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Jim, I don’t know exactly where you live. You mentioned the Columbia gorge, so I am guessing Oregon. I don’t know if the orchid cactus live in real, real cold weather. I get frost in the winter, and the orchid cactus do o.k. Right now it is full of giant yellow flowers.the flowers bloom all spring, and summer. It is a easy plant to grow.
Your land sounds big, do you have many acres?
My property is very big, I also have a big hill in the back, and smaller hill on the side.
There is a path up the hill that I sometimes walk up, and can look out at the hills/mountains.
On a clear night you can see all the stars, and a lot of Owls flying around. One time last summer a big white owl came within inches of my head. He must of thought I was pray or something. Now I wear a hat, don’t want an owl that close to me.
I know how you feel about losing a pet dog. They are family. It does leave a void in your life, and heart.
Do you have a SUNSET book? It has all the plants that will live in an area. Mine is for California, but I’m sure they print for other parts of the U.S.
You did a lot of work with pavers. Did you have help?
Take care,
Funcountess
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@funcountess I live in central Oregon, which is high desert. I think it's around 3000' elevation, and it gets cold and stays cold, quite a bit more than just a frost.
I have a cellar that stays between 40 and 55 year round, and I keep the summer patio plants down there under grow lights when it starts to get close to freezing.
I do everything myself. I have a Sunset garden book, learned a lot from reading a lot of books and websites. Gardening is a challenge here, with deer and coyotes and hungry birds and earwigs.
We have 10 acres, with 7.3 acres irrigated with water rights. When we moved here it didn't take long to see that the previous owner wasn't big on maintenance. The first thing we had to do was replace the old field fence with horse no-climb. That's a lot of fence and fence posts. We met a couple with two young sons who needed a place for their horses and the boys' 4H animals. They used the pasture and barn in exchange for them to put up the fence and take care of the irrigation until a year ago. Then a neighbor asked if they could lease our pasture for cows and horses in exchange for doing the irrigation and upgrading the ground. They put a gate in our fence that makes it really convenient for them to move the animals from my pasture to their corral.
Our house is a little higher than town so we have a good view of the valley and the Cascades. The isolation associated with the corona virus isn't all that different from the way we already live. We enjoy our space, quiet and dark enough to see the milky way. Sounds like you can say the same about your home.
Jim