May your explosions be of the quiet variety. Quiet beauty. I'm for that. And so are the animals. Have a Happy Fourth. Cheers
happy Fourth of July 2018
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Glacium flavum: Articles from The Editorial Side
a quick hello
Greetings gardeners. I'm giving the gray matter a wee rest this week, so I don't have a story for you. I know, hard to believe. Instead, I thought I'd share a few pictures of plants behaving themselves in the late summer garden. Have you noticed when you focus...
plants that go bang, for you buck
I can't tell you how many times people have gone gaga over the lowest priced plant in the garden. Isn't it funny, how you can moon over some rare and expensive plant. And then you finally add it--just to have peeps push past to rave about some inexpensive annual...
surprise: bigger and bolder yet again
I hope everyone is having fun in garden this week. There's so much happening. I'm surprised, yet again, that it's all coming back, bigger and bolder. The Eryngium agavifolium above is going nuts, doing it's best to embarrass its buddy, the Nolina. If this keeps up,...
What to My Wondering Eyes Should Appear
This is my first full season in our Flamingo Park Gardens, and I can’t wait to get reacquainted with the plants. Oh sure, I put a lot of them in myself, and I have a spreadsheet, but I haven’t entirely keep track of what is where. At my Alameda (RIP) Gardens, I named...