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What I didn't buy...
I'm in a fall planting frenzy. I've made repeated visits to my local and not-so-local nurseries in my search for items on my planting list, plants to complement the items on my planting list, and,...
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My favorite plant this week: Yucca elephantipes
At least I think this Yucca is Y. elephantipes (aka Y. gigantea). It's another plant that came with the garden. It grows all over the hills in this area of Southern California. At the moment, it's...
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Early Fall Bouquet
I haven't cut flowers for a bouquet in a few weeks but I was prompted to spend a few moments doing so when I saw a perfectly formed white rose on a trip to take out the garbage. There are 5 rose...
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Renga Lilies Everywhere
In addition to putting in new plants, I'm taking advantage of the cooler temperatures to begin moving plants around. In fact, I spent a good part of Saturday doing just that. The biggest change...
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October 2013 Bloom Day
Purple and blue flowers are making the biggest statement in my garden this Bloom Day. Plectranthus ciliatus 'Zulu Warrior,' Salvia leucantha and Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum' are the chief...
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October 2013 Foliage Follow-up
We don't get much in the way of a seasonal foliage color change in Southern California, at least not by comparison to the northeastern parts of the United States. The only plant in my garden that's...
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Twofer Nursery Trek
This weekend, a friend and I had plans to visit a couple of nurseries in Carpinteria, a coastal California community more than 100 miles north of where I live. For various reasons, we delayed that...
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My favorite plant this week: Arbutus 'Marina'
My favorite plant in the garden this week is a tree, Arbutus 'Marina.' I inherited 5 of these trees with the house, 2 along the south side, another 2 in the backyard, and the last on the north side....
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Bouquet: Something from Nothing
Walking through my garden late yesterday afternoon, I didn't see much of anything I thought could be used to construct a bouquet (unless I duplicated the last one I created, which you can see here). I...
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Fall Planting Frenzy - Part 1
The title of this post suggests that my fall planting frenzy has just begun. In actuality, it began much earlier. You could say that it kicked off before the official start of fall when I began...
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Fall Planting Frenzy - Part II
What constitutes a planting frenzy? In my case, it means more than 6 hours in the garden in one day with scarcely a break, preceded by one or more expensive trips to nurseries or garden centers, and...
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My favorite plant this week: Senna (Cassia) bicapsularis
I looked around for a scary plant I could feature in this week's favorite post in a toast to Halloween but I couldn't come up with anything truly sinister (unless you count the mimosa tree that's on a...
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Wide Shots: November 2013
I'm participating in Heather's meme at Xericstyle featuring wide shots of the garden on the first day of each month. This month, I've got pictures of the backyard border, the side yard, and the front...
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Project completed (almost)
My husband and I finally completed the last leg of the flagstone pathway in the side yard this weekend. He's been busy with a project of his own for the last month but, with that behind him, I was...
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Fall Foliage Envy
I've been enviously admiring all the wonderful fall foliage photos posted by other bloggers over the past month. The color changes that accompany colder weather and shorter daylight hours in northern...
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Favorite plant of the week: Coprosma repens 'Plum Hussey'
It surprises me that I haven't featured Coprosma repens 'Plum Hussey' as my favorite plant of the week since I began participating in the meme sponsored by Loree of danger garden. I now have this...
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Reaching Critical Mass
Even by my own standards, I've spent a lot of time at plant nurseries and garden centers over the past couple of months. This weekend, a friend and I made our previously delayed trip up north to...
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Almost Wordless Wednesday: They're back!
Hemerocallis 'For Pete's Sake'Hemerocallis 'Persian Market'Hemerocallis 'Russian Rhapsody'Hemerocallis 'Spanish Harlem'
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Bloom Day: November 2013
Southern California has been saved the cold that is sweeping other parts of the US. In fact, recent temperatures have been more reminiscent of summer than fall. Our thermostat hit the upper 80s on...
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Foliage Follow-up: November 2013
I've added quite a few foliage plants to my garden this year (and the gardening year's not over for us yet in southern California). One of my most recent acquisitions is Dampiera trigona 'Purple...
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