Tag Archives: Acacia baileyana ‘Purpurea’
Bloom Day October 2016
This October the garden has already turned its back on summer, and all but the grasses have been cut back. I’m curious to find out how long the summer grasses can be supporting players to the winter-blooming aloes before the … Continue reading
Posted in Bloom Day, succulents
Tagged ' Amicia zygomeris, Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea', Aloe 'Cynthia Giddy', Aloe 'Kujo', Aloe 'Rooikappie', Aloe scobinifolia, Grevillea 'Moonlight', Justicia sericea' Inca Queen', Lomandra 'Breeze', Pennisetum 'Fairy Tails', Phormium 'Black Rage', Plectranthus neochilus, Ricinus communis 'New Zealand Purple', Solanum sp. 'Navidad Jalisco'
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some upcoming events this weekend 4/30-5/1/16
Tillandsias can perch just about anywhere with the right conditions, including on other plants. This weekend brings the Mary Lou Heard Memorial Garden tour. I don’t think I’ll be able to make it, so if you go, link back here … Continue reading
more on the east fence
I might as well continue with the east fence, the dark blue/black of which can be seen in the distance looking under the pergola. The pots shown yesterday are on the brick patio to the left of the cypresses, and … Continue reading
small garden, tough choices
“I reckon there are 5 seasons. There’s an early spring, which I call Sprinter…a Sprummer which comes after that for 2 months…There’s a long summer…a short autumn, a short winter – both just two months long, and then you’re back … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, clippings, design, journal, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea', Agapanthus 'Gold Strike', Agave sisalana ‘Variegata’, Aristida purpurea, Ballota pseudodictamnus, Brachysema praemorsum 'Bronze Butterfly', Cistus 'Snowfire', Cordyline banksii 'Electric Star', Glaucium grandiflorum, Gomphrena 'Fireworks', Hymenolepis parviflora, Lavandula minutoli, Leucadendron 'Safari Goldstrike', Lomandra 'Breeze', Lomandra 'Lime Tuff', Marrubium bourgaei ‘All Hallows Green’, Nepeta ‘Purple Haze’, Pedilanthus bracteatus, Verbascum bombyciferum
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Bloom Day June 2014
Bloom Day on Father’s Day? Really? I figured this out about 7 o’clock last night, but by then I was too sun-blasted to muster a post. Marty wanted his day spent at a local Irish fair. Guinness and “trad” music … Continue reading
Posted in Bloom Day
Tagged Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea', Agastache 'Blue Blazes', Agastache 'Blue Fortune', Anigozanthos 'Yellow Gem', Anthericum saundersiae 'Variegata', Atriplex hortensis, Baltic parsley Cenolophium denudatum, Crithmum maritimum, Dalea purpurea, Gaillardia 'Oranges & Lemons', Gomphrena 'Fireworks', Lavandula multifida, Nepeta 'Walker's Low', nicotiana, Pelargonium echinatum, Plectranthus neochilus
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colors of Acacia baileyana ‘Purpurea’
“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.” — John Ruskin Such solemn earnestness was a hallmark of the Victorian age and much lampooned, but you won’t … Continue reading
so cold that plants are turning purple
The cold weather is coaxing some fine seasonal coloration out of plants, especially those whose names hint to a destiny with the color purple anyway. Acacia baileyana ‘Purpurea’ deeply plummy mid ribs on the leaves of Melianthus ‘Purple Haze’ Yucca … Continue reading
Posted in Occasional Daily Weather Report, plant nurseries, Plant Portraits, succulents
Tagged "Umbrella Group: why not make room for a Schefflera?" by Robbie Blackhall-Miles, Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea', Crug Farm Plants, hardy scheffleras, Melianthus 'Purple Haze', Yucca aloifolia 'Purpurea'
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Occasional Daily Weather Report 10/9/11
After last week’s day of rain, the sidewalk’s warming up again. High 70’s and low 80’s for the next few days. (A favorite spot to warm up and also cuff the corgi’s tail-less bottom as he passes through the feline … Continue reading