1st Week I'm ready to move some plants around and plant more in a new area of the garden. It's…
When landscaping in a fire risk area, like the Central Sierra foothills of California, you normally have to keep a…
Their colors are so intense, majestic, it is a privilege to be out among the asters and goldenrods and drying…
On these late October mornings when even a late riser gets up in the dark, make time to go outside…
Collecting milkweed pods I found these milkweed pods on a drive up to Bald Mountain in the Sierra Forest. I…
Arrrgggghh! I did it to myself,...I planted Mexican Primrose in my front beds in my impatience for something to fill…
Each with their secret and each with their song Narcissus lifting their faces to me Paper-white petals so fragile so…
In art school, we had an assignment on ‘Design in Nature’, and that, I think, inspired my love of patterns…
First storm of the Autumn season and what gardener alive doesn't love that? Some people dance and sing in the…
Rainy, stormy night and day. Big change in the hot weather of the last two weeks. This Iris just rebloomed,…
Oh, red berries, redberries! Hollyleaf Redberry Rhamnus ilicifolia, a plant new to me! A new native plant right here on…
These Favorites are 'Gardening Links' I use often, some are local and some are websites anyone can use to get…
"What is that wonderful smell", guests exclaim! So spicy and fragrant, Common Madia, Madia elegans and Rosinweed, Calycadenia truncata are…
The female praying mantis turns to the male and says, " after sex but before I kill you, I'll need…
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What I'm really doing in the garden today? Coffee, then raking paths, clipping faded flowers. Deep watering the new-ish rock…
Swallowtail on the buddleia this morning. Great, got a good focus, even though I was holding the camera way overhead.
Three pots of lilies, with faded blooms, given to me by a friend in May 2009, were planted on the…