Tag Archives: Glaucium grandiflorum
Bloomday September 2016
We’ve been babysitting a cat whose life had been previously confined to indoors. His love for his newfound garden kingdom almost matches my own. But his ungainly enthusiasm translates into tearing through the garden like a baby elephant, and stalking … Continue reading
Bloom Day July 2016
I’m going to try a systematic approach, so bear with me. Right outside the office, the planting is getting some height from the bog sage, kangaroo paws, and Pennisetum ‘Skyrocket’ showing a few blooms way in the back. Using the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bocconia frutescens, Bulbine 'Athena Compact Orange', Calamagrostis brachytricha, Calamintha 'Montrose White', Chrysocephalum aplicata, Elymus 'Canyon Prince', Glaucium grandiflorum, Hazardia detonsa, Marrubium supinum, Melinus nerviglumis, Origanum 'Rosenkuppel', Pennisetum 'Fairy Tails', Penstemon 'Enor', Puya laxa, Salvia uliginosa, Sedum 'Blue Pearl', Senecio medley-woodii, Verbena bonariensis
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Bloom Day June 2016
In June, it seems like everywhere you point the camera, something is in bloom. Glaucium grandiflorum wants the entire garden for itself, so there’s been lots of ongoing, strategic pruning. The blooms of Eryngium planum eventually slide from silvery-green into … Continue reading
status update Rudbeckia maxima 5/2/16
Another example of the odd juxtapositions that occur in my garden from year to year, due to an unremitting curiosity about plants I just don’t get to see locally: Lights, laundry shed, giant coneflower! The cabbage coneflower, Rudbeckia maxima, known … Continue reading
Occasional Daily Weather Report 2/11/16
While it seems everyone else is diligently topping off their water table with generous rainfall and/or snowfall, there’s no use denying it’s already chair cushion season here. Los Angeles in February decided to go high 80s, tipping into the 90s. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aloe 'Safari Sunrise', Aloe conifera, Bocconia frutescens, Chanticleer, Euphorbia atropurpurea, Glaucium grandiflorum, Grevillea 'Robyn Gordon', Helleborus argutifolius, Leucadendron 'Winter Red', Leucadendron ‘Wilson’s Wonder’, Monrovia
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Bloom Day September 2015
Since I’m already running a day late for the Bloom Day reports collected by May Dreams Gardens on the 15th of every month, I’ll try to limit the repetition. September pretty much mirrors August, but here’s a couple oddballs, a … Continue reading
Bloom Day August 2015
There’s not much difference between July and August, or even June Bloom Day posts, but I suppose it’s useful to see what has survived, who’s stalwart and who’s a wimp. And I have been dropping some new stuff into the … Continue reading
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Tagged ' Euphorbia 'Diamond Frost, Abutilon venosum, Asarina scandens, Begonia 'Unbelievable Lucky Strike', Begonia 'Unstoppable Upright Big Fire', Bulbine 'Athena Compact Orange', Crassula ovata 'Hummel's Sunset', Crocosmia 'Solfatare', Eryngium pandanifolium, Euphorbia ammak variegata, Glaucium grandiflorum, Gomphrena 'Balboa', Gomphrena 'Fireworks', Grevillea 'Robyn Gordon', Lotus jacobaeus, Pennisetum 'Sky Rocket', Plectranthus zuluensis, Russelia equisetiformis, Salvia uliginosa, Sphaeralcea 'Newleaze Coral', Stipa ichu, Tradescantia 'Greenlee'
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summer camp state of mind
I never attended summer camp as a kid, but family camping trips always included my grandmother, a kitchen’s worth of pots and pans, and her sturdy army cot. Thus equipped, my formidable grandmother was ready for anything and wanted nothing … Continue reading
Bloom Day July 2015
The planting under the Acacia baileyana ‘Purpurea’ is all fairly new, except for the Plectranthus neochilus. Stinky or not, it’s a great addition to a dry garden. Gomphrena ‘Balboa’ is the clover-like flowers with silver leaves, which blends in seamlessly … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, Bloom Day, pots and containers
Tagged Abutilon venosum, Agave 'Snow Glow', Agave franzosinii, Agave gypsophila 'Ivory Curls', Agave vilmoriniana, Aloe distans, Aristida purpurea, Berkheya purpurea, Cordyline ‘Electric Star’, Cosmos ‘Double Click Cranberry', Crithmum maritimum, Eryngium pandanifolium, Gaura 'Belleza', Glaucium grandiflorum, Gnidia polystacha, Pelargonium sidoides, Pennisetum 'Sky Rocket', Phygelius 'Diablo', Plectranthus neochilus, Ruellia macrantha, Sesleria autumnalis 'Campo Verde', Sonchus congestus, Sphaeralcea 'Newleaze Coral', Yucca aloifolia 'Blue Boy'
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