Category Archives: Plant Portraits
Some Plants to Forget
You won’t be rushing home from work to check on how these plants are holding up on a hot, dry summer day. Just forget about them. Aeonium with a nice, snaky curve, ballota, sedum, golden sedge, and a little pelargonium … Continue reading
Posted in Plant Portraits, succulents
Tagged Aeonium arboreum, Ballota 'All Hallows Green', Ballota acetabulosa, Ballota pseudodictamnus, geraniaceae, Marrubium bourgae, nutmeg geranium, Pelargonium x fragrans 'Joanne's Spring Clover', Robin Parer, scented geraniums, Sedum rupestre 'Angelina', Valerie Finnis
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Man-Eating Corydalis
There’s a man-eater loose in the neighborhood Image found here. Not a tawny blur of shadowy stripes, but a flutter of ferny glaucous leaf, 4X4 feet. Big enough for a tiger cub to hide behind. Corydalis heterocarpa, Corydalis heterocarpa var. … Continue reading
Posted in Plant Portraits
Tagged B&T World Seeds, Corydalis heterocarpa var. japonica, Plant World Seeds, zone 10
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Do It In The Garden
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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Tagged Geranium maderense 'Alba', Harvey Keitel, Martin Scorcese, Mean Streets, Robert DeNiro
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West Los Angeles Nursery Crawl
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
Dear AGO
“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
Foliage Follow-Up March 2011
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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Tagged Foliage Follow-up, Nandina domestica 'Filamentosa', Thread-Leaf Nandina
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Bloom Day March 2011
Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts this exciting monthly event, inspired by garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence’s urging that “We can have flowers nearly every month of the year.†Some days are so bleak, it seems astonishing that flowers could bloom … Continue reading
Smellovision
Here it comes… Did you get a whiff? No? Maybe scoot your chair just a bit closer. Smellovision didn’t work so great in 1960 either. I cut this bunch of sweet peas last night from my mom’s first garden, a … Continue reading
Hortus Obsessus
Spring planting must be on just about everyone’s minds now, right? I shop at Annie’s Annuals all the time, fill my cyber basket to overflowing, then walk away from the computer. The walking away is pure character building. At least … Continue reading
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Tagged Annies Annuals, Calandrinia spectabilis, Puya chilensis, terrestrial bromeliad
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Warming Up
Colors to take the chill out. Arctotis New leaves on cotinus Angelica stricta ‘Purpurea’ in pot with bromeliad Aechmea recurvata ‘Aztec Gold’