Inside

To access pictures of "before the rehab" check out Sotheby. Viewing these before pictures one can fully understand our neighbor's comment that this house "has had a hard life". I love having the original Stamm home closets with built in drawers beneath. There is a feel of authenticity however I know others think they are "old fashioned" and have them removed. 

When we were looking for a Stamm home to purchase in Santa Fe, energy efficiency was important to us. As I shared in the previous blog my (our) caring for Mother Earth is paramount in how we live our daily lives. So we were drawn to 1832 San Felipe Circle since it was rehabbed. The three individuals who completed the rehab. included the following that were to our liking: 

• major electrical upgrade with a new panel, grounded outlets,  and recessed lighting 
• dual pane windows, 
• on demand hot water heater, 
• remodeled kitchen with a pantry/utility room addition,
• refinished hardwood floors with matching hardwood floors in the kitchen and the pantry/utility,
• a single car, finished, insulated garage with new garage door and storage shelving, 
• and a new torch down roof which now still has a full year left on its warranty. 

The beauty of the whole house with new elastomeric stucco was augmented by a new front portal boasting a stunning mailbox. All of this visually very ascetically pleasing to "the eye".

View out the living room window.
"Zen curtains" were hung on the
outside of the 3 windows to
prevent bird collisions and deaths.

When we were moving into 1832 San Felipe Circle, we were greeted as we unpacked by two of the neighbors living in two different houses across the street. They were both very warm and welcoming. As one of them says, "this is the best neighborhood in Santa Fe." She is living in the house she grew up in so she does have a valuable perspective. We have been most impressed with the neighbors, their friendliness and willingness to chat when we see them . . . when meeting up on walks or just outside in the gardens when they walk past. San Felipe Circle is a cul de sac so there is minimal traffic on the street.

After spending almost 3 months in two different rentals, I was immediately confronted with the EMF's from the LED lights inside and out our entire, new to us home. Both Shasta and I are extremely sensitive to electromagnetic fields of these "new" lights that produce light up to 90% more efficiently than incandescent light bulbs so it is understandable why people are installing them. When we consulted an electrician, we were told the entire house's light fixtures would have to be replaced since specific wiring was done to allow for them. And he went on further stating that there was a federal mandate/law that when an old house is rehabbed and new lighting is installed, LED lights must be used. EEK! So after a home consult with a lighting expert no longer in business here in Santa Fe, we went off to her lighting store to purchase all new fixtures to be delivered directly to our house. Back came the electrician to install and take them away. 

Simultaneously Dwight investigated the best whole house water filter system. He identified one that removes both the fluoride and chlorine that is added to the Santa Fe water. Then came a plumber to provide a water line and install the system in the garage. Dwight built a "box" in which to enclose the system along with heating to insure in the Winter no freezing of the pipes through which the water flowed for filtration.

Window coverings were no where in the house windows. So since we had had such stellar experience with Hunter-Douglas wood blinds at MuRefuge, we had an excursion to Coronado Paint and Decorating on Cerrillos Road. We asked about the most energy efficient window coverings and went with their suggestion: Hunter Douglas honeycombed insulating blinds. It took several weeks before the installation occurred but we were glad to finally have some "privacy" inside the house. 

The faux Kiva fireplace was done by Sotelo, JM Construction and the color and texture is lovely to look at. Now the chimney sports a spark arrestor chimney cap we had installed when a chimney specialist came to evaluate the fireplace. The lovely color of the fireplace was the exception to the stark white throughout the rest of the house. This bright white offered no soothing of the soul. Oh my gosh: many, many, many trips to Coronado Paint and Decorating to secure first paper samples of color then pint containers of possible colors to paint various rooms; and then a return to buy enough paint for the entire house. This happened in May so we helped with moving furniture then made ourselves scarce during an entire week+ of painting. One day we had an outing to Georgia O'Keefe's Ghost Ranch which has a stunning landscape that often appears in her paintings.

At the same time the inside of the house was painted, so was the shed, pictured above, after it was mouse proofed. Some of the side panels, which contained huge rusted out holes, had to be replaced before the painting could be done.

Also, simultaneously the wooden door from the small room addition (pantry) that leads to the outside back yard was sanded and revarnished. During the Winter it was evident the door was not sealed properly to be an outside door. Unfortunately, the sanding was only done with a mechanical sander and not finished by hand so the door is not pristine by a long shot. It has been sealed however and continues to withstand rain and snow.

