Me and Mr. Bee http://tinavaziri.com/blog Magic, illustration, gardening, and bees. The blog of freelance Austin, TX illustrator Tina Poe. Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:57:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 moving the blog http://tinavaziri.com/blog/moving-the-blog/ http://tinavaziri.com/blog/moving-the-blog/#comments Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:57:10 +0000 Tina Poe Illustration http://tinavaziri.com/blog/?p=798 Related posts:
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]]> I’m sorry if you have been seeing crazy RSS feed action, but I’m moving my blog to tinapoe.com/blog. I can finally stop using tinavaziri.com and only keep it around for the redirects.

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As soon as everything is up and running, all posts here will redirect to the new url and you’ll see new blog posts going up at the new url. I look forward to seeing you there!


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I am a big dumb oaf. In April, I was attempting to tie up my only two tomatoes (sweet cherry, and green zebra) to the stakes in the earthbox, and I managed to snap the sweet cherry’s main stem off… There went my first 5 cherry tomatoes.

I planted sweet basil, persian basil, catnip, and lemon balm seeds. They germinated and grew well, until they started disappearing. Over Twitter, Daphne Richards from Central Texas Gardener suggested that I use BT, because it could have been caterpillars eating the seedlings.

I also planted giant white moonflower vine and “pearly gates” morning glory seeds. I thought the whites would look good together, and blend nicely with the violet morning glory volunteers that are going to be spreading more every year if I don’t stop pulling them.


Mistakenly, I only planted one bronze fennel, let’s see how long he lasts before he gets eaten up completely.

One of my favorite things to do, is to look down on the garden from my second story master bedroom window. It’s a good way for me to look at the whole composition. I took some photos of the developing design from above.



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In the first week of March, this year, I went out and got two new tomatoes (sweet cherry and green zebra) to put in my Earthbox. Around that time, I also picked up a bronze fennel, and a meyer lemon tree that was full of blooms and several fruit. My dream was to be overflowing with lemons at any given time of the year.

I’ve been taking photos of the garden regularly, and I’ll try to blog about all of them in order. It’ll be helpful to me, keeping track and being organized, while allowing me to go back and compare how things have failed or flourished.



I planted 3 small Mexican feather grass, one of which died promptly. I potted up the Meyer lemon so that I could move him in during the winter. It was covered in fragrant blooms and several baby lemons when I purchased it, but I wasn’t gentle enough when repotting because he dropped all blooms, the fruit, and a large percentage of leaves. It took several weeks of me worrying before new leaves start growing again.

Nothing had quite woken up yet, in the garden, so it was time to get to work. Inspired by garden design portfolios I found online, and with all of the free/found rocks that I had gathered over time (minus the one bag or two of marble chips that I bought), I started creating more shapes and structure to the garden. I picked up some elfin thyme to put between the flat stones (some died, one piece lived, need to keep trying).




The garden bees that I created out of bowling balls were happy, placed in their new surroundings. I added some lanterns on shepherd’s hooks for height. The Buddha statues sits on top of the birdbath now, the birdbath that had developed a crack and I never saw any birds using it, even when there was any water in there. I picked up two lovely Buddha busts and placed them around the herbs, for now.



Whenever I drag David to the nurseries with me I feel guilty and encourage him to pick out some plants that he thinks look interesting. He usually only likes succulents or things he can eat. But this time, he picked out two ‘Blackie’ Sweet Potato Vine, that we put up on the fence. They look great and have already put out violet flowers. Speaking of things to eat, the mint that I got back in 2008 looked pitiful, unrecognizable, and smelled bland. I was afraid to really taste it, worried that there was something horribly wrong with it. Or what if another plant had started to grow in that same spot. Once upon a time I had dreams of being able to use tons of fresh and dried mint in the kitchen… I bought another plant and placed it in a large pot, hoping that it will do better this time. Also not doing great, the catnip that I placed in the same sized pot as the new mint. I haven’t figured out what I’m doing wrong.





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I finished these over the winter, but I was waiting until spring so that I could take photos of the bees enjoying the garden.

If you remember when we left off last time, I had just finished creating the time-consuming wings. I then laid out all of my finished parts, the painted bowling balls, both sets of finished wings, and the finished antenna.

One bee at a time, I filled the antenna (thumb) hole with with silicone caulk. I tried using liquid nail at first, but this did not dry. I placed and positioned both antenna in the hole.

Without disturbing the antenna, I filled the wing (finger) holes with silicone caulk. The window screen wings went in first, because I liked the way the hardware cloth looked on top of them. The hardware cloth wings went in second. I made sure to clean off any excess caulk. Everything still needed to dry, so I used masking tape to hold all of the parts in place, in the exact positions that I wanted them to be in.

The only thing left was waiting patiently for everything to dry. As an extra step, I took some of the leftover paint and painted the dried caulk to blend in a little better. The bees were ready to go live out in the garden, and I still enjoy looking at them every day.


