Category Archives: Plant Portraits
K is for kniphofia
These get moved around the garden quite a bit, one of the reasons I can never keep track of their proper names. This may possibly be Kniphofia ‘Glow,’ but I wouldn’t swear to it. Currently, this remaining clump is deep … Continue reading
when plants aren’t what you expected
And I mean in the specific sense of mail-ordering one plant and then receiving a different one. With plants, impostors and mix-ups can be difficult to detect. It’s not like mail-ordering a rug, which when it arrives two weeks later … Continue reading
friday flower studies
Is it Friday already? Coreopsis tinctoria ‘Mahogany’ Large furry leaves of Plectranthus argentatus, spiky red orbs are Ricinus communis ‘New Zealand Purple, lacy gray leaves from Senecio viravira Tiny, almost-black flowers on tall stems of Pelargonium sidoides All together now, … Continue reading
plant hunting late May
I’ve been checking out local nurseries the past couple weeks, both independents and chains/franchises, which isn’t news since I do this quite a lot, but bringing a serious intent to change some of the garden late in May is news. … Continue reading
Posted in plant nurseries, Plant Portraits
Tagged Brita's Old Town Gardens, Cordyline banksii 'Electric Star', Diascia integerrima, Diascia personata, Digging Dog Nursery, Digitalis trojana, H&H Nursery, Isoplexis canariensis, Kalanchoe beharensis 'Furless', Nolana paradoxa, Pennisetum 'Sky Rocket', San Marcos Growers
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unidentified fabulous grass/sedge (Chloris virgata)
I’ve gone through a couple online plant catalogues this morning and checked out the online index to John Greenlee’s Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses. Nada. Still no ID. I brought this grass home from Western Hills long ago, when Maggie Wych … Continue reading
in love with my garden
It’s Earth Day. Or the day after, to be exact. Let’s hope being a day late is not a portent of things to come. So this morning after, I’m sending mash notes to Earth for making my little garden possible. … Continue reading
sweet peas at the community garden
Seems all I bring home from my little 10 X 10 plot lately is sweet peas and fava beans. Not exactly a practical daily diet, but nourishing enough each in their own way. More on the mysteries of fava beans … Continue reading
more poppy drama
Ferocious winds all day Monday left the poppies leaning, some struck down entirely by Tuesday morning. I was clipping off broken branches and thinning, trying to trim their sail should the winds return, when Marty walked through noting, “Hey, that … Continue reading
Posted in creatures, plant nurseries, Plant Portraits
Tagged Annie's Annuals & Perennials, annual poppies, bees, Papaver setigerum
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Geranium maderense ‘Alba’
I wasn’t sure I’d get blooms this year. Oh, there were plenty of self-sown seedlings from the one plant I brought home after it flowered, but with biennials, those plants that bloom in their second year, I always lose track … Continue reading
Posted in Occasional Daily Photo, Plant Portraits
Tagged biennials, Geranium maderense 'Alba', island of Madeira
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studies in orange
(Agave “Mr. Ripple’ gets his portrait included because, as Van Gogh wrote, “there is no orange without blue.”)