Category Archives: Occasional Daily Photo
Manly Plants
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
Posted in garden travel, Occasional Daily Photo, Plant Portraits, pots and containers
Tagged Debra Lee Baldwin, Gymnocalycium doppianum, Gymnocalycium multiflorum, Los Angeles Cactus & Succulent Society, Mammillaria decipiens var. camptotricha, Monty Python, Peter Walkowiak, San Diego Cactus and Succulent Society, Sulcorebutia mentosa, Titanopsis calcarea
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Occasional Daily Photos 6/6/11
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
Occasional Daily Photo 6/3/11
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
Occasional Daily Photo 5/25/11
In a few weeks, the leaf margins of this flapjacks kalanchoe have flared a deep red. Which composes quite a picture with Pelargonium ‘Splendide.’
Occasional Daily Photo 5/21/11
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
Occasional Daily Photos/Lotusland
The clamshell beach at Lotusland Backed by a low retaining wall dripping with dudleyas and other succulents (Thank you, Kathy!)
Posted in garden travel, garden visit, Occasional Daily Photo, succulents
Tagged California, Lotusland, Montecito
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Occasional Daily Photo
California poppies and agave at sunrise in an Altadena, California garden designed by Sue Dadd.
Occasional Daily Photo/Poppy Pictorial
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
Occasional Daily Photo/Geranium maderense ‘Alba’ 3/12/11
Any day now. Geranium maderense ‘Alba’ from Annie’s Annuals.
Occasional Daily Photo/Begonia luxurians 3/4/11
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