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In a Vase on Monday: Bidding adieux to my dahlias and zinnias
I'd hoped that I could keep the dahlias and zinnias in my cutting garden going until the end of the month but last week's Santa Ana winds, also known as "devil winds," knocked out the blooms of all but...
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Visit to the Los Angeles County Arboretum
I admit I haven't been to the Los Angeles County Arboretum in many years. Fifty miles to the east of my current residence, getting there takes more than an hour and requires navigation of 4 freeways....
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This week in my garden
Last Friday I wrote about new plants. This week, I did a little planting and a lot of garden clean-up.I had the most fun with my first project, replanting the window boxes attached to my lath (shade)...
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In a Vase on Monday: Time to move on
We had another difficult week in the US. Fourteen bombs delivered to prominent critics of the President. Eleven more people gunned down in a house of worship. The frequency of such unimaginable,...
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Wednesday Vignette: Intruders
It's Halloween but I'm not in a proper mood to celebrate. Added to that, my pumpkin monster, created more than 2 weeks ago, developed a bad case of mold and had to be tossed in the compost bin a...
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Fire Management
For a few weeks now, I've been wondering what the heck I should do with the bountiful Euphorbia tirucalli 'Sticks on Fire' I have growing in a strawberry pot in my cutting garden. Yesterday, I woke up...
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In a Vase on Monday: Old Standbys
Without any blooms in my cutting beds, I've had to take a harder look at the rest of my garden for inspiration in preparing flower arrangements for "In a Vase on Monday," the popular meme hosted by...
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Wednesday Vignette: Just a pretty picture
I took this photo last Thursday as my husband and I were preparing to sit down to dinner, no doubt annoying him as I grabbed my camera and rushed outside. When I saw the pink color of the sunset had...
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More New Plants!
It's been 3 weeks since my last new plants report. It's time for another! Last Saturday, a friend and I drove north to visit some of our favorite plant nurseries as we do at least twice a year. Our...
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(Not) In a Vase on Monday: Thinking outside the vase
Cathy at Rambling in the Garden, our In a Vase on Monday host, is celebrating the fifth anniversary of this popular meme. Last week she challenged participants to put together something not in a vase....
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Bloom Day - November 2018
Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day snuck up on me this month. Caught up in the midterm elections and the events that followed, another mass shooting, and a spate of horrific wildfires, my garden has taken a...
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Touches of Fall Color
Although Pam at Digging no longer hosts her foliage follow-up meme, I'm still conditioned to think about foliage after collecting a glut of photos in preparation for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. There...
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In a Vase on Monday: Simpler
I've got a tendency to cram too much into the arrangements I create for "In a Vase on Monday," the weekly meme hosted by Cathy at Rambling in the Garden. This week I kept things simpler. Of course,...
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November spin through the South Coast Botanic Garden
A Monday morning meeting brought me back to the South Coast Botanic Garden, approximately 5 miles from my home, this week. As it'd been a month since I'd walked the garden and the docents had a tour...
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Rain, wonderful rain
It rained during the wee small hours of Thanksgiving morning. It wasn't a lot, just 0.65/inch, but it gave my garden a good soaking, scrubbing away the dust and dirt left by several rounds of Santa...
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In a Vase on Monday: Super-sized
The unripe fuzzy peach-pink cones on the Magnolia tree in the front garden got me started on Sunday morning as I assembled materials for "In a Vase on Monday," the meme hosted by Cathy at Rambling in...
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Terracing a steep slope
Regrettably, this isn't a post on my own back slope, which following the hard hit it took in early July when our temperature reached 110F, is looking uglier than ever. I took the following photos in...
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In a Vase on Monday: From subtle to vivid
This is my one-thousandth post since starting this blog in late December 2012. I've participated in several memes in that period but none more frequently than "In a Vase on Monday," which I joined in...
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Succor in Succulents
It's been cold here of late. No, not cold by the standards of those of you awaking to frost decorating your plants or snow blanketing everything in sight, but cold compared to what we're used to here...
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More rain!
I'd planned another post for today but Mother Nature unexpectedly put on a major show this week and it warranted some attention. Our third rainstorm of the season moved in late Tuesday, slowly built...
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