Even though I'm still recuperating and not out and about yet, I still wanted to post a Photopost this week. My subject is the flora and gardens around our mobile home park. I take frequent walks around the park as physical therapy and brought along my camera this afternoon. Here are some examples of Summer in SoCal.
Pink puffballs of a hydrangea plant in full bloom. (This was shot in the corner of a mobile home for sale for only $69,000.00 with more room than I have, and the place is on a corner lot surrounded by plants and flowers, with a porch. When on the porch, it seems as if you're in a private park. If only this one is still available if I ever have enough money to move up!)
A single rose rises above the bed.
I'm not sure what this is, but it was pretty, silhouetted against the roof of a modern double wide.
Whomever lives here has a garden which is almost swallowing the home.
This is a close up of the garden above. I took a few more photos in order to capture all the foliage. This is on the main road along the front of the park and is pretty impressive when driving by.
I believe this is the only triple wide home we have in the park. Not a lot of space for a garden, but they did pretty well. I like the brush in front of the windows too. They might be rose bushes but from the photo I can't tell and can't remember.
Some of the tenants place animal, gnome, and dwarf statues and figurines in their displays. Here a hippo is barking at a squirrel and a panda is sitting amongst the begonias.
I like the little picket fence they have on the lot in back and the pink roses in the foreground.
Here is a shot looking up from a hydrangea toward a rose bush in a front view of the back house shown above. Neat little parrot on the porch.
Not sure what the strange orange flowers are called. I shot this to show another mobile home I really like. It doesn't look at all like a mobile home at first, and I like the front door and porch in the front instead of to the side like on most mobile homes. This one is occupied and not for sale.
Some neat yellow roses.
A multicolored rose blossom. (I have a photo with a bee in the bloom but the photo is less pleasing than this view.)
This gal has a corner home with a really relaxing sit down garden. Although not shown in this photo, there are lots of statuary and figurines around this lot.
Here a plaster gnome is carting around some shiny trinkets.
I have no idea what the significance is of hanging cds on a plum tree, but these folks must have an idea.
This lot wasn't really kept up,but that adds to the mystique of the garden, with these plaster beach birds.
Here's a shot of a hibiscus in full flower fronted by a lamplight.
I like the multiple geranium baskets along the side of the patio on this home. I'm really sad I don't have a patio. This also shows our mailboxes. Each home has it's own mailbox, and the light fixtures act as the street lights at night.
This home doesn't have a garden, but for some reason I'm impressed with this older mobile home since it's a rare single wide in our park, which I think only has three of them.
Because of the time of year, there are plenty old glorys flying about like this one behind a planter.
What feature with photos in a senior mobile home park wouldn't include a plastic flamingo or two. This is the front of my neighbor's home. EDIT: 7/11 7:32am pdt: Just uploaded the last three photos to the Xanga server, so this entry should load a lot faster. When Xanga wouldn't let me upload photos, I used the versions on my own website server, but had uploaded the full 3MB (3072x2304) images! They're now sized at a more respectable 800x600. MFN/ppf
Even though I'm still recuperating and not out and about yet, I still wanted to post a Photopost this week. My subject is the flora and gardens around our mobile home park. I take frequent walks around the park as physical therapy and brought along my camera this afternoon. Here are some examples of Summer in SoCal.
Pink puffballs of a hydrangea plant in full bloom. (This was shot in the corner of a mobile home for sale for only $69,000.00 with more room than I have, and the place is on a corner lot surrounded by plants and flowers, with a porch. When on the porch, it seems as if you're in a private park. If only this one is still available if I ever have enough money to move up!)
A single rose rises above the bed.
I'm not sure what this is, but it was pretty, silhouetted against the roof of a modern double wide.
Whomever lives here has a garden which is almost swallowing the home.
This is a close up of the garden above. I took a few more photos in order to capture all the foliage. This is on the main road along the front of the park and is pretty impressive when driving by.
I believe this is the only triple wide home we have in the park. Not a lot of space for a garden, but they did pretty well. I like the brush in front of the windows too. They might be rose bushes but from the photo I can't tell and can't remember.
Some of the tenants place animal, gnome, and dwarf statues and figurines in their displays. Here a hippo is barking at a squirrel and a panda is sitting amongst the begonias.
