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Bloom Day February 2011

What was I thinking, sleeping in on Bloom Day?

Getting straight to the point…

Grevillea ‘Superb’

Pelargonium echinatum

Abutilon

Anigozanthus

Salvia chiapensis

Ammi majus

Tulips

The first flower of Salvia iodantha wagneriana in honor of Bloom Day. Thanks, Carol!

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Nameless

Among the minor reasons I took up blogging was to simply make an effort to retain plant names again. I’ve got shelves of old garden notebooks, in which I kept copious notes of plants desired, plants purchased, when they were planted in the garden, lists of seeds, when they were sown, nurseries, gardens to visit, [...]

The Best Zwartzkop in the Neighborhood

lives at David and Crissy’s house a few doors down the street and is obligingly in bloom this 15th of January in honor of Bloom Day :

Nomenclature issues for Aeonium ‘Zwartkop’ are discussed by San Marcos Growers . The dirty leaves in the San Marcos photo are usually how my dark aeoniums look, [...]