Author Archives: Denise
porpoising (sunday clippings 11/18/12)
Surfacing briefly, like the porpoises I watched slicing the surface of the ocean on the ferry boat crossing to Catalina Island Friday. A visit mostly all business*, the pleasure coming mainly from the 30-minute walk to the conference room at … Continue reading
Occasional Daily Photo 11/14/12
I planted this Hibiscus acetosella in a big, salvaged industrial tank in July, replacing some Verbena bonariensis ‘Lollipop’ that finished unexpectedly early, and it grows so much better in the steadier conditions of a container than in the darwinian struggle … Continue reading
agaves en masse
This was one of those days when I could have used an I Brake For Agaves bumper sticker. Every town in every climate has its repertoire of plants suitable for massing in civic spaces, roadsides, road medians. Here in my … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, design, driveby gardens, succulents
Tagged Agave americana 'Variegata'
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Wordless Wednesday 11/7/12
Congratulations, Mr. President. (Image from “A Nation Emerges: The Mexican Revolution Revealed” exhibit at the Los Angeles Central Library)
shadowplay
Some startling effects can be had from shadows in the garden, like the mirror-image pattern this egg-shaped wire cage and the tillandsia within make against an east-facing wall in the morning sun. Too ephemeral an effect to pursue perhaps? One … Continue reading
Gomphrena decumbens ‘Airy Bachelor Buttons’
A space oddity of a gomphrena, is the Airy Bachelor Buttons. When it grew in my garden, I didn’t know its full name, only that it was a perennial gomphrena in zone 10 with a very lanky habit, that grew … Continue reading
driveby garden 11/2/12
Bicycling past this house a couple days ago, I made a hard U-turn to check out the swath of silvery groundcover running alongside the sidewalk underplanting a couple shrubs. It’s probably a variety of Gazania rigens. As an inveterate plant … Continue reading
Nerines in November
My zone 10, winter wet/summer dry climate makes it possible to grow nerines in the ground, and they start blooming late October/early November. These stems were cut about two days ago. Nerine bulbs are never offered for sale locally but … Continue reading