I like the little picket fence they have on the lot in back and the pink roses in the foreground.
Here is a shot looking up from a hydrangea toward a rose bush in a front view of the back house shown above. Neat little parrot on the porch.
Not sure what the strange orange flowers are called. I shot this to show another mobile home I really like. It doesn't look at all like a mobile home at first, and I like the front door and porch in the front instead of to the side like on most mobile homes. This one is occupied and not for sale.
Some neat yellow roses.
A multicolored rose blossom. (I have a photo with a bee in the bloom but the photo is less pleasing than this view.)
This gal has a corner home with a really relaxing sit down garden. Although not shown in this photo, there are lots of statuary and figurines around this lot.
Here a plaster gnome is carting around some shiny trinkets.
I have no idea what the significance is of hanging cds on a plum tree, but these folks must have an idea.
This lot wasn't really kept up,but that adds to the mystique of the garden, with these plaster beach birds.
Here's a shot of a hibiscus in full flower fronted by a lamplight.
I like the multiple geranium baskets along the side of the patio on this home. I'm really sad I don't have a patio. This also shows our mailboxes. Each home has it's own mailbox, and the light fixtures act as the street lights at night.
This home doesn't have a garden, but for some reason I'm impressed with this older mobile home since it's a rare single wide in our park, which I think only has three of them.
Because of the time of year, there are plenty old glorys flying about like this one behind a planter.
What feature with photos in a senior mobile home park wouldn't include a plastic flamingo or two. This is the front of my neighbor's home. EDIT: 7/11 7:32am pdt: Just uploaded the last three photos to the Xanga server, so this entry should load a lot faster. When Xanga wouldn't let me upload photos, I used the versions on my own website server, but had uploaded the full 3MB (3072x2304) images! They're now sized at a more respectable 800x600. MFN/ppf
Comments (55)
I like the flowers. You actually live in a very beautiful neighborhood. No one seems to upkeep their trailors around here. But all your neighbors seem to have some type of landscaping skeme gong on. i have never seen a rose like the red and white one you showed. very pretty!
Very nice! I must say, that is one good looking trailer park! It seems everyone is very proud of their homes, I love how some of them don't really look like trailers at all! I wish I lived somewhere with that many colorful flowers!
the first flowers -my grandparents had in Rosemead.
Your park is just wonderful with flowers and give yourself a chance -you just moved in.
Now that is what summer all about - glorious sunshine, blooming flowers, cute figurines and gnomes hiding in flowerbeds!
When there is a breeze, the fluttering of the shiny CD's is supposed to scare the birds away--keep them from pecking and eating the fruit. Don't know how well it works, though. California has such a wonderful climate for growing so many gorgeous and lush plants and flowers, and your park is no exception. My folks park in AZ did not allow grass, so there were more desert gardens, although it had it's share of tropical plantings, too----especially bouganvillea and honeysuckle. Not roses---gets too hot. And they had their share of "ornaments" such as gnomes and LOTS of roadrunner and mexican-type decorations.
Oh someone got to the answer before I did, lol. The cd's are thought to flash as they rotate in the breeze, and scare off greedy birds. Am going to have my brother try it in his apricot tree next year. However, the worst thieves are the squirrels, and nothing much really scares these ballsy creatures.
When did we all get old enough to sit around chatting about our joint replacements? And living in senior housing? Doesn't it seem just a tad unlikely? In my head I will always be twirling at the Grateful Dead concert...
Enjoy your new home and get well soon!
Sandy
Nice photos! Like the little gnome. Good to see you out and about, and seem to be having a much better week. :coolman:
This was a sight for sore eyes
love california or hate it, it is the gardener's dream...you throw stuff on a rock and spit on it and it will grow for ya....
What a lovely walk through the neigborhood. Like always I do like your photoblogs the most of all your entries. This time it felt as if I am truly their to see it all for myself. Thank you for looking into all the corners for us. The mobile homes look pretty fixed to me
You guys can grow way better flowers on the West Coast than we can on the East Coast. Beautiful!
It seems like many of these so-called mobile homes have only been mobile once in their lifetime, for the trip from the factory to the mobile home community, and I have a feeling they may never be moved again...
nice photos, thanks for posting. We will be moving this summer so I love looking at yards/flowers....I haven't had a yard before or the chance to grow flowers/plants. We will be up north in Bellingham so I am researching what grows best up there.
