Category Archives: journal
hebes again
It’s winter, and as usual my eye craves big pots of rotund, evergreen orbs and cushions in the Mien Ruys, Dutch style. Closer to home, Sara Malone at Circle Oak Ranch in Northern California, makes a creative argument for the … Continue reading
Posted in garden travel, garden visit, journal, pots and containers
Tagged evergreens, hebes
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winter solstice 2017
The winter solstice is little more than a week away, on December 21st, after which point the days will blessedly begin to lengthen again. Huzzah! There will at last be more and more light, always cause for celebration, even if … Continue reading
Posted in clippings, edibles, inspire me, journal, MB Maher, photography
Tagged Heceta Head Lighthouse, winter solstice
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autumn garden triage
I spent most of October traveling, intermittently home just long enough to sweep up piles of ash and note that the customary accumulation of a summer’s worth of city grime on leaves had been augmented by heavy particulates from local … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden ornament, garden travel, garden visit, journal, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Aloe camperi, Dichondra sericea, Echeveria purpusorum, Euphorbia stygiana, Grevillea 'King's Fire', Grevillea 'King's Rainbow', Lephechinia fragrans 'El Tigre', Lobelia fistulosa, Phyllica pubescens, Senecio palmeri
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garden touring England in October
Palm house at Kew Gardens I started daydreaming out loud, oh, about three weeks ago, that it’d be so much fun to attend the Great Dixter Autumn Plant Fair, with vendors and speakers coming in from all over Europe on … Continue reading
golden gardens
Doing some blog research for fall planting, I was surprised to find what a luminous phase the garden entered briefly around 2014. I’ve always been drawn to bright-colored leaves, but in this period the garden glowed as if irradiated. Chief … Continue reading
to the kids, with love
Remember this photo from a few posts ago? The “east wing” was getting readied for my son Duncan’s engagement party. Add lights, paper lanterns, friends, family and cake, and voila! Duncan and Kristy’s engagement party last Sunday. A trip to … Continue reading
Posted in cut flowers, journal, MB Maher, pots and containers
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midsummer tuneup
July is usually the month my garden needs a tuneup, a jolt of the unfamiliar to keep me inspired all summer long. Checking out July Bloom Day posts back to 2013, this July has a lot of the same characters … Continue reading
a May visit to the Denver Botanic Gardens
“If you want to have an easy life as a weather forecaster, you should get a job in Las Vegas, Phoenix or Los Angeles. Predict that it won’t rain in one of those cities, and you’ll be right about 90 … Continue reading
myoverplantedgarden.com
My working title for this post was overplanted.com, but I’m glad I checked before posting — that already belongs to Tom Fischer! Yesterday seemed like a good time to check out Roger’s Gardens in Newport Beach for fall planting. In … Continue reading
a week in plants, continued
I so rarely document thoroughly, before and after, that I thought for once I’d push back a little against those slacker tendencies. This small project is an easy place to start. In the last post, there were four ‘Cousin Itt’ … Continue reading
Posted in journal, Plant Portraits, plant sales, pots and containers
Tagged Acacia 'Cousin Itt', Asparagus retrofractus, bromeliads, dry shade, Fatsia japonica 'Spider's Web', Lomandra 'Breeze', Monstera deliciosa 'Variegata', Neoregelia 'Dr. Oesser Big Spots', Neoregelia 'Martin', zone 10
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