Both bathrooms fixtures were upgraded with matching ones. In the small bathroom off the master bedroom the shower head was lowered to allow the average person to enjoy an adequate showering experience. Then a handheld shower head with three functions was installed for the ease of bathing Shasta, our four legged member of the family, monthly.

With the heat of this Summer past that had no respite since monsoon rains did not occur, we decided to install air conditioning and while we at it a furnace and whole house air filtration system as well as a state of the art thermostat. All of these are by the company Trane. Some while before our relocation to Santa Fe we had a new Trane furnace installed at MuRefuge and were quite please. We decided to stick with what we had experienced. Tru Air Systems, LLC installers completed the project in a week. They were unrelently diligent. The inspector was a dog lover (well, all of the men were dog lovers) and he returned when we had questions about the functioning of the air conditioning which was so appreciated with the unrelenting high temperatures. We have been quite satisfied with the furnace this Winter. Both the air conditioner which is located on the ground outside of the Master Bedroom and the furnace which is in a hall closet, typical of a Stamm home, are quiet. A bonus for me is the tiny bathroom off the master bedroom which is "mine" has been warm throughout this present cold Winter. The previous Winters it was too cold to take a shower in the evenings.

Air Conditioner Condenser
Model# 4TTV8024A
Serial# 201235D1IF
The coil is inside above the furnace.
Model# 4PX*BU30BS3
Serial# 203216EN5G

The Trane furnace: Model #S9V2B060U3,
Serial# 20265TL13G
and on the very bottom of the picture
is the Electronic Air Cleaner
Model# TFD175CLFROOOF
Serial# 18285UR5

State of the art thermostat
that can be accessed from 
a SMART phone.
Model# TCONT850AC52UB
Note the lovely color of paint 
in the background: a soothing warm yellow/gold.

We were pleased to note when we were considering purchasing the house that it had an on demand hot water heater. We replaced a defunct hot water at MuRefuge with an on demand hot water heater and heralded the efficiency reflected in the drop in our monthly PNM bill. Here we keep buckets everywhere to catch the cold water as the hot water kicks in and delivers hot water. All this water we save from going down the sewer is carried out to water the fruit trees. These young trees are so grateful to get any water we supply! I am quite surprised how quickly the fruit trees are growing. Water in this arid high mountainous desert is in scarce supply so our focus since arriving has been to use the least amount possible.

Another strong plus, in my opinion, is the entire house has hardwood oak floors. The slats are thin in the Stamm tradition. In the kitchen we found these instead of the old linoleum pictured in the before of the latest renovation.

The new cabinets in both the kitchen and the additional room are beautiful. I have so enjoyed using them especially the pull out drawers for pots and pans as well as the drawer for spices, etc. 

When we moved in all of the appliances were new LG ones. I, as many of you who read my blog know am not an "image" person but a "body" based one. These LG appliances seem to be very popular but not to my taste. So all the appliances were found a different home except the stove which remains. A Zephr stove hood fan with a charcoal air filter replaced the microwave. From my sensitive body's assessment EMFs are emitted from microwaves no matter how well insulated. The food cooked in a microwave is turned into an isomer thus the human body cannot extract the nutrients. The dishwasher was replaced with a Miele one. I love Miele products because their "build quality of all Miele appliances is amazing – every single part in a Miele appliance is made at the Miele factory in Germany where they test them to last for 20 years."  The Miele dishwasher is nothing short of amazing! And of course, it will remain in the house for the new owners. The refrigerator is an energy efficient GE which is small but meets our needs extremely well since we have a chest freezer which will return to California with us.

We love our Stamm home which we have "made our own" since moving in. When life threw us a curveball (just as devastating as Barry Zito's curveball) that moving to sea level was necessary for my health, we continue daily to

Cherishing Mother Earth

"To cherish what remains of the Earth

and to foster its renewal 

is our only legitimate hope of survival."

Wendell Berry

Pink Wild Snapdragon (P. palmeri)

This stunning flowering plant

caught my eye on one of

our early walks along the 

Santa Fe River from

Frenchie's Field.

As once again we plan for relocation I reflect on the

transformation of the property we presently inhabit. As those of you who have followed this blog since it's inception, you are aware of how important restoring abused land is to me. Healing Mother Earth supports my well BEing: the process is one of such basic interaction and gives rise to a whole greater than the sum of its parts as the ole familiar

saying goes.  