@StandUp2Life - Dear Beth, These days, the common term is "manufactured housing" and never a "trailer". We've a mix of older and newer homes. I live in a 1972 Skyline "Buddy" home at 840 sq. ft.
@mimiwi - Dear Nancy, Thanks for the explanation of the cds. I almost knocked on the door to ask why the tree was covered in them. I've seen parks in New Mexico where there are no lawns. Most folks in our park have more rock beds than grass yards. And almost all the gardens are cared for by "professionals" and not by the homeowners themselves.
@Rouxlette_Wheel - Dear Sandy, Believe it or not, I've just had my second hip replacement! I planned to move into this park (or the more expensive one up on the hill) for five years, beginning when I turned 50, and was too young to move here!
@Zeal4living - Dear Jurgens, Double and triple wide mobile homes are usually only mobile once, when they roll out of the factory and into the mobile home park. We have two bare lots now, (one because of a fire, which was pretty devastating). Usually, the manufacturer of the home will erect a "model home" and pay the space rent until it's sold.
@TheCheshireGrins - Dear Meg, In California there are not distinct "seasons" so we have blooms pretty much all the time. Roses bloom in winter, and plants that are supposed to bloom in the fall will bloom in the summer. Things really get interesting after a rainy season! But I'd like to experience the "turning of the seasons" at some time. Spring on the east is more special than spring in SoCal.
@CdllcEnthus - Dear Gabriel, You're right. Double and triple wide homes are mobile only from the factory to the park. I've had to go underneath mine (before my surgery, natch) and the hitches, axles and wheels (sans tires) are still in place. My home was installed in 1972, right after they built the park. Some of these monsters have cathedral ceilings and have up to 2000 square foot of space. When a new "manufactured home" is set in place, the wheels and axles are totally removed, and the home will probably never be moved again.
Looks like maybe they used cd's to reflect the light and keep the birds away from the fruit.
:sunny: :sunny: :sunny: actually that plaster gnome has an uncanny resemblance to this certain mike character i know. also the way it's holding out goodies for all to purvey . . .
These are beautiful!
:wave: Those are fantastic shots. There are so many beautiful flowers and foliage. I love the ceramics, too.
Kudos to your neighbors for beautifying their surroundings. The homes look well kept, too.
I've tried to add some flora to the front of my apartment. Right now, I have some green plants in rectangular ceramic pots with a "lonely little petunia " between. However, for a patch of ground around the front bush, I had put in faux flowers from Dollar Tree. They looked pretty good from a distance. Then one day, I noticed that someone had pulled up all the flowers, but left a fake leafy plant. My neighbors think it was kids and so do I. I just went back to Dollar Tree and got a few to replace, but not as many as I had before.
I hope you're continuting to do well with recuperating.
~~Blessings, prayers 'n cheers
I totally want to live in your park! It's beautiful! And I don't hear my chattering five year old in it.
I love seeing all the landscaping in your park. The plants are so lush and exotic. It reminds me a lot of the place we lived in for six years. We had nice streets and sidewalks and streetlights and even the brand-new lots were started out with a bush and a tree. We didn't have our own mailboxes, though. We had to pick up our mail from a central location where we all had little boxes. People can have such a negetive image of mobile homes, and I think pictures like these prove otherwise! Are you going to do more landscaping when you recover? Do you have space for a little patio?
Did you go back to work again or are you going to use more recovery time? Hope you are doing well!
@baldmike2004 -
Oh goodness! I wasn't aware! I apologize, I've only ever head them referred to as "trailers" and "trailer parks." That, however, tends to give a negative, typically trashy connotation to it, for some reason. I'm glad to know the correct terms now!
Wow, that is much more beautiful than the RV parks I got aquainted with when I was moving around with my ex (the musician) who had this RV. I suppose it's because these homes are more permanent and not on wheels...or it could be the state...but I've looked at the RV parks in several different states and nothing is as well kept up as this. This is almost like, beyond pristine.
What a beautiful mobile home park; I've never seen one that lovely before! Here in Tennessee they're all mostly rundown and delapitated although there are some nice ones if you know where to look. The flowers are absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!
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