Warm greetings all! 🙏 💚
Yesterday my partner, @kai-sunrise, and I went back to GaiaYoga Gardens, the 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community, were we both lived (Kaï for a little over a year, and me for about three and a half years), to collect as many plants as possible from my nursery that I still have there. We were there for hours, collecting, organizing, and packing many trays of my beloved plants, to take back to The Sanctuary of The Blue Dragon, in Seaview, where Kaï and I both live now. We successfully brought two full vehicles (a car and a van - thank you for the help @sundoglight!) of plants, and unloaded them last night when we arrived we arrived, in the rain.
Aside from collecting loads of potted plants, I was also digging up a few important plants, that I didn't want to lose to them being overgrown with other plants, or cut down with a machete by someone unaware, such as three tea plants, Camelia sinensis, and a young mate tree, Ilex paraguariensis, all of which were in my close care for most of my time there. Kaï and I also collected cuttings of some of my more interesting Coleus varieties that I didn't have in pots. When I was a plant snob, many years ago, I wouldn't even look at Coleus, as I thought that they were so common. After having observed, grown, and collected Coleus for years now, I fell in love with them. They are so easy, and I have never seen the end of their kaleidoscopic diversity (especially when growing many variations together and they hybridize). Kaï also harvested many medicinal plants to make tea, and dug up more plantain, Plantago major, which I still have to get successfully growing in Seaview, but which grows prolifically at GaiaYoga.
The plants we brought this time were a mix of incredibly varied edibles, medicinals, ornamentals, and plants that could be used for in building or crafting (none of these designations are mutually exclusive, as one plant could fit under all of them). I'm not even going to try to list everything we brought this round, as there are so many. It may look like a lot of plants, but this is only a fraction of the plants that I still have back at GYG (GaiaYoga Gardens), that I still want to get to Seaview.
We chose to do part of the plant move yesterday, as @sundoglight, who helped us and drove his van full of my plants, is leaving Tuesday to go back to the mainland to visit family for a couple months, so we wanted to get at least part of it done before he left. While I do have a great many plants still back at GYG, we did bring a nice chunk. It's going to take me a bit of time to find places, both in my new nursery, and in the ground, for all the plants that we brought this time. I think it's better doing it in chunks and not all at once, as it would just be too overwhelming to deal with so many plants at once. A bit at a time. 😁
Today I found places for, and planted, three of my tea plants, and a mate, that were just in root balls after being dug up yesterday, and which needed to be planted in the ground immediately. This is the first tea that I planted. In the second photo, which gives more context of where I planted the tea, you can see a young cacao tree, Theobroma cacao, that I planted a few weeks ago. There was a patch of taro that was already growing in the spot that I planted the tea, that I moved to another bed. I added aged macadamia nut soil and mulch, then watered all very well. I'll have to keep all of them well watered for at least a week, until they acclimate and begin growing new roots.
The second tea that I planted, this time behind the older section of the border wall bed, that I've mentioned in multiple previous posts. The second shot, shows a wider view, with the newly planted tea just behind the bed.
Here's the third tea I planted today. I planted this one, and my mate tree close to the noni tree, under and around which I just recently finished clearing and leveling. I planted the tea a little closer to the noni, as it will appreciate a little more shade and protection. The mate is a bit farther away, in the right of the photos.
Here's the horde of my plants, just relocated from my jungle community, that I still need to go through, organize, and situate in the new nursery, and in the ground.
This is a gallon-jar-full of Coleus cuttings from several of my more interesting varieties, some of which originated in my nursery and planting beds. I'll pot them all up individually, then find good spots in the garden for them soon.
This is what I'm going to be doing as soon as I finish this post; pot up the Coleus cuttings, along with some papaya seedlings (that pop up all over the garden)!
I hope y'all enjoyed this 'quick' Sunday Seaview Garden Update! I'll share more about the plants that we relocated soon, as I go through them, organize, situate, and plant in the garden. Until then, I wish you all an exquisitely Beautiful and Sublime Sunday!
Thank you all so much for allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am deeply grateful! 🙏 💚
Image created by @doze.