"Let (us) respect and maintain

the purity of air, water, land and subsoil.

Let (us) cooperate to restore 

the ecological soundness of Mother Earth. 

. . . .

Let trees grow up by the billions

around the world. 

Let green life invade the deserts.

. . . . 

Let us survive

in peace and harmony with Mother Earth."

Hagen Hasselbalch

We downsized, in land and in house, considerably when we moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. We chose to live in the city of Santa Fe rather than out in the country. After much looking at houses throughout the city, our search narrowed to Stamm homes, built in the 1950’s in the territorial or pueblo style. The house we originally had under contract was in need of much upgrading. After withdrawing from that contract we spent time sitting in a newly renovated Stamm home just down the “circle” on a corner lot. “Too modern,”  was Dwight’s comment. And now he says, “this is one of the two best houses I have ever lived in.”

Santa Fe is in the midst of a Pinon Pine/Junipter forest, albeit midget trees related to the low rainfall per year (typically around 6 inches/ year). So I focused on what grows natively in this drought tolerant forest as a template for the transformation. Once these natives are established they need minimal watering which is so crucial here in the high mountainous desert.

This photo the front yard recently landscaped.
And the below picture portrays the beginning
of what I call the side garden.

When we bought the property, the landscaping had been done by the “professional” landscaper who was one of the three individuals who bought this house and property to “rehab”  and flip. The front and side yards were covered with landscape cloth then 11.5 tons of Santa Fe gravel was laid atop of this. The plants were non native including three aspen trees. An irrigation system was installed beneath the landscaping cloth in the “front” yard. 

The side yard was essentially empty of plants and at the very edge of the property was a HUGE pile of Santa Fe dirt (filled with all sizes of rocks) next to a very steep driveway which opens into the backyard through iron double gate.

The first Winter I planted a few native prickly plants in the side yard. I did not want the native prickly plants near where people would enter our house since they are not welcoming, in fact deter humans just by their prickly nature.

Claret Cup (Echinocereus triglochidiatus)

PRIORITY

This is  photo is of the backyard . . . before.
In the lower right is an ornamental plum tree
that I cut down and created a compost pile in its place.

Once the weather warmed, heralding Spring, the priority was to deal with the backyard. Goats’ heads, which I had never heard of, littered the backyard so whenever Shasta went out these brutal stickers got into the pads of her feet. These plants were pulled out as much as possible. A multitude of miniature Siberian elm trees and a mass of small Tree of Heaven were dug out.

At one time the backyard had been covered with rocks for low maintenance. These were raked to form pathways, and large rocks from the “dirt” pile outside the double gate line these paths. 

The sheet mulching began around the perimeter using our cardboard moving boxes covered with eight to ten inches of compost delivered by Reunity Resources. This was expensive compared to wood chips but it was necessary to speedily make the backyard hospitable to Shasta. 

If any of you are considering sheet mulching, “Steps in sheet mulching” appear on page 105 of Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison with Rey Mia Slay. I mulch all of our natural fiber clothing and any household goods made from natural fibers, like sheets and towels, etc. that have “worn out”. As these feed the soil . . . no need to throw them into the “landfill”!

1. Mulching with 8 to 12" of compostable ingredients 
2. Controls weeds, no need to weed before mulching! 
3. As these materials break down, micro organisms thrive, 
4. Soil nutrients increase 
5. AND, most importantly sequestering of carbon, one of the green house gases causing our climate catastrophe.

Neighbors who saw what I was doing volunteered their stored cardboard boxes too for the massive sheet mulching project in the back, front and side yard. Some were quite curious about this unfamiliar project happening at 1832 San Felipe Circle. I had many opportunities to educate intrigued passerbys. I even had one lady knock on my front door to ask who “my landscaper” was? She seems quite surprised when I said, “you are looking at her.”

Three raised beds were created, with help from a young and strong man, with basalt blocks, aka cement blocks. The pile of dirt outside of the double wrought iron gate was sifted for rocks and dumped into the raised beds filling them about half way. Garden blend from Reunity Resources filled the beds the rest of way.  

I thought, having had a garden for over 30 years in Sonoma County AND growing up gardening with my mother and maternal grandmother, that gardening in Santa Fe would flow as it always had for me. Nope! Gardening in the high mountainous terrain of Santa Fe has taken an incredible adjustment for me. Vegetable plants died. My stepdaughter said, “how can your zucchini plants not thrive. Everyone grows zucchini successfully?” Well, the first season I planted zucchini the plants died. 

