If Only It Were So Easy

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 Gorgeous slanting light at this time of year reaching through the atmosphere at a lower angle, making the air seem dusky, making everything glow gold.  The whole effect is something like this:
Magical.

 I pondered the front slope a bit, enjoying the light.  My favorite bit is this cluster of Yucca rostrata, Yucca queretaroensis, and Agave 'Blue Glow'.  There are some ugly bits around it, making the bit not wholly satisfying.   
I futzed around with photoshop and moved Agave marmorata and A. guiengola over a little, and added another 'Blue Glow', and did a bit of cropping.
  Ah, that is more satisfying!  If only it were so easy to do this with the real plants on the slope.  That would indeed be magical.

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  1. outlawgardenerNovember 21, 2018 at 6:45 AM

    Magical mouse gardening!

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  2. Kris PetersonNovember 21, 2018 at 12:10 PM

    I'm inept with photoshop but even so it looks a lot easier than digging up those prickly specimens and moving them. The plants would probably prefer the magical transformation too. Are you planning to tackle that the hard way?

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    1. Hoover BooNovember 21, 2018 at 1:09 PM

      That Agave marmorata, the big one on the upper right, must weight 300 lbs. So, no.

      It does motivate me to move some of the small plants and add better plants to make the ugly bits go away. I guess you could call the photoshopping a design thought-exercise?

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  3. Lisa at GreenbowNovember 22, 2018 at 3:12 AM

    This is a fun exercise. I have never even thought of doing such exercise. Maybe this winter i will do some of this. One can always use a little more exercise. ;)
    I love all of those big ole prickly plants you have. I wish I could grow them.
    Happy Thanksgiving.

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    1. Hoover BooNovember 22, 2018 at 9:53 AM

      I sure can use the exercise! Every climate has special plants--I can't grow some of the beauties you can.

      Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, Lisa.

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  4. RecomenzarNovember 22, 2018 at 7:02 AM

    beautiful blog you have and I just discovered you.Thank you for sharing it

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  5. bittsterNovember 23, 2018 at 6:07 AM

    Oh my gosh, even just the thought of repotting my little dwarf agave scares me a little, so looking at those huge spiny monsters would make me consider giving up! But only for a minute, and like you said it makes you think some more about where the next little bit goes and how it will work into the bigger picture.
    I think this would be fun to do with every new planting, and then looking back in a few years to see how it really turned out. I know mine would be completely different... yet sometimes even better! (except for the complete failures which I never mention again)

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    1. Hoover BooNovember 23, 2018 at 2:51 PM

      The little Agaves are easy, let them fall out of the pot face down into soft, fluffy something--soil or potting mix--so the leaves don't break. Grab the roots like hair, pull off the oldest, dried leaves at the bottom of the rosette with pliers, ease the cleaned up rosette back into a half-full-of-soil pot, spoon in the rest of the soil, add a layer of pebbles or gravel for mulch. Vastly easier than cacti or dyckias/hecktias, which require tongs, a piece of thick carpet or a rolled magazine used as tongs, welder's gloves...those are the really nasty plants.

      I wish I was better at photoshop; successes are purely accidental with that. Same for gardening--successes are dumb and happy accidents.

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