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Eventually, I was able to clean up the back. I planted Black Krim tomatoes, created a magic circle of rocks that contained the only grass left (barely) growing. But the middle of summer 2009 was here and it was hot, and dry, and hot.

I planted the jasminum sambac, eggplants, bell peppers and small Persian cucumbers.



To my surprise, the black krim were setting some fruit.

The volunteer morning glories (from the neighbor) were starting to bloom.

I found two volunteer spiderwort (?).

In the front, I mulched and used some decorative river rock.

This passion vine came through the fence from the neighbor’s and bloomed for me a few times before it was eaten up by caterpillars.

Cardinals would come out to play, but the worst of the summer was near.

In the front, I saw my first rain lily.

I got an earthbox and planted eggplant and basil (also a roma tomato that bit the dust fairly quickly because it was getting way too hot).

The Black Krim kept frying, and the squireles ate all but one of the ripening tomatoes. At least I got to taste my first Black Krim.

The other eggplant in the ground only gave me one eggplant, while the one in the earthbox gave me 20+.

First eggplant.

I got a “Coral Nymph” salvia, and it had blooms on it daily even in the terrible heat of that summer.

Not a plant, but we got a new light to replace the one the hail demolished.

Earthbox basil looked happy.

A purple salvia greggi that needed some more water.

In between the roses in the front, I planted one Four O’Clock that had survived from seed, even after the hail storm. I knew some people didn’t like them because they reseed like crazy, but I wanted to give it a shot. It filled in the space nicely and produced lovely little blooms, until the winter killed it off.


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It was raining a lot today, and when I got home the roses in the front were covered with blooms and rain droplets.

After the sun set, I looked out the french door at the garden and thought I saw a flying pixie. But it wasn’t a pixie. It was a snail, and it looked like it was being beamed up by an alien spaceship. But it wasn’t. It was crawling up the glass, making it’s way to the second story.


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I spent the winter reading, watching, and learning, and I started visiting local nurseries for the first time in 2009.



I made my first pesto using the Persian Basil planted the year before.

I tried to start about a million seeds. Moonflower, coral vine,
four o’clocks, basil, thyme, other herbs, other flowers, a ton of vegetable seeds. I even tried cuttings of Rosemary.

We had the old wood siding taken off of the front of the house and hardi put in. After the construction was done, we turned our attention to the two small strips of dirt near the front door. I bought 30 or so tiny (very tiny) bulbs of “Prairie Sunset” rain lilies, Daylilies: Best of Friends (online dailiy vendor), Metaphor (online daylily vendor), Breathless Beauty (crappy bag of dead mystery roots from big box store), Moonlit Masquerade(crappy bag of dead mystery roots from big box store), and Rose Passion (crappy bag of dead mystery roots from big box store). Two “Grand Primo” narcissus. Two red double knockout roses, and one pink knockout.

I didn’t have to wait long to be rewarded with blooms.

This daylily that bloomed from one of the big box store bag of crappy dead roots didn’t look anything like the labeled daylily it was supposed to be.

Right after enjoying my first few blooms, our house was severely damaged in a terrible hail storm on March 25th, 2009.


Most of the million seedlings died that day, but I went on planning the ones that looked like they could make it.

We had to have many things repaired replaced at our house (windows, roof, skylight, doors, siding), and the damaged plants that I had taken care of were moved away or killed by the construction. The back yard went back to square one. Dirt and nothing more.

Surprisingly, the front yard plants weren’t too badly damaged, and the roses kept on going.

The “Metaphor” daylilies bloomed a few times. But besides the small mystery orange/yellow daylily, and the “Metaphor” no other daylily bloomed in 2009.

My very eventful, and sometimes stressful spring 2009 ended.


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David and I bought our first house in the summer of 2007, and for the first time we had some very small pieces of land to call our own.


In the beginning, the house was such a big project that we neglected all of the green spaces, and soon all of that green died.


It took a year, but I finally started thinking about the outside spaces, and how I wanted them to look. At this point, I still didn’t know anything about plants.

My first plan consisted of grass and asian jasmine. I didn’t even think about changing the shapes that were already there in mulch and plastic edging. And so, David and I, uneducated about anything green and living, set out to waste some money buy some scraggly, mostly dead, looking St. Augustine sod because the season was ending, with about 8 starts of asian jasmine. We put down the sod, incorrectly, and I planted the asian jasmine in the mulched area to the right. Most of the grass died and none of the asian jasmine grew, at all. I read that they were drought tolerant, so I didn’t water them… much.


The first plan obviously didn’t work out and I found plants from the big box store that I thought would be fun to grow. I also spray painted the pots that had come with the house an aqua blue. I started reading about how to take care of the new plants I put into the pots.