So growing our food in the raised beds at first was a challenge. After three years, in 2020 for the first time, I thought “now I am getting the hang of it.” Of course, I could not grow anywhere near as much of our food as I did at MuRefuge. What did thrive was delicious to eat and was nutrient dense since the soil had been fed as well as compost applied! It has been enormously advantageous to have 2 of the 3 raised beds protected with plastic greenhouse cover, better than shade cloth.

The 2 longest raised beds sport asparagus plants. These are quite slow growing here. 

My practice is to companion plant so that plants experience synergy and it allows for “crop rotation” as well. My go to reference is Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening by Louise Riotte. In the uncovered raised bed I repeatedly plant tomatoes. Tomato is the only seasonal edible plant, that I am aware, which likes to be planted in the same place year after year. And the tomato varieties I have planted I choose specifically for the Santa Fe climate. Since I always start my own plants, it is easy to do this. I repeatedly order most of my seeds from Turtle Tree Seed. I also use their annual biodynamic planting calendar as a guide for successful planting of both seed and plant. Lettuce, arugula and Cascadia peas thrive in the early Spring inside of these hoop houses. In fact, in the small hoop house I have grown arugula as the temperatures start to warm in the late Winter.

Around the raised beds grows
Ashworth corn (for its "old fashion" flavor I grew up with in Iowa
and the seeds can be planted very early when the soil is still cool,
squash and Minnesota Midget melons which are just perfect for one person.
The melons especially love growing between the portal cement
and the longest uncovered raised bed.
Their leaves are quite beautiful as well.

An orchard of seven fruit trees from Tooley’s Trees in Truchas was planted around the South and East perimeter inside the adobe walls. Amidst the trees have been planted flowering plants, mostly native, to attract pollinators for abundant fruit. Berries and grape vines for both human and bird consumption were planted.   

So sorry this is so dark!
The above picture was taken on September 13, 2018.
It shows the placement
of the fruit trees and pollinator plants
along the South adobe wall.
The mulching is also visible.

MULCHING

As Summer approached I advertised free Santa Fe gravel on Craigslist, “free” to anyone who wanted to come and remove the gravel from the front and side yards. A man responded. He had a very, very, very long dirt driveway on which he wanted gravel. Over 6 weeks he removed and loaded 11.5 tons into his pickup with shovel. Upon completion he commented on how much stronger he was. I was happy and he was happy!

Unfortunately the landscape cloth went into the landfill as I could not find anyone who would reuse it. The irrigation lines were removed. Before I could fully mulch the front yard dirt, we had an enormous monsoon rain. The houses across the street were flooded. Luckily as we live on higher ground the water just washed across the dirt and carried wheelbarrows of soil into the street.

Sheet mulching cannot be completed without wood chips unless if you want to use lots of straw which I found attracts rats where they build their nests and raise their young. Over the course of the sheet mulching project Coates Tree Service delivered 6 truckloads of wood chips (from trees, bushes, etc. pruned in the neighborhood) for only $60 each load of 12 cu. yards. I hand wheelbarrowed the chips to cover the cardboard and natural fiber cloth. Since there was time between truckloads, I could enjoy forays to Plants of the Southwest to choose the plants I wanted in the area completely mulched. These plants were watered with filtered water. Since we have a “whole house water filtration system” the plants did not get poisonous chlorine or fluoride.

PLANTING

 "Be a gardener.” 

Create water catchments

 Feed the soil of Mother Earth.

Choose edible as well as indigenous plants

“. . . . water the plants in time.

Continue this labor . . . .”

 for “abundant fruits”

and vegetables”

and berries 

“to spring. . . ."

for the enjoyment of all creatures.

Julian of Norwich

and modified by

Cathie Haynes

"An addiction to gardening 

is not all bad 

when you consider 

the other choices in life."

Cora Lea Bell

As I honored my "addiction to gardening" and exhausted myself in creating a garden full of vegetation that grows in the Pinon Pine/Juniper Forest in which Santa Fe, New Mexico, is located. This area is located in a high mountainous desert. I knew almost nothing about the native plants of this area so I set out to educate myself through reading and attending some lectures. I also met a delightful employee, Bramble, at Plants of the Southwest who added his knowledge and expertise. The owner, Gail Haggard, while finding me plants I coveted to augment my native habitat, taught me lovingly about growing natives here in the desert.

