Gardener in Chacala Mexico

Hi I am Erik Ordway, Andee's son. This Sunday Andee passed away, most likely from a stroke. There, the easy part is over. I sent this out as an email this on Monday after I personally notified t...

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A few weeks ago I took the collectivo from Chacala out to the Crucero de Chacala. The Crucero is the place where the Chacala road meets the main north/south highway to Tepic and to Guadalajara. ...

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I don't know why the areas of deep vegetation around Chacala are called the "jungle". Well, it doesn't seem like "the woods", or the "forest", so maybe it's a good name. Chacala is surrounded by...

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I have hardly been blogging about my Chacala garden. Mainly because I was waiting for my replacement computer. Without it I have been spending time there. I am really pleased with how things are...

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I just added a couple of photos to this post. My Chacala garden has three of these plants growing in it. They are growing bigger everyday, and are about 4 feet across and four feet high, not co...

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Yesterday morning I walked over to the home of one of my favorite landladies in Chacala. I love the new palapa and grass turf at Mirador. The palapa, and two of the unit units overlook the ocean...

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Here is a hibiscus cutting and four Kalanchoes and three Aloe Veras are sharing a space. Probably not a good plan. I have been gardening in this space where I live in Chacala for about eight o...

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I often sit on the sand of Playa Chacala early in the morning. I love to watch the sunlight move across the water toward me. I usually remember how grateful I am that I live in such a beautiful ...

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This is a piece of thread art created by a Huitchol Indian, who live in Nayarit and Jalisco. They were being sold at the market today. I left Chacala early this morning. I went to the street ...

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Here is one of a about 8 Kalanchoe plants, from last spring. I guess these are blossoms. The little gobules are empty, mostly. A few seem to have seeds. When I woke up this morning, I wasn't th...

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I woke up this morning, to another glorious Chacala day. It ended up the high was in the mid-80'sF. Clear and sunny with a light breeze. Cloudy in the late afternoon. I decided it was a good da...

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For a short time Chacala was one of the earliest port on the central Pacific coast of Mexico to be used for unloading freight from ships arriving from Spain and the East. The freight was hauled ...

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Aurora is my next-door neighbor in Chacala. She was my first landlady, and is wonderful friend. This is a photo of one of her rentals, the one over her home. She and her wonderful husband, Beto,...

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When I first started blogging I had just one blog, My Life in Chacala . A few months later I added a Chacala Vacation Rentals blog, and then finally, after a year or so, I added this blog. At t...

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If I think of the one plant that really stands out in the Chacala landscape, it would be the Palm. They are everywhere, and they are used for everything. Except toilet paper, probably. You can ...

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This post's title, "Gardening with Magazines", refers to reading gardening magazines, not mulching with them. San Miguel de Allende I just read one of the more interesting garden blogs, Garden R...

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As a gardener craving information about how to garden in Chacala Mexico, I was interested to read a Post on one of the gardening blogs about annoying and useless beginner gardening books. My ga...

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This afternoon, after it started to cool off, I walked around town, doing some errands. I almost always have my camera with me, and today I was especially glad of that. Lot's of kids wanted to p...

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I got some starts from a succulent from a Chacala neighbor a couple of years ago.Now I have hundreds of them By accident. I don't know what it's called, and my best sources of info on succulents...

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I don't think I had ever heard much about the"Day of the Dead" until I came to Chacala. It's not celebrated here as a tourist event or some kind of spectacle event, like in Patzcuaro and other Me...

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One of my favorite things about gardening in Chacala is that I can grow succulents year-round here. Some of them go semi-dormant during the rainy season. Like my favorite, Adenium Obesum. But th...

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I planted this Bouganvillea late last March I think. It was a one-gallon plant. 1.80US. It's now about 10 feet tall, and growing about six inches a day. And it has it's first blossoms. I never ...

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The stores in Chacala, and all over Mexico, are filled with hand-made flowers this week. Families are preparing for the two Days of the Dead. One to honor adults and the other two honor children...

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The two papaya trees in front of the house where I live are growing really quickly. They bear fruit year around in Chacala, and all over in this part of Mexico. I don't know if that's normal or ...

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These cacti are just ordinary photos that I took this summer at the Oaxaca Ethno-botanical Garden. If you want to see some really good photos of plants in Oaxaca, go to Mundo en Flor . This is...

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