How much fun is it to say Banana Canna. Right up there with Sambucus. This post has nothing to do with Sambucus--aside from the delight in saying its name. Sambucus was my first deliberate Latin plant name utterance. Megan taught me when she urged me to buy a...
How about you? I've had so many great plants that give me cheap thrills and chills. Plants that were easy and relatively inexpensive. Why then, do I not have said plants growing out there right now? Last week, I showed you my pot ghetto, and honestly, what's the big...
Oh boy, talk about a good thing, and perchance too much of it? The jury is out. But if year one is any indication, Flamingo Park, we may have a problem. These plants were gifts from Ron Wagner, a guy who packed his bag, and I mean singular bag, and headed for...
I've got it. How about you? What's are you pining for? My problem is remembering what I want in the face of so many temptations when I actually do make it to the nursery. I'm dazzled by the abundance. And, of course, the pesky brain injury, blah blah, no help there...
I'm hearing a lot of grumbling over how awful our gardens are looking. I share your grumblings. So I thought I'd go on patrol for things that aren't entirely terrible. Have you noticed how a tight shot shows what you might otherwise have missed? I wholeheartedly...
Just a bit over a year ago, I had the vision of someday removing the giant swath of Juniper we inherited with our Flamingo Park House. The "Sea of Juniper" was some 12' wide and 40' long. Apparently, back in the 60s and 70s, people got the notion that mass planting...
Oh sure, there's a lot going wrong with this dog-forsaken weather. But there's also quite a bit going right. So today, I'm looking at the garden as half full. (Even if all the rage is warning us we're due for a 9.2 earthquake that will swallow up 700 miles of the...
There's nothing like sorting through old garden photos to kickstart a lust list. I meant to be working on my get-it-all-organized project, but I got distracted with what I saw. This must help with my design plans, yes? to know what plants I want. Then I'll have to...