Netleaf Hackberry (Celtis reticulata) 
was one of those finds.
I wanted this native tree for the berries
. . . for the birds to eat.

When I became acutely aware of the water shortage in the high desert, we had a consultation with San Isidro Permaculture about conserving water here in Santa Fe. Once we decided what we wanted they returned to give us a bid for installation of water tanks. They were very helpful in determining the flow of water from the “flat” roof to the various downspouts. So one was placed in the front of the house and another slim one resides along the North side of the house.

Once each of these 500 gallon tanks were installed I breathed easier having water available without taxing the water system of Santa Fe.

This tank is positioned 
in the front of the house.

This "skinny" tank sits along the side of the house.
This tank is quickly emptied
watering the vegetables during the growing season.

So now the permanent back garden is planted with fruit trees, flowering and berry bushes as well as pollinator friendly plants and native grasses. 

In the holes of the uncovered raised beds are many parsley plants. Parsley is one of the  host plants for Black Swallowtail caterpillars. Alas, I did not find any eggs this Summer past.

Here I might add purchased plants were in the smallest containers available. The reason for this is that the plants transplant easier and in the long run are healthier. The Agricultural School at the University of California in Davis did a study and determined the size of the pot in which plants are purchased makes a difference. So in that vein the pots for the grasses and flowering plants were 2” and the trees were in 1 gallon pots. So you see, big is not always better.

In the front and side yard some thirteen trees including a white fruiting mulberry tree have been planted. Oh my gosh, the house will have abundant shade . . . eventually. What a contrast to when we purchased this home and property . . . only a Pinon Pine, which you can see in the wintery picture opening this post, along the front sidewalk existed. Well, the professional landscaper/part owner planted three aspen trees in the West of the front yard. Aspen trees grow along stream beds naturally, not in Santa Fe, New Mexico, although one sees them driving about the city here. These along with all the plants originally planted by this professional landscaper were removed and new homes were found for them. 

There are also two different “milkweed” plants along the sidewalk that curves around the front of the house. These were planted as host food for the Monarch caterpillars. Last Summer I saw a Monarch on one of the plants but alas no eggs appeared.

Antelope Horn Milkweed (Asclepias asperula)

LEAVING

Before the renovation of our Stamm home and property, one of our neighbors who is sad to to see us leave, says this place "has not had a good life." And she has repeatedly commented on all the "hard work" I have done on the property's grounds; now providing this place with a "good life".

The wintery scene
from the front door 
looking out onto
San Felipe Circle.
that I am looking at as I write . . .

So I leave a backyard filled with food bearing vegetation that is barely evident during the wintry season depicts above. The front and side yards heralding an all native habitat with trees, bushes and flowering perennials. Hopefully the next owners of 1832 San Felipe Circle will thoroughly enjoy the results of my labor of love. Might they also continue to add to the burgeoning plant life enhancing all BEings who come to this place either seasonally or year around. Periodically adding wood chips would also help tremendously in feeding the soil and sequestering carbon. While the new owners continue "the good life" for 1832 San Felipe Circle may they enjoy the process and

 

2021 Plant List

NATIVE 

GRASS

Alkali Sacaton (Sporobolus airoides)

Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)

Bush Muhly (Muhlenbergia porteri)

Grama (Boutelous)

Blue (B. gracilis)

Sideoats (B. curtipendula)

Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans)

Indian Ricegrass (Achnatherum hymenoides

Junegrass (Koeleria macrantha)

Sacaton (Sporobolus)

Alkali Sacaton (S. airoides)

Giant (S. wrightii)

Sand Lovegrass (Eragrostis trichodes)

PERENNIAL

Beargrass (Nolina microcarpa)

Blanket flower (Gaillardia aristata, ‘Goblin’)

Bladder pod (Lesquerella species)

Cactus 

Claret Cup (Echinocereus triglochidiatus)

Prickly Pear (Opuntia phaeacantha) 

Fendler’s  Hedgehog (Echinocereus fendleri (Englemann)

Columbine (Aquilegia)

Rocky Mountain Columbine (A. caerulea)

Yellow or Golden Columbine (A. chrysantha)

Cota, Greenthread (Thelesperma megapotamicum)

Chocolate Daisy/Flower (Berlandiera lyrata)

Desert Four O’Clock (Mirabilis multiflora)

Desert Marigold (Baileya multiradiata)

Sundrops (Calylophus) 

Dwarf (C. serrulutus)

