Fall

What am I really doing in the garden in October?

1st Week I'm ready to move some plants around and plant more in a new area of the garden. It's…

14 years ago

An Explosion of Asters

Their colors are so intense, majestic, it is a privilege to be out among the asters and goldenrods and drying…

14 years ago

Morning Stars

On these late October mornings when even a late riser gets up in the dark, make time to go outside…

14 years ago

Marvelous Milkweed, part of a butterfly garden

Collecting milkweed pods I found these milkweed pods on a drive up to Bald Mountain in the Sierra Forest. I…

14 years ago

Invasive plants and impatience in the garden

Arrrgggghh! I did it to myself,...I planted Mexican Primrose in my front beds in my impatience for something to fill…

14 years ago

Ice Wings

Each with their secret and each with their song Narcissus lifting their faces to me Paper-white petals so fragile so…

15 years ago

Design in Nature

In art school, we had an assignment on ‘Design in Nature’, and that, I think, inspired my love of patterns…

15 years ago

Gardening in the Rain

First storm of the Autumn season and what gardener alive doesn't love that? Some people dance and sing in the…

15 years ago

Reblooming Iris ‘Hemstitched’

Rainy, stormy night and day. Big change in the hot weather of the last two weeks. This Iris just rebloomed,…

15 years ago