Category Archives: Occasional Daily Photo

Manly Plants

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Denise

I’m a lumberjack, and I’m okay. I sleep all night and I work all day. (Manly chorus: He’s a lumberjack and he’s okay He sleeps all night and he works all day) I cut down trees. I eat my lunch. … Continue reading →

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Occasional Daily Photos 6/6/11

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Denise

San Diego Cactus & Succulent Society Plant Show and Sale at Balboa Park (San Diego), California. First-time visit to this amazing show in an open-air courtyard at the Casa Del Prado of Balboa Park. I’ll stick with photos of some … Continue reading →

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Occasional Daily Photo 6/3/11

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Denise

The garage was cleaned out yesterday, and I was offered four leftover glass doorknobs. Yes, of course, I need them. I absent-mindedly stuck them in the closest thing to hand, a pot of succulents. Kinda startled me this morning, the … Continue reading →

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Occasional Daily Photo 5/25/11

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Denise

In a few weeks, the leaf margins of this flapjacks kalanchoe have flared a deep red. Which composes quite a picture with Pelargonium ‘Splendide.’

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Occasional Daily Photo 5/21/11

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Denise

Some new things in bloom I woke up to this morning. Viscaria oculata from Annie’s Annuals. I grew this annual from seed many years ago. It’s amazing good fortune to have a nursery do all that work and offer up … Continue reading →

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Occasional Daily Photos/Lotusland

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Denise

The clamshell beach at Lotusland Backed by a low retaining wall dripping with dudleyas and other succulents (Thank you, Kathy!)

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Occasional Daily Photo

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Denise

California poppies and agave at sunrise in an Altadena, California garden designed by Sue Dadd.

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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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Occasional Daily Photo/Geranium maderense ‘Alba’ 3/12/11

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Denise

Any day now. Geranium maderense ‘Alba’ from Annie’s Annuals.

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Occasional Daily Photo/Begonia luxurians 3/4/11

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Denise

The Palm-Leaf Begonia droopily luxuriating in the past couple days of mist and one overnight of a good, soaking rain. Departing visitors from Massachusetts said they never want to vacation in February in Southern California again, that it’s a “different” … Continue reading →

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