I have always wanted to name my garden. A few weeks ago Carol over at May Dreams Gardens made this the topic of conversation for two posts, and got me thinking more about it.
"Lizard Hollow!" I proudly exclaimed to Chris shortly after reading those posts.
"Uhh....ok." he replied.
We've always had a small brood of lizards skittling about, and recently a small nest must have hatched because there are baby lizards everywhere! We've noticed their numbers climb as our property was suddenly weaned from synthetic fertilizaers and pesticides the moment we moved in. The lizards are so cute, and have certainly garnered my inside cats' attentions. Travis was just sitting at the back door staring intently all day yesterday, and is doing it again right now (picture).
Yesterday Chris and I went to the side garden with hopes of trimming back the monstrous tomatoes (and picking a few to munch on), pulling out the watermelon plants (sidenote: we got a pretty bad whitefly infestation and the one watermelon we were waiting on split, effectively ending that experiment), and seeing what else we may have missed while that horrible bug held us hostage from our own garden.
I walked to the back of the beds once the watermelon was all cleaned up and located this
Something tunneled underneath the corner bed on both sides! We've never seen a mouse or rat, no sign of wasps, too large for ants...we surmise it must be where the lizards live. LIZARD HOLLOW! I'm psychic. (We always heard the lizards rustling back here too...)
So our garden is thusly named, Lizard Hollow.
I also planted some more seeds where I cleared away watermelon debris:
Sweet Pea 'Early Gigantea Mixed Colors'
Radish 'Crimson Crunch'
Radish 'Easter Egg II'
Carrot 'Tendersweet'
Carrot 'Little Finger'
Lettuce 'Buttercrunch'
Pea 'Burpeeana Early'
And since Blogger is not cooperating this morning and not allowing me to upload any more pictures, I made a slideshow.
Sep 8, 2007
Lizard Hollow
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Katie, I came to visit your blog from Nan's Letters from a Hill Farm. I like your name for the garden. How nice to have baby lizards around! I thought you might find interesting my blog entry on how and why the Chinese name their gardens. The url is http://beingknowingdoing.blogspot.com/2007/08/naming-garden.html My blog is not about gardening but I do like to read about gardening and gardeners. I'd like to read the post in Carol's May Dreams Gardens that you refer to but I can't find it. Would you have the url?
I love the name of your garden... Lizard Hollow. It's perfect, it's wonderful, it's a great name for a garden!
Carol at May Dreams Gardens
Katie - congrats on coming up with a name! YIKES - Lizards???
What a cool name, Katie! We get the small green anoles and some fence lizards here - what kind are yours?
You can wave the Lizard Hollow flag high to celebrate their presence in your poison-free garden.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
I love the name!! We named our farm after an Anne of Green Gables book called Anne of Windy Poplars. I love those books, we have lots of wind, and lots of poplars so it seemed perfect. Just as I was writing "lots of wind" the wind blew open my front door. Twilight Zone music, please.:<)
Love the name Katie, good choice. And I love Lizards. The only creature living in my yard is the tortoise, but he is mean. I don't think Lizards would make it in my yard, too many birds and the dogs like to chase things. I do want to design part of my yard for frogs. I like the sound at night. Keep posting photos. It is motivation for me to do something with my yard!
I've considered naming mine 'Waters of Pomona & Vertumnus'.
I'm not totally set on it yet but I think it's a good choice, my street's name is Waters ave. and I live in Pomona (named after the goddess of orchards and gardens), I added Vertumnus to add the changing seasons of my garden.
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