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My favorite plant this week: Bulbine frutescens
My favorite plant this week is a shrubby groundcover succulent, Bulbine frutescens. While it's not a plant that stops you in your tracks and causes you to gawk, it's a solid performer. Drought and...
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In a Vase on Monday: Slim Pickings
The flush of early summer blooms has waned and the flowers that really love the heat are just getting started, which left me with slim pickings for today's bouquet. As this is probably my last...
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Bloom Day - July 2014
It's a transitional period in my garden: most of the blooms of early summer have left the stage while the heat-loving plants of the later summer period are still standing in the wings. I've already...
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Favorite Foliage Affiliations
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My favorite plant this week: Pseuderanthemum 'Texas Tri-star'
My favorite plant this week is a relatively demure variegated plant I've featured in a number of Foliage Follow-up posts, including the most recent one. It's saddled with a convoluted name that can be...
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Bird Behavior
Our backyard fountain is a source of a wildlife activity, especially during the summer months. Birds visit it daily and the raccoons visit it nightly. I haven't managed to capture a photo of the...
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In a Vase on Monday: Watching and Waiting
I've been watching and waiting for my Coreopsis 'Redshift' to start its bloom cycle. In my garden, these blooms take over as the blooms on the Agapanthus taper off. I have a total of 8 of these...
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My favorite plant this week: Coreopsis 'Redshift'
I'm attracted to plants with yellow flowers. I've grown Coreopsis grandiflora with its prolific yellow flowers at periodic intervals but I was never really satisfied with it. It needed regular...
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In a Vase on Monday: Stargazer Lilies
I have only 2 varieties of lilies in my garden, one is an unnamed light pink variety that bloomed exceptionally early this year and the other is Lilium 'Stargazer,' which I planted from bulbs the first...
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New Succulent Bed
Some things look better viewed in close-up rather than from a distance. This can definitely be said of my new succulent bed. Although I bought what I thought were scads of succulents on a shopping...
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Succulent Curb Appeal
My friend Lynda and I have made a few trips in search of succulents over the past few months. While my own objectives on these occasions were relatively ill-defined, Lynda was very focused. She'd...
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My favorite plant this week: x Graptoveria 'Fred Ives'
As I seem to be fixated on succulents this week, it's only appropriate that I feature a succulent as my favorite plant of the week. Since planting a new succulent bed last weekend, I've had my eyes...
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Wide Shots - August 2014
It's the "dog days of summer" here. Although our daytime temperatures haven't soared above 95F (35C) since May, it has been unusually muggy, which has made the heat more uncomfortable. It cools down...
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In a Vase on Monday: Itsy Bitsy Bouquets
Before any discussion of floral bouquets, itsy bitsy or otherwise, I want to report that, this past weekend, we actually got a bit of rain out of the monsoonal moisture that has hung over the area for...
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My favorite plant of the week: Coleus 'Chocolate Splash'
Is it banal to feature a humble coleus, properly classified as Solenostemon scuttelarioides, as my favorite plant of the week? I considered other, more exotic choices but, truthfully, I find myself...
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The Fountain Bed Re-examined
In March of this year, we finished an extension of the small bed that surrounded our backyard fountain, linking it to the border we'd created along the southeast side patio last fall. I did the bulk...
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In a Vase on Monday: Exotic Blooms
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My favorite plant this week: Adenium obesum
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