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stan510

By Stan510


My front yard.

The home to the left is my rental cottage...and the Home to the right it my massive estate (eyes rolling)..next to the empty lot that has given me a headache with its Gophers that ate many palms and rare shrubs,Racoons (ate my Koi,Goldfish) and Possums..that I guess eat my fern fiddleheads. Wild Kingdom. Fun.



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I remember those days in the Bay Area of battling gophers.

31 Oct, 2014

 

I pulled up a Rhapsis palm the day before. It had been a large healthy plant on the porch..kept falling over on a windy day. Planted it..gophers found it after a year. All I saw Andy was rhizomes and three 2" roots. Its repotted as is a 6' green Ti plant. No roots and part of the trunk eaten. It had been in ground 6 or 7 years.

31 Oct, 2014

 

Yes, I know how horrible gophers can be. I had a large F. benjamina, which I thought was well-established and it was leaning one day...damaged from gophers. This was when I lived in Mission San Jose, Fremont. I could never grow a Dypsis decaryi without it being eaten by gophers...they loved the roots!

1 Nov, 2014



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