Invasive Sabal Palm

Recently, I trimmed away a few fronds from a neighbor's Sabal palm that were hanging over the property line and rubbing against our greenhouse. Today, I heard on Fox 13 News Tampa that Sabal palm are considered Florida state tree and are therefore protected.
 

However, that is not the full story. Below is what the State of Florida has to say about Sabal palm and all other trees in the states.

Sabal Palm:

They are greatly valued as ornamental trees both for home and industrial landscaping. Most nurseries sell them in various sizes and shapes, deliver them, and set them in place. Although the swamp cabbage tree grows wild, it is protected from indiscriminate cutting by its designation as Florida's state tree.

Regarding necessarily cutting and trimming:

The adjoining landowner may, at his or her own expense, trim back the branches or roots as he or she desires up to the property line. If the branches are dead, however, then the landowner with the tree located on his or her property may be responsible, and could be liable for damages caused by the branches. 1 Fla. Jur.

So neighbor, don't be mad. Be glad that I saved you $600 to $1000 bucks.

Handbook of Florida Fence and Property Law: Trees and Landowner Responsibility

I hope this help any landowner with a troublesome tree belonging to a neighbor.

An Amazon's Asurion Scammer is on the Loose

 There is a problem within Amazon and those in charge need to clean it up. Here is a copy of a letter stating to be from Asurion, the Amazon product protection center. To the best of my knowledge, Asurion never sends letters requesting additional information from customers via the United States Postal Service (USPS). If this should happen, report it to Amazon. Should it continue to happen report it to the police department,  and if necessary the Office of the Attorney General fraud and scam departments within your state.
We received this letter yesterday. It is the second letter we have received. The one was shredded, but because the sender is trying again, it warrant posting to warn consumers of this scam. Fortunately, we do not have an active claim, and neither would we provide the  requested information via a letter from the mail. 

 

In addition, shred everything that contains invoice numbers, account numbers, bank and medical statements, and all other private information that scammers and con artists should not obtain. Never put this type of information in the recycle bin. Furthermore, remove, blackout and/or redact your names and addresses from shipping labels before recycling the boxes and envelopes received with the products you bought online. Unfortunately, we failed to do this part all the time and trusted that no one would search the recycle bins for information . I am not saying this is why we got this letter. I am saying that every bit of precaution helps protect you. 

Be watchful of scammers, con artists, thugs knocking on your door, harassing and attempting to threaten you on the street, and acting as if they are going to attack to get you in a position to scam you and/or do other harm. These con artists will also lie to your neighbors and businesses you frequent. They will attempt to destroy your life to gain they illegal profits in an act of revenge because you protected yourself by reporting them. We and you have every right to protect ourselves from these malicious con artists.

Finally, this world is changing rapidly, and not all of it for the better, so be watchful there is always the possibility of a scammer, con artist or thief  living among you, manipulating you and your neighbors, but not for your protection but for their gain. If you find this post helpful and you have been threaten or scammed in some way, protect yourselves. Call the police department.

Evelyn’s Patio Furniture Makeover: Greenhouse Vandalism

When I went out to put my greenhouse back up, on close inspection, I discovered that it had been vandalized, and the major damages was not caused by the high winds and rains as I thought and as I written in my last post because the canopy was off. Someone had broken many of the joints couplings . The criminal(s) that did the damage discovered last year during an active hurricane season that bypassed us, like this hurricane did, that when he/she tried to uproot the greenhouse that it was firmly secured to the ground, and the damages was done to the canopy. Therefore, this year the criminal(s) broke many of the joints couplings that held the metal rods of the greenhouse frame together.

However, because the criminal(s)  has damage this greenhouse two previous time and each under the cover of a hurricane that never came our way, we where prepared them. The video below explains more as well as the photos.

 

They struck Again! Thieves!

Off and on for a few years, I have notices young women, usually two at a time, lingerings our patch of the avenue, and not really understanding why they would lingering. Then after losing a few packages or having them tamper with.we put out secondary security camera in that area, and the women stopped coming around. Recently, these delivery problems began again, and two  Fordecore Patio Recliner Cushions  were stolen. According the Amazon driver, the cushions were handed to someone posing as me (the owner of the cushions). Now, we happened because stopped placing that secondary camera  out to watch the front of our avenue. There is already a camera to watch our porch where packages are left, and these crafty thieves know that it there. However, since we had not had problem with these female thieves in a while, we stopped adding the secondary camera to watch the walk and highway where the delivery drivers sometimes park to make their deliveries. 

These two stolen  Fordecore Patio Recliner Cushions are very beautiful, and rare. They came all the way from China, so the theft of them is that much more irksome; however, in this case, we have suspects.

Below is a picture of what the two Fordecore Patio Recliner Cushions actually looks like.

As stated above we have suspects, we want them to know that we will be watching them. Their theft has been reported. In addition, we have reordered them.

Trespassers Destroying Garden Plants

My garden plants are victims of trespassers, who have fallen in with some really bad people and instead admitting they were wrong, and make of mends before thing got to this point, they now are trying to hide the fact they made a huge mistake and are now bullying us and destroying my plants.

Below are pictures the some of the damaged plants, others were so badly damaged by some kind of unknown caustic liquid poured on them that I threw them away. These plants have been through many winters and also the few coldest ones we have had in recent years; not just at this house.  I bring them with us wherever we live. However, first and because the trespassers have lied and attempted to put my experience with the care of plants into question, check out my indoor and outdoor gardening books. I have been collecting and studying from these books as well as the internet sources since 1975. While I am no professional, I have learned much about all the plants in my indoor and outdoor gardens, including how to protect them from harsh cold weather and extreme hot weather as well.

I trimmed back some of the damage on a few of the plants. One of the troublemakers also went into my greenhouse and destroyed most my herbs, mint, a newly transplanted Chicago fig sapling. I knew the moment that I went to undo the clamps on the greenhouse door that the troublemaker had been in it, because they couldn’t reseal the door correctly. 

Before and very healthy:

 A film from 2021. I just recently moved many of the damaged plants pictured here out to the drive.

Afterwards:

Surviving sapling from another attack. A cutting from the same one above.

 

My husband and I are victims of discrimination and the troublemakers keep lying to the police, and others we do business with regularly.