Aloe pluridens with kangaroo paws — photos by MB Maher
I got an unexpected peek at my Long Beach, Calif. garden courtesy of the watering crew. It does my heart good to see it in fair shape for July, even if a little on the wild side. So many kangaroo paws!
Lots of talismans for me in this little garden — Euphorbia canariensis bought at the 2014 closing sale of downtown Hotel Figueroa which opened as a women-only hostel in 1926, now run by the Hyatt
yellow blooms way in the back, could that be Aloe lukeana? If so, wow! I didn’t think it was mature enough for so many blooms. Marty rebuilt that garden shed for me, originally from Smith & Hawken which closed in 2009
a lily making a surprise appearanceAgave ‘Cornelius’ was close to death in the ground, still in recovery mode in a pot (on the stool) but looking OK (or is that ‘Frostbite’?!)
The little ceramic Buddha mask was found nailed to a telephone pole in San Francisco decades ago. For whatever reason, the masks mysteriously appeared all over town.
while I’m away the creeping fig is making a resurgence on the back wall, overrunning the bromeliads — admittedly the juvenile growth is very cool but it doesn’t get to stay.hard to tell but I truly have been thinning out all the accumulated stuff. We’re talking going back to 1989!
The LA County glass light shades began to be phased out in the 1950s