My dad gave me some Persian basil seeds from my grandmother in Iran, I bought a grape tomato start, and a Jasminum Sambac, which I loved because the scent reminded me of Iran and the Mediterranean.

The grape tomato grew and produced about 80 tomatoes total, even though I didn’t know how to baby it very well.

And I learned that bonsai are way too much work.

I didn’t figure out until later why my basil weren’t getting bushy on their own, but I was able to make delicious pesto from my first basil plant.

I started a miniature compost been in a plastic tub.

My step-mom gave me a catnip plant for Mojito to enjoy.

I learned about fish emulsion and it made my plants very happy.

My step-mom also gave me an Encore azalea, but it didn’t make it very long after I planted it in the ground.

I bought a mint plant and also started collecting rocks from home construction sites because I started thinking about the layout again, not just plants I found at the store that I liked at that moment.

I started reading garden blogs from gardeners in Austin, and started learning more about native, naturalized and drought tolerant plants. I bought a few Oxblood Lily bulbs from a vendor online, after seeing how beautiful they were growing for the garden bloggers. My passion started to grow exponentially, and I was excited about gardening more in 2009.


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I attended some of the panels with my coworkers from Dell. I saw several of my friends at SXSW, and made sure to meet new people as well.


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At SXSW, some of the panels weren’t as interesting as some others. I took more time to draw during those, if I didn’t sneak out and go to another panel.


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I attended SXSW interactive this year, for the first time. It was a great experience and I made sure to capture parts of it in my sketchbook. One of the conversations that I attended, Get What You Want, Whatever It Is, wasn’t about design, digital or anything interactive, the subjects covered were positivity, luck and happiness.


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Mojito loves laying on dirty clothes right before they get thrown into the washer. Look at his mass amounts of fuzz!



During the remodeling downstairs, dust and dirt got into Mojie’s mass amounts of fuzz and caused his fur to mat up, we couldn’t help him remove of all of them so off to the groomers he went, for the second time in his life. He didn’t like it at first.


Then he started to enjoy it.

David loves this photo because it shows that our house is “actually lived in”. I, on the other hand, wish that I had picked up a bit more before this photo was taken.

Here’s another, and now you know that I don’t always put my shoes away.

I really love this new rug we got for the newly renovated living room. Have you looked at the before pictures?

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It has been snowing all day, big fat wet snowflakes that have accumulated at least 2 inches. They say it hasn’t snowed like this in Austin, TX since 1984. I remember an ice storm in 2006, but I haven’t seen snow flakes this fat since I lived in Milwaukee, Bbbrrrrr. Wasn’t it just a couple weeks ago that I was complaining about global warming? On Sunday it was in the 70′s and gorgeous, the kind of day that smells sweet with sunshine and wishes floating in the air about how you don’t ever want it to end. I guess it’s back to dreaming about spring.


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It would be my dream to have 17 cats living in our house, but alas, the husband won’t let me turn into a full fledged crazy cat lady. Meanwhile, I’ll use the abundant cat hairs that can be found at any given time in any given space of our house to experiment planting and growing new cats in pots. It’ll work one day, it has to!


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Just like we had a crazy hot summer in 2009, we had a crazy cold winter too (the neighbor’s water pipe burst). Yay, global warming. I lost a few plants in my garden, the jasminum sambac looks fairly dead but I’ve read that it could come back from the roots in Spring. Some of my herbs are nice and hardy, the rosemary, lavender, and thyme weren’t fazed by the cold temperatures, thankfully. I’ll have to remember that I will have a green garden again soon.

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We’re having major renovations done to our house and while this is all very exciting, we’ve also had to live in our master bedroom for weeks while it’s been going on. All of our downstairs furniture is in the garage, and all of our dishes and belongings are stuffed in our guest room, bedroom, closets, and any other nook and cranny we could find. I can’t wait till it’s all over, and I’ll try not to go crazy meanwhile.


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2009 was a very slow year for this blog. There was so much change in my personal life (new job, tons of freelance work, marriage, house remodeling, husband’s job change to full time freelance) that I needed more time to myself until I got back into a normal rhythm before seriously blogging again. I’m sorry that I lost readers along the way last year, but I am looking forward to building everything back up in 2010.

As well as blogging more in general, I’m going to do more artwork this year (and try to eat out less, etc.)! I’m still working on writing S.M.A.R.T goals for myself, they won’t be easy, but I’m up for the challenge.

  • S = Specific
  • M = Measurable
  • A = Attainable
  • R = Realistic
  • T = Timely

David and I are starting to work on a comic together, not exactly sure yet where it will go, but I’m taking inspiration from the artwork in this page of the Dresden Codak. I also need to finish painting the Mirror Mirror illustration, it’s getting there and I get a lot done whenever I sit down and work on it, I just need to work on it more often.


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David and I finished a new portrait for Red Tie Studios and it is our first official pet portrait! A double dose of cute called Bella and Cookie, ready just in time for the holidays.


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