Category Archives: driveby gardens

Gomphrena decumbens ‘Airy Bachelor Buttons’

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Denise

A space oddity of a gomphrena, is the Airy Bachelor Buttons. When it grew in my garden, I didn’t know its full name, only that it was a perennial gomphrena in zone 10 with a very lanky habit, that grew … Continue reading →

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driveby garden 11/2/12

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Denise

Bicycling past this house a couple days ago, I made a hard U-turn to check out the swath of silvery groundcover running alongside the sidewalk underplanting a couple shrubs. It’s probably a variety of Gazania rigens. As an inveterate plant … Continue reading →

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driveby agave garden

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Denise

I have the Long Beach Marathon to thank for finding this garden. No, I didn’t run the marathon, more like actively avoided it. The marathon barricades cut off much of my end of Long Beach on October 6, so trying … Continue reading →

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