{"id":24428,"date":"2011-03-28T02:48:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T08:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/?p=24428"},"modified":"2013-05-01T09:46:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T15:46:52","slug":"another-grass-bites-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2011\/03\/another-grass-bites-the-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"“Another Grass Bites the Dust”"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01379.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24429\" title=\"East_Side_Patch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01379-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01379-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01379-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Hot temperatures and humid conditions combined once again with dusty, dry conditions almost had me reaching into my freezer for a ready-made iced-turban this past week as I continued to perform late clean up chores and a few on-the-spot area reorganizations.\u00a0 This warm spell has broken the winter dormancy of many plants in the Patch, filling out the artemesia, greening up the feather grasses and re-emerging the canna lilies…almost everything has greened up with the exception of my Mexican lime tree<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"> <em>(you cannot miss it in the distance, I hate walking past it)<\/em><\/span>, but it is always last to show signs of life. I am considering removing this tree and replacing it with another sabal major palm, I have the space and sun here.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01371.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24444\" title=\"Japanese maple\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01371-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"1206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01371-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01371-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">My Japanese maple has fresh spring foliage next to my pond, it always looks its best at this time of year, before it gets sun roasted,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01373.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24445\" title=\"pyracantha \" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"1205\" \/><\/a>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">and this pyracantha <\/span><\/p>\n<h1><em> <\/em><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Pyracantha coccinea<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">is currently filling the back third of my yard with its distinctive pungent aroma, an aroma that is pulling in all manner of insects like this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01387.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-24446\" title=\"Mournful thyris\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01387-1024x746.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01387-1024x746.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01387-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01392.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-24447\" title=\"Thyris sepulchralis\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01392-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"271\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Mournful thyris,<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><em> <\/em><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Thyris sepulchralis<\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n<h1><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">It appears that this genus has been changed from Thyris to genus Pseudothyris?\u00a0 Entomologists help here please? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Another apt name for these stout moths is:\u00a0 picture-winged leaf moths. This one was way too busy on these pyracantha blooms to even care about the camera. <\/span><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>Another insect-first in the Patch.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fr2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24673\" title=\"fr2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fr2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fr2.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fr2-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">I have my pyracantha tucked well away, squeezed between my garden shed and my neighbor’s fence.\u00a0 This plant is dangerous, and it ranks right up there with bougainvillea and pampas as a shrub wielding an attitude of malicious, flesh-slashing intent to the unacquainted. This plant needs a really quiet place, an out of the way nook, a never-to-be-entered area to flex its gangly and gnarly thorny sprawl. The aptly named firethorn, if appropriately positioned, does provide an impenetrable barrier from any uninvited guests, its defenses also provide protected cover for birds. Check out some amazing pruned pyracantha hedges, berries and more general information here:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyracantha.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pyracantha.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">I personally prefer the more natural habit this plant exhibits if left to its own vicious meanderings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01349.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-24665\" title=\"Unknown_bug\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01349-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01349-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01349-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01350.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-24666\" title=\"Unidentified_bug\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01350-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01350-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01350-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a>These tiny bugs were all over the blooms of this pyracantha, I pulled a flower cluster from the plant and placed it on a tree stump…this one quickly found a hiding place. Anybody have any ideas what these are?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>Thanks for the ID meredee (see comments section)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01326.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-24469\" title=\"Old Pampas Grass\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01326-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01326-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01326-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01330.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-24470\" title=\"Under_construction\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01330-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01330-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01330-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">You can see my pyracantha safely positioned to the left of my shed <em><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">(right picture)<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">While I was nosing around in this rather gnarly corner area of the Patch, I unconsciously walked into my shed, grabbed a thin shovel<\/span> <em><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">(my now preferred implement of choice for this activity)<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">, and took out yet another old pampas grass. This grass has served me well but it was getting rather long in the tooth as you can see, and besides, after taking out its partner-in-arm-slashing-crime a few weeks back, it has sort of been floating in space in all its straggly glory…it simply had to go, I mean look at it!\u00a0 A couple of rugby tackles and some ridiculous jujitsu kicks and lots of root cutting later, it was out and hoisted high onto my already ridiculously high compost pile,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01494.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24495\" title=\"Compost_Pile\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01494-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01494-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01494-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">…note to self:<\/span><\/em> I must get some Milorganite<strong>…<\/strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">immediately! <\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">(Thanks for this volume reducing tip Andrew)<\/span><\/em><strong> <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01358.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-24473\" title=\"Phyllostachys nigra\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01358-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"778\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong>I decided to remove this black bamboo out of this stock tank, <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>(an activity that actually turned out harder than extracting the pampas grass!) <\/em><\/span> I had new plans for this stock tank.<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01402.