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Wednesday Vignette: Wildlife Sightings
I don't get the best photos of wildlife in my garden with my point-and-click camera but I'm nonetheless always pleased when I capture an image, regardless of its quality. Yesterday, in the late...
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Succulent Shopping
In an earlier post on my spring plant shopping extravaganza, I mentioned that I'd also attended the South Coast Cactus & Succulent Society's annual show and sale at my local botanic garden. The...
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In a Vase on Monday: A Mixed Bag
We had a nice cool weekend. Although we didn't get much in the way of the rain (less than a tenth of an inch in total), gray clouds hovered over the horizon full of unrealized potential all weekend....
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Wednesday Vignette: Coming Attractions
Although we've been enjoying some comfortably cool weather (low 70sF), the signs of the approaching summer are evident in the garden. Almost overnight, the Agapanthus produced a legion of bloom...
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Spring Garden Show
South Coast Plaza, an up-scale mall in Orange County, has hosted a spring garden show for more than 2 decades. I don't remember exactly when I started attending the event, usually held in late April...
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Bloom Day - Floral Overload
I really had planned to skinny down my Bloom Day posts but it's May! Drought-stricken or not, there's a surprising amount in bloom in my Southern California garden this month. Here are the plants...
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In a Vase on Monday: More Renga Lilies
Collecting photos for my May Bloom Day post gave me an inventory of what's currently flowering in my garden and brought some choices I might otherwise have missed to the forefront when it came time to...
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Foliage follow-up: Hedging my bets
I'd hoped to get my foliage follow-up post together last night but an extended power failure interfered. We never heard what caused the failure but it lasted from 5pm to almost 11pm so my blogging...
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Another Neighborhood Stroll
One of our neighbors expressed concern that the area surrounding the entry to our neighborhood wasn't getting enough water. Since my husband was involved in re-setting the irrigation in that area, I...
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In a Vase on Monday: Recycled Materials
Most of the Agapanthus flowers in my garden are opening one by one, clump by clump but one particular clump in the front garden produced a bounty of beautiful blue blooms last week, making it hard to...
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Wednesday Vignette: King of the World!
While dashing into the backyard in connection with garden chores this past weekend, I caught sight of something out the corner of my eye. Quickly collecting my camera, I got a photo of this fellow:A...
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May Favorites
On the last Friday of the month, Loree of danger garden hosts a meme focusing on favorite plants. In preparation, I took photos of all sorts of plants but my attention kept coming back to one bed. I...
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Wednesday Vignette: King of the World!
While dashing into the backyard in connection with garden chores this past weekend, I caught sight of something out the corner of my eye. Quickly collecting my camera, I got a photo of this fellow:A...
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In a Vase on Monday: Coral Color
My May favorites post focused on the coral and red colors in one of by backyard beds and I found I couldn't shake my preoccupation with that color palette when it came time to select plants for this...
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Wednesday Vignette: Stalking a bumblebee
Although I'm lucky to have a healthy population of honey and mason bees, I rarely see bumblebees anymore, which is why I got excited when I saw that fat yellow and black creature buzzing about my...
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Visit to The Huntington Gardens - Part 1
To celebrate my recent birthday, my husband took me to The Huntington Gardens. I don't visit as often as I'd like as I hate driving through downtown Los Angeles (despite the fact I worked downtown for...
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In a Vase on Monday: The Vessel Sets the Scene
My husband bought me a new vase on our recent visit to the Huntington Botanical Gardens and, as I wanted to see what I could do with it, the vessel determined the choice of flowers this week rather...
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Weather and a Wednesday Vignette
Much as I love waking up to find the sun shining and the garden glowing, I've come to celebrate the cloudy, overcast condition that usually characterizes mornings here in late spring and early summer....
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Visit to Huntington Gardens - Part 2
Last week I posted photos taken of the Chinese and California sections of the The Huntington Botanical Gardens in late May. Although my husband and I didn't get to all 12 of the gardens, we did stroll...
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In a Vase on Monday: Flowers shining in the gloom
Note:As I had plans that would take me away from home all day Sunday, I cut and arranged my vases and prepared the post below on Saturday. The news reports from Orlando, Florida on Sunday created a...
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