Category Archives: Bulbs
sunday clippings 3/8/20 (save Prospect Cottage)
Artist, filmmaker, and gardener Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, England, needs some crowd-sourcing love. If it’s one of those places you dream of one day visiting, you might want to consider helping to secure its future by donating what … Continue reading
Posted in artists, Bulbs, clippings
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nerines for November
What is up with the lack of interest in nerines in the U.S.? They have long, cuttable stems, the blooms last much longer than tulips, as in weeks rather than days, and they flower at a time of year when … Continue reading
Posted in Bloom Day, Bulbs, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged fall planting, nerines, Pseudobombax ellipticum
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bloom day june 2018, an abridged report
Looking out from the back porch this morning through the pergola which frames this view, my eye easily cut through the congestion like a laser to zero in on my June crush. Do you see it? No? I know it’s … Continue reading
keep on planting
image of Iris reticulata from Wikipedia Commons Collections of Virginia Woolf’s copious letters and diaries have sustained me through some dreary, uninspiring times. By turns bitchy and transcendent, but always dependably filled with trenchant and unflinching observations of her life … Continue reading
Posted in artists, books, Bulbs, clippings
Tagged Iris reticulata, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Vox
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In a Vase on Monday, (courtesy of the OG)
Peter/Outlaw Gardener, that indefatigable daily blogger and all-around nice guy, raffled off some vases recently. (And look who’s a winner!) I found this fat little echeveria in the front garden and unceremoniously pulled him up by the roots to welcome … Continue reading
Gladiolus papilio ‘Ruby’
I’ll tell you the same story I told Marty before work this morning, when he caught me around sunrise, barefoot and still in pajamas, crouching in the garden, snapping away with the camera. Back in March of 2014, I sent … Continue reading
Posted in Bulbs
Tagged Gladiolus 'Ruby', Gladiolus papilio, Priory Plants, species gladiolus, Sue Mann
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friday clippings 6/5/15
Late spring conversation at our house sums up living in a “mixed” household (gardeners/nongardeners): Duncan, from the back porch: Whatcha doin’ out there? Me, from deep in the garden: Sitting in a field of poppies. Duncan (scanning for alleged field … Continue reading
Posted in artists, Bulbs, clippings, shop talk
Tagged "Garden of Contrast" by James Van Sweden and Sheila Brady, "White Cloud" by Andy Cao and Xavier Perrot, Better Homes & Gardens, Cornerstone Sonoma, Cyrtanthus elatus x montanus, Garden Bloggers Fling 2015, Glaucium grandiflorum, Stephen Orr, Sunset magazine
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notes on some spring plant sales
Is that a water pistol in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? I’ve been hearing from friends in the retail nursery business that the new water restrictions have them very worried. Indeed, I’ve been told retail … Continue reading
Posted in Bulbs, climate, design, garden travel, journal, pots and containers
Tagged botanical garden plant sales, Dierama pendulum var. robustum, Flora Grubb Gardens, Fullerton Arboretum Green Scene, Huntington Botanical Garden 2015 Plant Sale, Leucadendron argenteum, Leucadendron laxum, Plectranthus zuluensis, Protea neriifolia, Rudbeckia maxima, San Francisco Botanical Garden plant sale
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