Paul Anguiano

Merriam Webster has it listed both with and without a hard T on the end. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peridot

I had never heard that final T pronounced before this thread.  How odd.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.  The hub connections always seem to be what requires the most engineering in these projects.  While I really want to see how this turns out with the ripped logs, the joins you describe sound very difficult to accomplish.

I'm still enjoying the geodesic greenhouse I built many years ago, but I used dimensional lumber and purpose-built hubs, so probably have little to contribute.

Some of this year's apple seedlings, mostly from crosses done by Steven Edholm.  I left them in the fridge too long this spring, so they were overgrown before I got them planted, but I think they've straightened out now.  I'll repot the community pots in early spring, before they leaf out again, and expect to get some good whips then.  I may do some bud grafting to get earlier fruit evaluation if I get ambitious.

My own collected seed this year will get potted in the cold frame next month.

This commercial from my youth keeps coming back to me every time I see this topic name.

Jeff Steez wrote:I greatly enjoy them. I am patiently awaiting a small 7 foot x 10 foot sheet for creating my first pond. I need to install these lily pads I have growing before they die.

You can keep water lilies alive in just a bucket for a long time.  Hardy waterlilies will even survive bog conditions without much free water indefinitely.  Tropicals only need a few inches over them.  But they'll send all their leaves into the air out of a small container if kept that way.

Big rolls of coir and sphagnum moss are not too expensive per square foot and can easily be cut into narrow strips to wrap around a center like this.  Most economical if you're making multiples, though.

I've noticed that monstera gets huge with just a lot of light, water, and support, even without a pole to climb on.  Monstera and philodendrons just need to be supported so the stem is always pushing up vertically, and they can get huge in just a few internodes, if they have the genetics for it.  Tied or propped to a stake with aerial roots allowed to hit soil from a distance will do it.

The pacific chorus frogs are everywhere here, and cute enough that I take too many pictures of them.  The bullfrogs, unfortunately, are not native.  Every few years one will show up in a pond, and if I don't remove it, all the other frogs around it will disappear (and all the small fish).