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Reality Check: my garden at the beginning of December
Last week, in a blog post titled "In The Doldrums", my friend Alison wrote: "The certainty that I'm the only flawed gardener out there with a garden full of dying plants, thriving weeds, and huge areas...
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Black Friday, my way
Black Friday sales are not the slightest bit appealing to me, I can't think of anything that would tempt me to wade into the ugly teaming mass of shoppers looking for a deal. Of course it's quite a...
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Designing With Palms, a book review
This beautiful book has been sitting on our ottoman (we have no coffee table) since last February...I'd pick it up, start reading, get over whelmed, and put it back down. Over and over for months. To...
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Boyce Thompson Arboretum Fridays, Part 1
Way, way, way back on June 18th we visited the Boyce Thompson Arboretum in Superior, AZ. Our trip south was part of a biggish adventure that would see us driving south from Phoenix to Tucson, across to...
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Wreaths for the Season
'Tis the season, the wreaths are up...This year I was lucky to be part of a small group of folks who gathered at Rancho Cistus (the home of Sean Hogan and Preston Pew) to make wreaths with cuttings...
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The garden of Tait Moring, a stop on the 2018 Garden Bloggers Fling
Sometimes the buses we take to the Fling private gardens can't park right at the garden entrance, it's a fun game to guess exactly which garden it is that we're touring. For Tait Moring's garden—which...
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7-Dees Urban Plant Shop at Bridgeport Village
Thanks to @quickanddirtygardens and her Instagram "stories" I knew Dennis' 7-Dees had opened a plant shop at Bridgeport Village (on their website here). Of course when I was actually there last week...
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Guilt-free succulent decapitation...
As summer began to wind down, I started thinking about how I wanted to deal with things like these succulents, planted in the base of the tall metal duct planter where the Grevillea used to be. Lift...
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Boyce Thompson Arboretum Fridays, Part 2
We're back in Arizona for the second installment of our visit to the Boyce Thompson Arboretum last June. Today's coverage starts with this fabulous sign urging visitors to touch, smell, listen, look...
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December Bloomday
December's Bloomday always sneaks up on me. The weather outside is frightful, and being inside is so delightful, thus I must admit the garden's blooms are not on my mind. But, one must document, so I...
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Christmas 2018 Style
Ah Christmas...an excuse to deck the halls mantle and bring even more plants into the house...Our festive decor is a little toned down this year, for no reason other than that's what I felt like...
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Zilker Botanical Garden, a stop on the 2018 Garden Bloggers Fling
In early May, on the last day of the Austin Fling, we visited Zilker Botanical Garden...From their website: "Zilker Botanical Garden is located on 26 fenced acres of varied topography on the south bank...
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Wednesday Vignette; my Agave is ready to be picked up!
I recently traveled to Berkeley, CA, for a Pacific Horticulture Society board meeting and had the pleasure of visiting (briefly) the Regional Parks Botanic Garden at Tilden. Imagine my surprise when...
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Mission San Xavier del Bac, on a hot June afternoon
One of the places Andrew wanted to visit when we were in Tucson last summer was Mission San Xavier del Bac. Since I'd seen photos on Gerhard's blog I knew it was going to be beautiful, but I was blown...
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Boyce Thompson Arboretum Fridays, Part 3
For today's third installment of our visit to the Boyce Thompson Arboretum we'll walk the Chihuahuan Desert trail...What do you think that is in the tree? Is it a nest?Or epiphytic growth?There are...
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In a Vase on Monday, a little more holiday cheer...
An unexpectedly sunny and warm (58F!) spell drew me outside to put together a little extra holiday cheer.Back in August when I toured Monrovia they sent me home with a pair of Drimys lanceolata. The...
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Wishing you...
May your day be filled with magic, and merriment. Happy Holidays to you all...
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Wednesday Vignette; Come on in! Oh wait, never mind....
Downtown, doing a little Christmas shopping, I passed this building entrance—which isn't really much of an entrance.The plants (a variegated Osmanthus?) aren't exactly a well done display either.It...
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The garden of Colleen Jamison, a stop on the 2018 Garden Bloggers Fling
Back to Austin, in May, as we Garden Bloggers descended upon the garden of Colleen Jamison.Check out that front porch!And the custom gate to the back garden...From our Fling itinerary, Colleen says:...
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Boyce Thompson Arboretum Fridays, Part 4
Today is a wrap of my four-part series on our visit to the Boyce Thompson Arboretum last June. I can't believe it took us so many years to finally visit this garden. In my mind it was a day's drive...
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