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My garden, after the inferno...
Well here we are. I said I'd post a follow-up to our recent heatwave and share photos of how everything did. As a reminder Friday-Monday was 97, 108, 112, 116 and 93—three new records for all time high...
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Concordia, AZ—a follow-up
Right before our February "week of winter" I was out walking and happened upon a garden near me with a nice little patch of opuntia and agaves—it's the first garden in this post. I've been wondering...
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Discovering more spikes in the 'hood: Welcome to Tiny Tucson!
On Monday's post "Concordia AZ" I shared an alternate name for my neighborhood, courtesy of my husband's imagination, as we stopped so I could photograph a neighborhood garden. After that we turned a...
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The Modern Crevice Garden with Kenton Seth for the HPSO—you don't want to...
I've known Kenton Seth for around six years now. Sadly we've never met in person, but we've carried on a lively back and forth via email, our blogs, Instagram, written letters and a few phone calls....
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Reworking a problem area...
There are areas in a garden that just seem come together and always look fantastic, with little to no effort. Then there are the areas that you work, rework, and still feel are not quite right. Today's...
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The Huntington Garden... a quick walk through the jungle
Back to the Huntington (my December 2019 visit) and a quick zip through the Jungle Garden. Or more accurately perhaps a bit of the Lily Ponds, Jungle Garden, Palm Garden and maybe even a bit of the...
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Bloomday, July 2021
It's Garden Blogger's Bloomday! And.... this post is completely backwards from how I wanted to share it. I forgot to start with the Blogger Secret Code Words (stupid glitch on the Blogger software)...
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The Huntington Garden, the end (until next time)
Almost 19 months after my visit to the Huntington Gardens in San Marino, CA, and I'm finally posting my last photos... This building houses their European Art Collection. Of course I didn't go inside,...
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And then you jump...
One of my brothers moved to Phoenix, back in 2000 I think it was. We were both living in Spokane at the time, I was horribly sad to see him go—and a little jealous. I'd escaped to Seattle in the early...
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A few things I learned from breaking an ankle at the height of gardening...
It's been seven weeks since I listened to those of you telling me to go get my ankle checked—that it might have been more than just a sprain. Which of course it was. It's been seven weeks since I've...
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It's National Agave Day!
I don't remember how I discovered that July 24th is National Tequila Day, but it is. That, of course, got me wondering if there was a National Agave Day, after all: no agave, no tequila. Sadly I...
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That's bananas...
The tallest (over 6ft) and thickest stalk of my Musa Basjoo (hardy banana) clump never did look good after last February's late freeze. I left it for awhile, hoping something would push out, but when...
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Wednesday Vignette, white rock ahoy!
When Andrew and I drove by this hellstrip corner I swear I heard my mom say "well, that's different" (and she wouldn't be wrong)...White rock, pagoda, bridge to nowhere (over nothing), Japanese maple,...
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Fearless Gardening—an Author Talk for the Ruth Bancroft Garden
While putting together images for my National Agave Day post last Friday, I did a search for Agave parryi 'Notorious RBG'. I wanted to make sure I was being consistent with my made up name for the...
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Under Western Skies; a book to savor
Not since The Planthunter: Truth, Beauty, Chaos and Plantshas there been a book I've so enjoyed reading while sitting in the garden. Just like The Planthunter I'm taking this one slow, savoring every...
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Palmscaping
What is "palmscaping"? Adding plants to your palm tree trunk, a plant version of tablescaping, or mantelscaping. Since our local (default) hardy palm—the trachycarpus—comes with a hairy trunk ready...
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Walking (slowly) and agave hunting...
I hope that by now you all have experienced the overwhelmingly joy of getting together with family (and friends who are family) after the long COVID pause. Because of my ankle break, and the resulting...
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DANGER!
This angled vent planter was one of the first things I hung on the fence that borders the south side of our property. It was also the perfect place to hang the vintage enamel DANGER sign Lauren gave me...
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Heather's garden...for real this time
I've only done a limited look at my friend Heather's garden in the past (here), so I'm excited to share these photos I took at her open garden for the HPSO back on July 31st...The tall bloomer is...
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Plants on Broadway...
I don't remember who interviewed me, but I remember being asked to ID a couple of plants they'd taken photos of—and to provide the nursery name where I'd purchased them. When I said I'd bought them at...
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