Category Archives: MB Maher
Winter Storms
The long-awaited winter storms did arrive with a vengeance, drumming rain deep into the soil. Don’t you want a subterranean view of a cross section of the earth moistening sequentially into ever richer chocolate layers as the rain percolates down … Continue reading
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Tagged Lily Briscoe, Los Angeles Lighthouse, Mrs. Ramsay, To The Lighthouse
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Grace Under Pressure
This is about as basic as it gets, squirting water out of a garden hose. Very inefficient and ineffective, yet I grab a hose practically every day, however briefly, to at least water the pots and new plantings. And as … Continue reading
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Tagged Cotinus 'Grace', Euphorbia ceratocarpa, irrigation, mediterranean climate
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Alien Gomphrena
This horticultural enigma, resembling in this photo by MB Maher a wayward swarm of magenta bees, may be a native Texan gomphrena. Brought home to my zone 10 garden from a local nursery tagged as a species gomphrena, I first … Continue reading
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Horticultural Mash Notes from the Middle of the World
Zone 10, 32 degrees latitude, to be exact. Have been reading this fall many blogs of brave gardeners in cold climes putting a cheerful face on the impending winter, asserting that gardens and gardeners need a rest anyway. This may … Continue reading
Moreton Bay Fig
Original banner to the blog, Ficus macrophylla, a tree with gravitas to spare, planted in the 1880s at Rancho Los Alamitos, Long Beach, California. Oh, to have the land to accommodate such a giant! (Oh, to have a rancho…and a … Continue reading
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Tagged Ficus macrophylla, Moreton Bay Fig tree, Rancho Los Alamitos
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