#fun fact! purslane grows wild and perennially here so I’m trying to get some going between the pineapples! | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

egregiousderp · 1 year ago

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No snow in Miami since the fifties I can say, lol. People here also flip out if it drops below sixty though so that’s probably for the best. But it’s sweet of you to wish us snow! It’s a pretty warm Christmas right now!

#snow would totally destroy our winter garden too so this is for the best #fun fact! purslane grows wild and perennially here so I’m trying to get some going between the pineapples!#‘Jackson’ my little galaxy pepper plant is actually putting out little baby peppers too so #what I really want to do is sneak home and plant some citrus trees of our own #we’re in orange harvest right now too!#some of the varieties are a bit frost resistant #(I used to be up in Valencia county where the oranges stay ont he tree a full year to ripen? they can take some frost.)#keep trying to grow avocados but they inexplicably lose all their leaves and die #(which is a shame because I want them FOR their leaves.)#our poor roses are constantly stressed out though because they never get a proper winter to go dormant in #turns out a lot of things need a rest period #and our sunlight’s so bright even roses take partial sun #(our soil’s really friggin weird too: like hydrophobic half sand half topsoil?)#(and you dig down a few feet and hit a solid layer of limestone because we’re a raised coral bed?)#(a lot of the trees struggle between that and the hurricanes I mean.)#so just saying: snow is pretty but it would make things pretty weird #plus it’s like #FRESH snow that’s pretty #you get past the just fallen bit and it’s like ‘oh okay this is pretty mid actually’#(it IS quiet though)#it would also really ruin your bird populations #winter’s usually when we steal all your birds and I get my hedges FULL of cardinals and little finches!

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