Tag Archives: Senecio medley-woodii
small taste of summer
For summer, valerian and nicotiana light up what’s mainly a planting of shrubs and succulents the remaining seasons. As much as I love intoxicating displays of summer abundance, this little garden has to remain sober and on duty all 12 … Continue reading
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Tagged Agave filifera ssp. schidigera 'Shira ito no Ohi', Angelica stricta 'Purpurea', Baltic parsley Cenolophium denudatum, Eryngium pandanifolium, Pennisetum 'Karley Rose', Phlomis 'Sunningdale Gold', Plectranthus argentatus, Puya laxa, salvia, Senecio medley-woodii, Senecio palmeri, Solanum valerianum 'Navidad Jalisco'
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Bloom Day July 2016
I’m going to try a systematic approach, so bear with me. Right outside the office, the planting is getting some height from the bog sage, kangaroo paws, and Pennisetum ‘Skyrocket’ showing a few blooms way in the back. Using the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bocconia frutescens, Bulbine 'Athena Compact Orange', Calamagrostis brachytricha, Calamintha 'Montrose White', Chrysocephalum aplicata, Elymus 'Canyon Prince', Glaucium grandiflorum, Hazardia detonsa, Marrubium supinum, Melinus nerviglumis, Origanum 'Rosenkuppel', Pennisetum 'Fairy Tails', Penstemon 'Enor', Puya laxa, Salvia uliginosa, Sedum 'Blue Pearl', Senecio medley-woodii, Verbena bonariensis
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Greenlee Meadow Grass Fall Festival 2015
Fall has been stupidly busy, but I’m so glad I made it out to Pomona last Saturday for John Greenlee’s Meadow Grass Fall Festival, the second year it’s been held. Let’s cross our grubby, fall-planting fingers and hope for another … Continue reading
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Tagged ' Dalea capitata 'Sierra Gold, ' Eremophila glabra 'Mingenew Gold', ' Yucca pallida, Acacia redolens 'Desert Carpet, Agave gypsophila 'Ivory Curls', Bouteloua gracilis 'Blonde Ambition', Cupressus guadalupensis, Daylily 'Salmon Sheen', Euphorbia antisyphilitica, Gossypium harknessii, Grant Lee Stevenson, Greenwood Garden, John Greenlee, John Schoustra, Melampodium leucanthum, Mountain States Wholesale Nursery, Pennisetum spathiolatum, Poa cita, Portulacaria afra minima, Scutellaria sp. 'Starfire, Senecio medley-woodii, The American Meadow Garden, Wendy Proud, Yucca rupicola
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bug report & EOMV
“None of the ants previously seen by man were more than an inch in length – most considerably under that size. But even the most minute of them have an instinct and talent for industry, social organization, and savagery that … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, creatures, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Adenanthos sericeus, Agave vilmoriniana 'Stained Glass', Aloe 'Rooikappie', Aloe capitata var. quartzicola., Aloe elgonica, Argentine ants, Artemisia pycnocephala 'David's Choice, Cotinis mutabilis, Crassula alba var. parvisepala, Cussonia gamtoosensis, end of month view, Eucalyptus 'Moon Lagoon', Euphorbia 'Lime Wall', Grevillea 'Moonlight', Linepithema humile, Senecio medley-woodii
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Bloom Day December 2012
The last Bloom Day in 2012 — I’m keeping this one short, but if interested you can use the search function on the blog for more information/photos on any of these. Helleborus argutifolius Perlargonium echinatum Gerbera ‘Drakensberg Carmine’ Senecio medley-woodii, … Continue reading
Hortus Chaotica
So many contradictions, so little time. A love of spare, austere, sculptural plantings. Yet every summer I still invite the circus to camp in my garden.
Warming Up
Edging into the high 80’s the next couple days here at the coast, about a mile from the Pacific, in the 90’s for the inland cities like Pasadena. The castor bean plant and Salvia canariensis are reveling in the heat, … Continue reading
Another Seattle Export?
The usual state of affairs, I’m told, is Southern Californian hordes invading the Pacific Northwest, or at least such was the case before the great real estate unraveling after 2008. This past week proves that Los Angeles can stay home … Continue reading
Silver&Gold
(I’m describing the slow accretion of the colors selected to surround me, practiced by me, a nonprofessional. An inattentive process of anti-design, if you will.) It starts out with silver. Just silver. Silver came home first, in the form of … Continue reading