gardening crews to see what they're doing and why, from their perspective. Maybe even start a 'little black book' of your own of the companies hired to do this... well, that may be a bit over the line, though. Something to think on. Great article, as usual.
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COMMENT 104483
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2010-09-12 04:28 PM |
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Whew!! I can only laugh AFTER I have quickly read through the "awards" to make sure nothing of mine is there... then I can go back and laugh hysterically (yes, and learn too) at this funny man!
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SARAH
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2010-09-13 10:46 AM |
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Hi Billy, I just signed up for your class and I'm #26 on the waiting list. Any chance you can get a bigger room and add more students? Thanks
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COMMENT 104747
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2010-09-13 07:19 PM |
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These are pictures of the dreaded 'mow/blow/n' go' crews in SB. Let it grow, grow grow and grow some more, then hack it back. That's their MO. Find a co/guy that cares - I have had a Japanese company service my lawn for the past 20 years and the place looks like Disneyland - they care.
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BILLY GOODNICK
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2010-09-13 09:10 PM |
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Sarah: I checked with my folks at Adult Ed and they regret to say there are no other rooms available that evening. Looks like a few folks will be able to add the class, but it's not likely I can get everyone in. Regrets. Please try again for the winter semester. Also, I'll be teaching two design workshops in October - one at Nopalito Native Nursery in Ventura on October 9 and another at Seaside Gardens in Carp on October 23. Check their websites for more info. It's not the same as my full class, but it might help.
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SARAH
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2010-09-15 08:54 AM |
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Thanks, I'll try again.
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GREENTOO
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2010-09-15 03:58 PM |
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Billy, You are still in rare form! Thanks for the laughs and the off kilter view of good old S.B.. Maybe the Garden Writers will chose us sometime so they will not have to hide out in their hotel rooms.
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