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my favorite garden show

is the one taking place at any given moment in my own backyard.

be it ever so humble and jumbled, chaotic, disheveled, contrary, exasperating, etc, etc.

That the show blithely carries on while I’m away is always slightly infuriating. More on a proper show, the 2012 San Francisco Flower & Garden [...]

Plant Show Weekend/Weakened

I vaguely remember promising not to post any more photos of tulips, so in my weakened state I’m violating that oath with one more photo of tulips ‘Queen of the Night,’ taken just before heading north for the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show. The tulips have no doubt been flattened by the serial storms [...]

Tulip Report/Queen of the Night

Sounds less zombie-ish in French: Reine de la Nuit

Amazingly long stems, over 2 feet, planted in a shallow bowl.

With ‘Double Beauty of Apeldoorn’

This will most likely be my final tulip report. A couple pots of bulbs had deformed flowers, short stems. So the winners this year for tulips amenable [...]