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Finishing up SoCal 2014 with a visit to the Conejo Valley Botanic Garden
On the last day of our 2014 trip to Southern California we paid a visit to the Conejo Valley Botanic Garden...what? You've never heard of it?From their website: "The Conejo Valley is a region spanning...
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Beverly Boulevard: Rolling Greens and Modernica
Back in the day, I spent as much time studying interior design as horticulture. While still a single lady my home was regularly reworked – new things brought in, style changes – anything was fair game....
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Another garden visit (flashback to September)...
On a rainy Saturday back in early September I went on a couple garden visits. My goal was to see the garden of Barbara Blossom Ashmun, but as sometimes happens when one is opening their garden for the...
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Wednesday Vignette: Oh No!
Andrew took this photo while exploring the far-edges of a nursery we visited in Southern California. The caption "Oh No!" was the subject line when it was emailed to me. Four little Buddhas, a gnome...
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Bellevue Botanical Garden
The 2011 Seattle Garden Bloggers Fling included a stop at the Bellevue Botanical Garden. Ever since that visit I've wanted to get back, I finally did last October on a beautiful (sunny!) day.Parts of...
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Bloomday January 2016
Happy First Garden Bloggers Bloomday of the New Year!I went out to take this month's Bloomday photos feeling like January is the month where everything is on pause. I came back in feeling a little less...
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Foliage follow-up - new!
I didn't plan to post for Foliage Follow-up, but I'm just so excited about the Sansevieria suffruticosa in my new Case Study Planter from Modernica...I love their agave like shape, sadly I don't think...
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In a vase on Monday: something new, to compliment the old...
This entire mantel arrangement was the subject of my last In a Vase on Monday post, on January 4th.Everything is still looking great, with a tiny exception or two...So I decided this week's vase would...
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A day in the life of a frustrated gardener...
Ah...a free afternoon, what to do...? Well play in the garden would be my first choice. But it was cold and wet and rain more threatened. I didn't feel like working in a cold and wet garden. Still the...
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Wednesday Vignette - California plant haul
After they spent a full day in the trunk of our rental car I couldn't wait to get my new plants out, into the light at our hotel in Ventura, CA. Once done I sat down in the cushy hotel chair and had to...
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A January trip to Cistus Nursery
I have a friend who has just now, in his 40's, decided it's time to learn to drive. I can't imagine. Whenever my world feels like it's starting to close in on me, a nice long (preferably fast) drive...
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Mushrooms and Berries, in unexpected places
This is the second winter I've used these cheap woven hanging planters from IKEA (made from water hyacinth, according to their website). For some reason the Maidenhair Ferns I planted in them this fall...
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In a Vase on Monday - The Goodwill Challenge
No, it's not another Challenge in the same vein as the Ornamental Cabbage & Kale Challenge or the Poinsettia Challenge – this one's personal. Issued directly to me, and only me...quietly at the...
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Visiting The Plant Provocateur
I met Hank (the provocateur himself) briefly during the 2013 Garden Blogger's Fling in San Francisco. As with every "Fling" there were so many new faces that it was hard to put a name to every single...
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Wednesday Vignette: Parry, I don't think you're in Arizona anymore
I've put off documenting what my garden looks like post January snow and ice. Â Thankfully there are several Agaves looking better than this A. parryi...Wednesday vignette is hosted by Anna, at Flutter...
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An afternoon at UCLA
After our visit to The Plant Provocateur we set off for the UCLA campus and the Fowler Museum.The Fowler was having an exhibition, Disguise: Masks & Global African Art, that Andrew wanted to see....
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Some favorite plants, for January 2016
Most of this month's favorites share a very important feature. They're planted right by the front door so I see them regularly, even without venturing outside into the non-stop rain fest that our...
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In a Vase on Monday, Aloha Pepeluali!
This week's "In a Vase" creation...Was inspired by the fact my pass-along Schlumbergera truncata (from my friend Peter, the Outlaw) is blooming for the first time. I needed something fun and tropical...
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The Melianthus Chop
You may remember photos of a lush Melianthus ('Antonow's Blue') from a recent post.Its tall stems were weighted down by the snow and ice we had in early January, but they popped back up quickly.Lots of...
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Wednesday Vignette: you're doing what?
Andrew called to say he was on his way home from work, was I listening to the debate? (Republican, last week) "No, I'm currently wheeling a heavy piece of metal down the street toward our home"......
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