Category Archives: pots and containers
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
Santolina ‘Lemon Fizz’
There’s no space in the garden for this wonderful santolina currently, so pots it is. Rationale No. 1: Best to be prepared in case a plant in the garden should…die… (and open up a spot for one or both). Rationale … 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.’
Laurus nobilis ‘Aureus’
A potted bay tree is one of those timeless mediterranean garden features, like boxwood hedging, crunchy gravel underfoot, or urns planted with agaves. Image found here. Its leaves are useful for cooking just about anything that simmers. Laurus nobilis becomes … Continue reading
Summer Containers Aren’t Just For Annuals
I would’ve never been able to get this angelica to bloom in the garden. Trust me, I’ve tried. Rich soil, consistent moisture, strategic sun exposure, these crucial conditions could only be offered in a container. Angelica stricta ‘Purpurea’ was planted … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelica stricta 'Purpurea', biennials
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Asarina
Asarina scandens. What a kewpie-doll mouth. I love watching how the blooms trace along the ropey stems, scrolling intriguing outlines. See the letter “E”? A trove of inspiration for a jewelry designer. A galloping vine, wending its way this summer … Continue reading
Wispy Spring Annuals
Along with the linaria I mentioned recently, some of the other wispy spring annuals I’ve been experimenting with in pots are this Anagallis. A. monelii, the Blue Pimpernel. And a little nemesia with long spurs, N. cheiranthus ‘Shooting Stars.’ The … Continue reading
Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch- Cherry Bomb
Anyone else curious enough about “The Runaways” movie last year, based on the eponymous, all-girl, Los Angeles-based band of the mid ’70s, to see it in a theater? Cherry Bomb was their big radio hit, Joan Jett the post-Runaways star. … Continue reading
More GC Open Days/Pasadena
More on the Pasadena gardens on the Garden Conservancy Open Days, April 25, 2010. This was my first tour of Pasadena gardens. I knew the gardens would be large, stately, formal. What I wasn’t prepared for was their scale. The … Continue reading