Author Archives: Denise

Occasional Daily Photo

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Denise

California poppies and agave at sunrise in an Altadena, California garden designed by Sue Dadd.

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Gladiolus communis ssp. byzantinus

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Denise

Some byzantine glads opened while I was out of town a few days. Flowers have that unerring sense of timing, don’t they? As I’ve written before, these bulbs are an inferior strain, in that they are not the desired deep … Continue reading →

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Marina District, San Francisco

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Denise

There’s a particular pet-friendly motel we like in this district near the Presidio in San Francisco, the Marina Motel, which is where we stayed for the recent garden show. Ein with his garden show face on. Plants are a big … Continue reading →

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Wyatt Ellison Metal Work

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Denise

Somebody sign this man up now to do whatever he wants with an exhibit at a 2012 garden show. Flora Grubb Gardens currently has a good selection of his work, where I snapped these photos over the weekend. Images frrom … Continue reading →

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Garden Show Road Trip 2011

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Denise

Smashing two of my fingers in a car door just before leaving San Francisco hasn’t helped to speed up the process of posting a few measly photos from the show. Not quite the airtight excuse, since having two fingers turning … Continue reading →

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Do You Groupon?

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Denise

Current rainwater catchment system: Desired rainwater catchment system, available now, half-price, through Groupon. We’ve been dithering for some time over how to incorporate into a small lot what have been up to now bulky rainwater collection systems. The size, the … Continue reading →

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Plant Show Weekend/Weakened

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Denise

I vaguely remember promising not to post any more photos of tulips, so in my weakened state I’m violating that oath with one more photo of tulips ‘Queen of the Night,’ taken just before heading north for the San Francisco … Continue reading →

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Do It In The Garden

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Denise

The couch was occupied by a lower back temporarily refusing to face another day, so the person attached to the lower back had on the TV to ease the situation. (Not my lower back, still capable of a good dig … Continue reading →

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Potting Soil From Flora Grubb

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Denise

MB Maher is spending a lot of time in San Francisco this spring and needed to buy some potting soil for the new roots he’s putting down. He sent back a few photos of his excursion. Nice place to buy … Continue reading →

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Occasional Daily Photo/Poppy Pictorial

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Denise

With a nod to Sports Illustrated, The Poppy Issue, eagerly anticipated by quivering antennae everywhere. Poppies are everything I aspire to be: simultaneously modest and bold, strong but always flexible, taking up only as much ground as necessary and not … Continue reading →

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