Monthly Archives: January 2015
some kangaroo paws
Anigozanthos is becoming as common as agapanthus in Southern California, but I’m still a fan. Blooms for months, fine on the dry side, handles full sun, dramatically vertical. You’d think there’d be a huge selection available. But it’s pretty much … Continue reading
Posted in Plant Portraits
Tagged Anigozanthos 'Big Red', Anigozanthos 'Harmony', Anigozanthos 'Little Jean', Anigozanthos 'Yellow Harmony', Argemone munita, Australian plants, Carex trifida 'Rekohu Sunrise, Helicotrichon sempervirens, Lomandra 'Breeze', Lomandra 'Lime Tuff', Macropidia fuliginosa
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Venice Garden & Home Tour suspended for 2015
Last year I mixed up the dates and foolishly missed the Venice Garden & Home Tour. So tonight, tra la la, I’m diligently checking the date early to mark in bold letters on my brand-new 2015 desktop calendar…which is when … Continue reading
Bloom Day January 2015
It wouldn’t do to start the new year off skipping the first Bloom Day, which is technically the 15th of every month, but our host Carol (May Dreams Gardens) doesn’t seem to mind slackers. Helleborus argutifolius, the last plant remaining, … Continue reading
Blue-Podded Blauwschokkers
The modest haul from my little community garden plot yesterday. I’ve got the smallest size plot available, 10X10, but so far it’s just big enough. I am so not a serious grower of edibles. I don’t can, pickle, or freeze. … Continue reading
floral fireworks
Oooh…it looks just like…Calluna vulgaris ! At fireworks shows, I’m the one that keeps up a running commentary of free associations, so this “Flowerwork” by artist Sarah Illenberger for The Plant journal was an instant hit with me. From her … Continue reading
Posted in artists, photography, Plant Portraits
Tagged "Flowerwork", Sarah Illenberger, The Plant journal
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Occasional Daily Weather Report 1/11/15 (the rainy day song)
image found here We all know that famous paean to a rainy day. But there’s another rainy day tribute, done by Sesame Street in the 1980s, that is every bit as much an earworm. Decades later, everyone at our house … Continue reading
Cinema Botanica: Only Lovers Left Alive
If time is an ocean, then 2015 is already bobbing with the detritus of Best-of-2014 lists. I usually love these lists but just don’t have any idea where to look now that there’s so many out there. There was a … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Botanica
Tagged "Vita Sackville'West's Sissinghurst; The Creation of a Garden", Derek Jarman, Detroit, England, Jack White, Jim Jarmusch, Kent, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, photographer Howard Sooley, Prospect Cottage, Sarah Raven, The White Stripes, Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, vampires
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Occasional Daily Weather Report 1/2/15
The thrumming of little portable heaters has been the constant background noise here at home in these brand-new days of the new year. A post-holiday chest cold has descended on the entire household, which has left me fit for nothing … Continue reading