Category Archives: Plant Portraits
Dear AGO
“Hi there, I love your blog..it is super informative and I am really impressed with it! I have a question, my boyfriend bought me this plant and I have no idea what it is. I live in California but am … Continue reading
Foliage Follow-Up March 2011
Hosted by Pam at Digging, getting things going with a shout-out for a luscious trifecta of agaves on her blog today. My contribution today is a variety of the Heavenly Bamboo, Nandina domestica ‘Filamentosa,’ the first nandina I’ve ever purchased. … Continue reading
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Tagged Foliage Follow-up, Nandina domestica 'Filamentosa', Thread-Leaf Nandina
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Bloom Day March 2011
Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts this exciting monthly event, inspired by garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence’s urging that “We can have flowers nearly every month of the year.†Some days are so bleak, it seems astonishing that flowers could bloom … Continue reading
Smellovision
Here it comes… Did you get a whiff? No? Maybe scoot your chair just a bit closer. Smellovision didn’t work so great in 1960 either. I cut this bunch of sweet peas last night from my mom’s first garden, a … Continue reading
Hortus Obsessus
Spring planting must be on just about everyone’s minds now, right? I shop at Annie’s Annuals all the time, fill my cyber basket to overflowing, then walk away from the computer. The walking away is pure character building. At least … Continue reading
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Tagged Annies Annuals, Calandrinia spectabilis, Puya chilensis, terrestrial bromeliad
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Warming Up
Colors to take the chill out. Arctotis New leaves on cotinus Angelica stricta ‘Purpurea’ in pot with bromeliad Aechmea recurvata ‘Aztec Gold’
Occasional Daily Photo/Beschorneria 3/3/11
More impending drama. The first beschorneria to bloom in my garden. I think it’s B. septentrionalis but won’t know until it blooms. The narrow leaves look a little yuccoides, and there has been some wild hybridizing going on among the … Continue reading
Poppies Unbound
My first poppy of spring, P. setigerum, self-sown Dwarf Breadseed Poppy or Poppy of Troy. Nothing unfurls like a poppy. Sure, roses and peonies have more petals, so the process is more complicated and, therefore, some might say more thrilling. … Continue reading
Cue the Ice Cream Man
The twilight opening of the door to the enchanted photographic realm of “magic hour” is announced by the canned tunes of the ice cream man plying his cold confections 365 days a year. If I’m home when that tinny music … Continue reading
Pelargonium tomentosum ‘Chocolate Mint’
Temps dropped into the high 30’s last night, not enough to damage tender pelargoniums, but cold enough to need a blanket for the couch (Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent in the queue. If only Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant had the lead … Continue reading