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Halloweeny...
Encouraged by my autumn loving husband I am trying to embrace the season. I've added a few autumnal touches around the house.He's not a lover of the velvet pumpkins, but I adore them.I was going to...
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I wonder why?
Last year I conquered the dreaded empty plant hook issue with winter-weather appropriate containers. While I loved the hanging device I grew to dislike the containers themselves, so I'd been on the...
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Visiting Gerhard's agave-full garden...
When Andrew and I started talking about a trip to the Bay Area it didn’t take me long to realize that meant we’d be driving right by Gerhard’s home (and garden!) in Davis, CA. I casually mentioned the...
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New Case Study Bowls from Modernica and a giveaway…
Last January I wrote about receiving and planting up a black Case Study Table Top Cylinder from Modernica (above, with the yellow cactus). I love that planter as much, if not more, than the day it...
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Our Yucca rostrata collection earns the weekly title as two years’ worth of...
It was two years ago today that I started recognizing a favorite plant in my garden with a weekly feature. That’s 104 posts, none of which ever honored Sammy, or any of our seven Yucca rostrata, how is...
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And the winner is...
I counted up the comments on this post *New Case Study Bowls from Modernica and a giveaway…* subtracted out my comments, those that weren't eligible because of their location, and double comments, that...
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What were they thinking? (#17)
I love a simple, repetitive, plant palette - especially in a municipal planting (which I believe this is - in Albany, California). This particular combination, with dark aeoniums peeking out of orange...
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Visiting Flowerland...
Flowerland in Albany, CA, was another vacation visit based on a recommendation from Kelly, who mentioned she thinks of it as “Flora Grubb of the East Bay”…How could I pass that up?Begonia luxurians...
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The Gardener’s Garden
I get a lot of emails from companies wanting me to review their products, I dismiss most of them after a quick glance. Every once and awhile though something amazing comes through and I feel extremely...
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Disaster, adverted
It's 2006 and, sod removed, you planted your front garden. The plants were small but they grew and grew and finally the garden began to look just as you dreamed it would. And then (about 3 years in)...
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November Bloomday, before and after…
Cold, howling winds followed by ice and even colder temperatures do not make for pretty flower photos. Thus I cheated. It’s been such a warm autumn (albeit wet, once mid-October rolled around) that I...
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The Agave Report, November 2014
It's been awhile, the last full fledged agave report was filed on February 4th, with a quick addendum on May 5th. Since things were about to take a turn (weather-wise: cold, possibly snow but in...
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Ginger, franklinia and pomegranate…oh my!
Oh how wonderful it is on a cold November day to look back at an open garden visit in August, all sunny and warm.My Hesperaloe parviflora didn’t bloom this year, I missed them.This gardeners parking...
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Daphniphyllum macropodum v. humile is my favorite plant in the garden, this...
My first encounter with Daphniphyllum macropodum was at the UBC (University of British Columbia) Botanical Garden in autumn of 2010.The second, which could (by then) be considered an infatuation, was...
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Walken after the chill has lifted...
I know, it should be walkin', or walking, but see there's this barber shop I drive by that has a sandwich board sign out at the corner. It's got a face shot of Christopher Walken and the lettering says...
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Curls and Color...
Let's take a quick trip back to California! Our first stop is at Cactus Jungle - a fabulous (spiky) nursery in Berkeley. Our curls start on the barbed wire at the entrance, but that's not really what I...
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A stroll around the Kennedy School gardens...
The name is no doubt familiar to those of you who attended the Portland Garden Blogger's Fling, or even to those of you who followed along at home, reading posts about the event. I'm sort of...
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Today is the day we Americans celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. This year brings a first for me, I’m cooking Thanksgiving dinner for my parents in my home! They've never been able to travel to visit...
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Daphne x houtteana is my favorite plant this week (plus a wrap up of all...
This is Daphne x houtteana, but it could have just as easily been Daphne houtteana because to be completely honest - I'm not sure what the difference is and I certainly didn't care which one I ended up...
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And so...I make wreaths...
I can't predict these things, sometimes the urge hits and I just have to go with it...Early in November I put together this arrangement in answer to the "In a Vase on Monday" internet meme (and wrote...
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