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In a Vase on Monday: Rain-sodden Blooms
We got rain this weekend! Up through Friday, all I'd heard from the weather forecasters was that we had a chance of rain over the weekend. Even Saturday morning, as it started to drizzle, the...
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Bloom Day - January 2015
If my garden is any indication, January seems to be the month of the daisy. But before I provide the round-up of the daisies currently in bloom, I want to highlight my favorite flower this month,...
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Foliage Follow-up: Favorite Foliage Combinations
For this Foliage Follow-up, the monthly celebration of foliage sponsored by Pam at Digging, I thought I'd focus on some of own favorite foliage combinations. In time, I hope the foliage in the front...
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In a Vase on Monday: A Moment in the Spotlight
Even when I have quite a few flowers in the garden, I struggle with decisions about what to cut for a vase. I don't like to duplicate the prior week's selections or color scheme if I can help it. And...
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Wordless Wednesday
All material © 2012-2015 by Kris Peterson for Late to the Garden Party
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My favorite plant of the week: Leucadendron salignum 'Chief'
While doing some work in our dry garden last Sunday, I suddenly noticed how nice my Leucadendon salignum 'Chief' was looking. It's a good-looking shrub when viewed from a distance.Photographed looking...
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In a Vase on Monday: Like Sunshine on a Summer Day
Last week, I featured a Leucadendron as my favorite plant of the week so that plant's flowers came to mind when the time came to prepare this week's vase for the meme sponsored by Cathy at Rambling in...
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Talisman or Attractant?
For Christmas, one of my friends gave me this:She painted the features of a raccoon on a smooth black rockLast week, another friend gave me this:She found it during a post-holiday sale and thought of...
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My favorite plant this week: Solanum xanti 'Mountain Pride'
It's a gray day here in coastal Southern California. On such days, spots of bright color are especially appreciated and, on rounds of the garden with my sister-in-law, here for a brief visit, I found...
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Wide Shots - February 2015
It's February 1st, which means it's time to post wide shots of my garden, as I've done since September 2013 when Heather at Xericstyle kicked off this monthly exercise.My front garden is filling in,...
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In a Vase on Monday: Side A or Side B?
So this week I got out a pair of surgical gloves and cut some of the Primula obconica that gave me a rash when I planted it. It has very pretty flowers, if also short stems, which necessitated use of...
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Wordless Wednesday: My Brother's Suburban Meadow
Photo taken by ericnp on January 30, 2015 (http://theoddsock-ericnp.blogspot.com/)All material © 2012-2015 by Kris Peterson for Late to the Garden Party
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Why should we believe a groundhog?
Tuesday was Groundhog Day, a day on which a large rodent is dragged from its burrow to predict the beginning of spring. If the groundhog sees his shadow, winter is supposed to extend its run another 6...
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In a Vase on Monday: On the Cusp Between Winter and Spring
The seasons are already shifting here - I can feel it. Although winter in coastal Southern California is little more than an abstract concept, there are changes I've come to recognize as signifying...
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Views and Trees
In our area, many people value sky-line views over the trees and other foliage that surround their homes. This wasn't something I understood when my husband and I moved here 4 years ago. We learned it...
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Bloom Day - February 2015
The last week was unseasonably hot and very, very dry. With the Santa Ana winds blowing, some flowers withered and, in one case, simply blew away.Just over a week ago, our Pyrus calleryana (ornamental...
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In a Vase on Monday: Supportive Players
In preparing my Bloom Day post, I discovered that the Cymbidium I'd been watching had finally bloomed, producing 4 flower spikes. In the past, I've moved pots of blooming orchids from the veritable...
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February Foliage Follow-up: Bronze Tones
Last week our temperatures veered into the mid-80sF (29C), making it feel not only that winter was over but that we were skipping over spring into summer. However, the morning marine layer returned on...
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Bloom Day Postscript OR Spring Refuses to Take its Time
It never fails that, as soon as I publish my Bloom Day post, I find flowers I somehow missed. Or, just as frequently, flowers bloom a day or two after the middle of the month. The number of "misses"...
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In a Vase on Monday: A Fight for Dominance
If you've read my last Bloom Day posts, you may realize that I've become obsessed with Grevilleas. As Grevillea 'Superb' recently bloomed, it seemed a good choice as the centerpiece of this week's...
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