They say never look back

[Yunder Wækraus]

They say you should never look back, but I couldn’t help myself. Google finally updated its street view images. Last year, the images showed the two US homes we once owned as they were prior to our living there, and now the images show them as they are after we moved out. I’m pleased to see that the gardens I put into our CA yard, where we lived from 2012-2015, and the one I put in our FL yard, where we lived 2015-2018, are largely intact and growing. Not one plant at either property predated my ownership. I’ve also included pix of the house we’ve been renting for two years. I don’t get the fun of planting and owning my garden here, but at least it is pleasantly palmy :-)

[Silas_Sancona]

14 minutes ago, Yunder Wækraus said:

They say you should never look back, but I couldn’t help myself. Google finally updated its street view images. Last year, the images showed the two US homes we once owned as they were prior to our living there, and now the images show them as they are after we moved out. I’m pleased to see that the gardens I put into our CA yard, where we lived from 2012-2015, and the one I put in our FL yard, where we lived 2015-2018, are largely intact and growing. Not one plant at either property predated my ownership. I’ve also included pix of the house we’ve been renting for two years. I don’t get the fun of planting and owning my garden here, but at least it is pleasantly palmy :-)

For a moment i looked at the first few pics and thought .."What?, a Coconut in Nor Cal?, lol..   then realized that's where you'd lived in FL.  Looks like everything has grown a bit since you left. 

Yard where your at now looks pretty good as well. With the hill behind the Foxtail ( in the first pic at your current residence ) almost looks like you could have taken that pic somewhere in California as well. Second pic w/ the Lipstick makes it obvious you're not anywhere near CA. though ( unless you'd found a super frost hardy form of Cyrtostachys renda that no one else knows of.. )

[Yunder Wækraus]

If you look closely, you’ll see a bend in my old FL coconut. It was almost killed by hurricane Matthew not long after I planted it, and I decided not to stake it back up and let nature take its course. Glad the new owners kept it, but heartbroken that the pulled out my Everglades palms and pseudophoenix sargentii 

[sonoranfans]

Could be worse, the owner of my former house removed half the palms, gutted.  I felt a loss for a year or two, but my new(9yrs old "new") garden helps me forget.  You are right: "Don't look back".

[Yunder Wækraus]

3 hours ago, sonoranfans said:

Could be worse, the owner of my former house removed half the palms, gutted.  I felt a loss for a year or two, but my new(9yrs old "new") garden helps me forget.  You are right: "Don't look back".

Bummer :-(