We happen upon gardening inspiration all the time–an exciting new plant combo spotted on an apartment balcony here, a master gardener’s open garden tour there. We love to share the latest sights that have us seeing new plants and old plants in new ways.
Get your Sputnik on here. Pronounced: Miss-SHOW-ee-a. Hah, I've been saying it wrong all this time. It pays to do a little research--which in fairness, I do. Constantly. But with a catalog of some 34,000 plant and growing, it hard to keep an eye on everything. Of...
I'm switching things up today and sharing my Wednesday Vignette (a blogger's meme hosted by Anna at Flutter & Hum) image here, rather than over on my personal blog, danger garden. Why? It's Garden Blogger's Bloomday -- the day to share images of what's blooming in...
Well designed gardens are known for their sweeps and swaths of the same plant. Onesies are frowned upon -- plant in groups of threes, or better yet five or even seven. But how can I possibly have room for all the cool plants if I do it that way? Thus I’ve resigned...
Do you ever play that game? I hope so, that I'm not just some nutty outlier. I'm going to guess you do, at least once in a while. Though I stand ready and willing to be corrected. Sometimes to make the game more manageable, I try narrowing to just one genus. That...
In my continuing saga, Stranger in a Strange land (kudos to Denise Maher for the pithy observation,) I'm trying to sort out how to think about Sunnylands--apparently a place of world-wide fame. I'm sure I missed the royal treatment generally reserved for visiting...
Initially this post was going to be the 3rd in my "never say never" series. After all I never thought I would be planting Begonias in my garden, and certainly not in my much loved chartreuse Circle Pot. But then I realized it wasn't so much about breaking the Begonia...
Plants surprise me every time. I know they grow and all, but holy moly, the lengths to which they go. When we removed our 12' x 40' section of mass planted juniper, I didn't have an exact plan. Except for the little lower bed which spoke to me right away: Sedum...
Last weekend was the annual migration -- tender plants up from the basement, shade pavilion greenhouse walls down and those plants set free. It really is quite the production, I was fortunate my husband helped move a lot of them. About the 15th trip up the stairs he...
I cannot get over the thrill of plants emerging in spring, tender vibrant leaves bursting forth from earth. And it happens every year. How is nature so smart? Also every year, I'm taken by surprise when I swoon over flowers. I claim I garden primarily for foliage. But...
I'm not sure why, but my mind has been wandering back to a few of the gardens I had the pleasure of visiting during the 2013 Garden Bloggers Fling in San Francisco. This one in particular stands out, it's obviously a garden created by a plant lover, plants are tucked...