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24478\" title=\"Phyllostachys nigra\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01402-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"782\" \/><\/a>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>Phyllostachys nigra<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong> <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">I trimmed the root ball significantly and placed the bamboo in its new container:<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01495.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24496\" title=\"Black_bamboo_container\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01495-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01495-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01495-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">With the stock tank now empty, I rolled it through my gate into its new position among the Persian ivy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">After back-filling it with scrap aggregate to take up some of the volume, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01374.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24558\" title=\"Stock_tank\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01374-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01374-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01374-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a>I filled it up with dirt, then water, and transplanted bunches of horsetail reed for future vertical evergreen structure. A word of warning, when you first fill with water the tank has a tendency to aggressively “burp”, mine actually made a very realistic flatulent noise before proceeding to “throw up” a small amount of dillo dirt onto my shoulder…nice. I will eventually train the Persian ivy into a circle around the tank, now to finish the surrounding hardscaping.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01382.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-24475\" title=\"Stock_tank_dirt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01382-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01382-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01382-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01384.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-24476\" title=\"Stock_tank_dirt_Horsetail Reed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01384-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01384-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01384-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Moving on:<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01340.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24479\" title=\"Mock_Orange\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01340-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01340-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01340-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">While I was planting the black bamboo I noticed that all of the main branches on my adjacent mock orange had developed cracks, splits and fissures in them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01355.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-24482\" title=\"Bark_split\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01355-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01355-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01355-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01354.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-24483\" title=\"Bark Fissure\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01354-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01354-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01354-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">This shrubs inner bones were exposed as the outer bark was peeling away, surely this had to be a natural growth habit?\u00a0 Just to be sure I made a detour to visit one of my favorite trees at the Zilker Japanese Garden at last weekend’s garden festival, a monster pittosporum, about the same age as me:<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01432.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24484\" title=\"Monster_pittosporum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01432-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01432-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01432-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">There it is on the left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01433.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-24485\" title=\"pittosporum_trunk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01433-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01433-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01433-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01434.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-24486\" title=\"pittosporum_trunk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01434-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"570\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">I was happy to find the same fissures and splits albeit on a much grander scale.\u00a0 These shrubs \/ trees have an insane trunk structure. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">The Hinckley\u2019s columbine, azaleas and sago palms were also putting on a great display…<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01459.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24528\" title=\"Hinckley\u2019s columbine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01459-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01459-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01459-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01443.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-24501\" title=\"azaleas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01443-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01443-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01443-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01452.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-24502\" title=\"Sago_palms\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01452-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01452-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01452-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Back in the Patch I snooped into the hearts of my own sago palms and was happy to find, although now pruned completely bald, new spring growth was slowly unfurling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01362.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24507\" title=\"Sago_palms\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01362-759x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"806\" height=\"1088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01362-759x1024.jpg 759w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01362-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">On a darker note:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"> (insert…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/e6_DarthVader_Big_6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24509\" title=\"DarthVader\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/e6_DarthVader_Big_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/e6_DarthVader_Big_6.jpg 403w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/e6_DarthVader_Big_6-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">labored breathing just about now)…<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Sheee…Cuff<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01481.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24508\" title=\"agave americana\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01481-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"806\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01481-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01481-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">I pried out my final agave americana from the ground after discovering once again a weevil hole in one of it’s sharp blades.\u00a0 I lifted it up onto my operating picnic table,<\/span> <em><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">(I thought it a more appropriate extraction setting<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><em><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">for yet another patch postmortem)<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/dexter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24575\" title=\"DEXTER (Season 2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/dexter-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/dexter-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/dexter-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/dexter.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>While I was whistling the theme tune from “Dexter”,\u00a0 my daughter excitedly pointed out yet another Darth Evil Weevil running for safety toward the edge of the operating table. It is funny how these long-snouts seem to emerge after the agave is out of the ground, it is like they are “inconvenienced” and already grumpily looking for another “undisturbed” agave to move into and destroy, but not this one…no chance.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01483.