Author Archives: Denise

Do You Groupon?

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Denise

Current rainwater catchment system: Desired rainwater catchment system, available now, half-price, through Groupon. We’ve been dithering for some time over how to incorporate into a small lot what have been up to now bulky rainwater collection systems. The size, the … Continue reading →

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Plant Show Weekend/Weakened

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Denise

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 … Continue reading →

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Do It In The Garden

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Denise

The couch was occupied by a lower back temporarily refusing to face another day, so the person attached to the lower back had on the TV to ease the situation. (Not my lower back, still capable of a good dig … Continue reading →

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Potting Soil From Flora Grubb

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Denise

MB Maher is spending a lot of time in San Francisco this spring and needed to buy some potting soil for the new roots he’s putting down. He sent back a few photos of his excursion. Nice place to buy … Continue reading →

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Occasional Daily Photo/Poppy Pictorial

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Denise

With a nod to Sports Illustrated, The Poppy Issue, eagerly anticipated by quivering antennae everywhere. Poppies are everything I aspire to be: simultaneously modest and bold, strong but always flexible, taking up only as much ground as necessary and not … Continue reading →

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Senecio crassimus

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Denise

I don’t see this succulent for sale frequently, or in gardens very often for that matter. Got mine at the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show a couple years back, which coincidentally is opening next week, March 23-27, 2011. If … Continue reading →

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West Los Angeles Nursery Crawl

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Denise

I don’t explore West Los Angeles and Santa Monica nearly enough, since getting there means battling some of the worst traffic in Southern California. But yesterday afternoon I had to work in the 1800 block of Sawtelle, roughly between Olympic … Continue reading →

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Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Citrus

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Denise

Easily within reach from the driveway, but morally out of bounds. I don’t want his bananas, just the citrus. We inherited a large, scale-infested, whitefly-festooned lemon tree with this house. A couple years later, the giant whitefly, Aleurodicus dugesii, winged … Continue reading →

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Dear AGO

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Denise

“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 →

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Foliage Follow-Up March 2011

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Denise

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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