Fendler’s (C. hartwegii fendleri)

Fringed Sage (Artemisia frigida)

Gayfeather (Liatris punctata)

Mexican Hat or Upright Prairie Coneflower (Ratibida columnifera)

both mahogany and yellow colors

Milkweed (Asclepias)

Antelope Horn Milkweed (A. asperula)

Showy Milkweed (A. speciosa)

Mormon Tea, NV (Ephedra nevadensis)

Paperflower (Psilostrophe tagetina)

Penstemon

Desert Beardtongue (P. pseudospectabilis)

        James (P. jamesii)

Pink Wild Snapdragon (P. palmeri)

Rocky Mountain (P. strictus)

Scarlet Bugler (Penstemon barbatus)

Pink Nodding Onion (Allium cernuum)

Prairie Zinnia (Zinnia grandiflora)

Primrose (Oenothera)

Missouri Evening (O. macrocarpa)

White Tufted Evening Primrose (O. caespitosa)

My very favorite native plant!
Hawkmoth sips the nectar at nighttime.

Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea purpurea)

Threadleaf Groundsel (Senecio longilobus)

Western Wallflower ( Erysimum capitatium)

White Heath Aster (Symphyotrichum ericoides)

Wild Buckwheat (Eriogonum wrightii)

Wild Hyssop (Agastache cana)

SHRUB

Apache Plume (Fallugia paradoxa)

Chamisa/Rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus nauseosus)

Four Wing Saltbush (Atriplex canescens)

Desert Holly( Mahonia fremontii)

Lead Plant (Amorpha canescens)

My most favorite native shrub
since I saw it flowering along the
Santa Fe River.

Mountain Mahogany (Cercocarpus)

Alder leaf (C. montanus)

Curl leaf (C. ledifolius)

Little leaf (C. intricatus)

Sage (Artemisia)

Fringed Sage (A. frigida)

Big Sage (A. tridentata)

Silver Sage (A. cana)

Santa Fe Cholla (Opuntia viridiflora)

The  Curved Bill Thrasher makes their nests
in these pricey plants

Serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia)

Flowering

With berries

Three Leaf Sumac (Rhus trilobata) 

Woods’ Rose (Rosa woodsii)

Yucca

Broadleaf, by local Tewa called “Banana Yucca” (Y. baccata)

Narrowleaf or Soapweed (Y. glauca) 

TREE

Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis ‘Bubba’ & native colored flower)

Gambel Oak (Quercus gambelii)

Netleaf Hackberry (Celtis reticulata)

New Mexico Locust (Robinia neomexicana)

New Mexico Privet (Forestieta neomexicana 

One Seed Juniper (Juniperus monosperma)

Prunus

Chokecherry (P. virginiana)

Flowering

Fall color

Wild Plum (P. americana)

Pinon Pine (Pinus edulis)

VINE

Virgin’s Bower (Clematis ligusticifolia)

NONNATIVE

BERRIES

Prince Ark Freedom Blackberry

Allstar Strawberry

Heritage Raspberry

EDIBLE

Glaskins Perpetual Rhubarb

HERB

Annual

Chervil

Cilantro

Summer Savory

Perennial

Dandelion

Italian ‘Gigante’ Flat leaf Parsley

Lovage

Oregano (Origanum vulgare)

Rosemary ‘Arp’ (Rosemarinus officinalis)

Sage

Berggarten

Common

Tricolor

Tarragon

Thyme

PERENNIAL

Asparagus ‘Jersey Knight’

Comfrey, True (Symphytum officinalis)

Lavender (Lavandula)

L. angustitolia ‘Buena Vista’ #2)

Provence Lavender (L. x intermedia ‘Provence’ #1)

(Lavandula x intermedia ‘Grosso’)

Lovage

Coneflower (Echinacea)

Narrow leaved (E. angustifolia) 

Purple (E. purpura)

Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis ssp. aristatus)

Greek Oregano

Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis)

Rosemary “Arp”

Tansy

Yarrow (Achillea millefoloum)

All of the following items were purchased from the above location in Truchas, New Mexico

VINE

Grape

Himrod (white)

Saint Theresa (red)

SHRUB 

Elderberry

Nova

York

TREE

Apple

Esopus Spitzenburg

Westfield Seek No Further

Thornberry 

Apricot

Hargrande

Harogem

With Spring flowers

Peach

Reliance

Plum

Green Gage

Russian Mulberry (Morus alba tatarica) - white fruit