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24510\" title=\"Agave_weevil\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01483-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01483-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01483-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">She spotted it, and in a true Rock-Rose fashion <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/wwwrockrose.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wwwrockrose.blogspot.com\/<\/a><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">, she squished it and immediately made me a proud parent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/forrest-gump-1994-02-g.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24696\" title=\"forrest-gump-1994-02-g\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/forrest-gump-1994-02-g-1024x694.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/forrest-gump-1994-02-g-1024x694.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/forrest-gump-1994-02-g-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/forrest-gump-1994-02-g.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><em><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">“I promise I will not mention the weevil ever again…Jenny” :-)<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Between the weevil and the frosts of last winter, my agave population has been substantially diminished.\u00a0 I thought this would bother me, but it has not. The process, like my recent purging of four pampas grasses, has opened up new areas to fresh evaluation and potential new plantings and hardscaping opportunities.\u00a0 Also my planting tastes have changed significantly since these beasts were placed in the ground.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01486.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24518\" title=\"Ceder Carcass\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01486-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01486-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01486-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">For now, the new gaps in my cactus and succulent bed will be taken up with this mammoth ceder carcass courtesy of Bob at Draco Gardens, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dracogardens.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/dracogardens.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01498.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24525\" title=\"Ceder Carcass\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01498-1024x695.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"806\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01498-1024x695.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01498-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/a> it fits in Patch perfectly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Finally:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01496.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24526\" title=\"Sotol_Ragwort\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01496-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"807\" height=\"1211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01496-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01496-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 807px) 100vw, 807px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">A sotol wearing a bright ragwort tie…<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01395.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24534\" title=\"Mountain Laurel_new growth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01395-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"806\" height=\"1210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01395-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01395-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">…and more new mountain laurel growth then I have seen in a number of years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01497.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24700\" title=\"ESP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01497-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01497-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01497-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/a>The best things this week: an Austin bloggers get together at Pam Penick’s garden <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penick.net\/digging\/\">http:\/\/www.penick.net\/digging\/<\/a><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"> and afterwards a daddy-daughter dance \/ date…dinner at Guero’s, then onto the dance to trip the light fantastic.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01464.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24537\" title=\"Daddy and daughter dance_2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01464-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01464-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01464-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01468.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-24538\" title=\"DD_Dance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01468-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01468-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC01468-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOkay so we finished at 9:30pm, but it felt like midnight to us both.\u00a0 I had a great date Miss P, and I am eternally sorry that I broke out into a habitual rock \/ goth dance as soon as Joan Jet: “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” came on, I could not help myself…still, better get used to it now, it will be even more humiliating when I perform it with my customized satin black walking frame…it is only a matter of time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><em><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Thanks for my birthday dinner, cake and Wii fun G&T.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/il_fullxfull.146745718.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24692\" title=\"Plants vs Zombies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/il_fullxfull.146745718.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Stay Tuned for:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>\u201cPlants vs Zombies\u201d<\/em><\/span><em> <\/em><\/h1>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">All material \u00a9 2011 for eastsidepatch. Unauthorized<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"> intergalactic reproduction strictly prohibited, and<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"> punishable by late <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>(and extremely unpleasant)<\/em><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"> 14th century planet Earth techniques.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is in the air, a stock tank burps in the air (and throws up a little dillo dirt on my shoulder)…you would not want to miss that!<br \/>\nThis week in the Patch has a lot of re-organization is going on. Lots of star guests drop in including Freddie Kruger, who we have not seen for quite some time. A new bog pond goes in, and another evil Vader goes out, it is all happening this week down in the East Side Patch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,147,76,529,206,84,92,783,418,10,88,322,782,547,448,68,207,826,769,827,768,541],"tags":[104,786,841,846,835,843,837,845,840,245,828,833,2708,28,830,47,701,834,839,836,838,832,829,844,842,2693,280,831],"class_list":{"0":"post-24428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-agaves","7":"category-artemisia","8":"category-bamboo","9":"category-beetles","10":"category-cactus","11":"category-circular-bed","12":"category-citrus","13":"category-diseases","14":"category-flowers","15":"category-hardscaping","16":"category-insects","17":"category-mock-orange","18":"category-palms","19":"category-pampas-grass-2","20":"category-planters","21":"category-pond","22":"category-propagation","23":"category-pyracantha","24":"category-sago-palms","25":"category-shrubs","26":"category-spring_2011","27":"category-underground-things","28":"tag-agave-americana","29":"tag-agave-weevil","30":"tag-azaleas","31":"tag-birthday","32":"tag-black-bamboo","33":"tag-ceder-carcass","34":"tag-containers","35":"tag-dance","36":"tag-hinckleys-columbine","37":"tag-horsetail-reed","38":"tag-japanese-maple","39":"tag-milorganite","40":"tag-mock-orange","41":"tag-mountain-laurel","42":"tag-mournful-thyris","43":"tag-pampas-grass","44":"tag-persian-ivy","45":"tag-phyllostachys-nigra","46":"tag-pittosporum","47":"tag-planters-2","48":"tag-pond-burping","49":"tag-pyracantha-2","50":"tag-pyracantha-coccinea","51":"tag-ragwort","52":"tag-sago-palms-2","53":"tag-sotol","54":"tag-stock-tank","55":"tag-thyris-sepulchralis"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>"Another Grass Bites the Dust" - East Side Patch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2011\/03\/another-grass-bites-the-dust\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""Another Grass Bites the Dust" - East Side Patch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spring is in the air, a stock tank burps in the air (and throws up a little dillo dirt on my shoulder)...you would not want to miss that! 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