Category Archives: pots and containers
Occasional Daily Weather Report 1/6/13
Nighttime temps haven’t dipped into the 30s yet, still the calamintha was somehow dusted with ice crystals yesterday morning Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) always looks chilly The daytime temps, anyway, make for perfect biking weather. My Christmas present to Marty … Continue reading
Posted in Occasional Daily Photo, Occasional Daily Weather Report, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Acacia pravissima, Calamintha nepeta, Echeveria 'Opal Moon', Ein, Papaver commutatum, Pelargonium 'Crocodile', Saxifraga stolonifera 'Maroon Beauty', Tillandsia usneoides, vintage bicycles
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2012’s end
What a beautiful, tragic, maddening, saddening, intoxicating, infuriating, sublime and silly year 2012 was. While I indulge a bittersweet mood with Picasa’s collage editor, I’m wishing you the very, very best for 2013 — heavy on the sublime, light on … Continue reading
Amsterdam houseboat gardens
Can you string together three other words that conjure as much bliss as those? Perhaps you can. But having been obsessed with some garden or other most of my life, and having lived with a boat captain most of my … Continue reading
Posted in driveby gardens, garden travel, MB Maher, photography, pots and containers
Tagged Amsterdam houseboats, Piet Oudolf
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OC Mart Mix needs to host a garden show
Another weekend misspent ostensibly holiday shopping (why pretend?), but in actuality just enjoying plants and landscapes, these courtesy of The OC Mart Mix. Although The OC Mart Mix was patterned after the Ferry Building gourmet marketplace in San Francisco, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden travel, garden visit, plant nurseries, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Agave vilmoriniana, Cornerstone Sonoma, Ferry Building Marketplace San Francisco, Inside Out 365, Kalanchoe thyrsiflora, OC Mart Mix, Rolling Greens Costa Mesa, Senecio mandraliscae, The Late Show, The Late Show Gardens
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plant this book
With apologies to Abbie Hoffman (’60s radical and author of counterculture best-seller Steal this Book) Via Desire to Inspire Literally, sheet mulching for the bookish set. Scanning my book shelves, I just can’t come up with a book to sacrifice. … Continue reading
Posted in design, garden ornament, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Desire to Inspire, sheet mulching, Steal This Book
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how to gift wrap an agave
I had some time late yesterday afternoon so decided to dip my toe into holiday retail. In truth, all I did was look at plants. And even bought a few. For myself. This season of giving is off to a … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden ornament, plant nurseries, Plant Portraits, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Agave 'Blue Flame', Agave 'Blue Glow', Agave desmettiana 'Variegata', Agave guadalajarana, Aloe bainesii, Aloe marlothii, Astelia nervosa, Carex trifida 'Rekohu Sunrise, Chamaerops humilis, Euphorbia milii, Ligularia dentata, mediterranean fan palm, Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum', Roger's Gardens, Variegated Tataki Grass, Yucca 'Bright Star'
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Occasional Daily Photo 11/14/12
I planted this Hibiscus acetosella in a big, salvaged industrial tank in July, replacing some Verbena bonariensis ‘Lollipop’ that finished unexpectedly early, and it grows so much better in the steadier conditions of a container than in the darwinian struggle … Continue reading
Gomphrena decumbens ‘Airy Bachelor Buttons’
A space oddity of a gomphrena, is the Airy Bachelor Buttons. When it grew in my garden, I didn’t know its full name, only that it was a perennial gomphrena in zone 10 with a very lanky habit, that grew … Continue reading
more on garden shelves
There was never any question I’d leave this alone, last seen in this iteration. The nice thing about this arrangement is that it tucks under the eaves and keeps the pots dry during winter. Not a big deal considering our … Continue reading