Stewartia against a backdrop of plume poppies
Color slowly draining from the species peony
Continued stellar late performance from brugmansia ‘whiskers’
Blooms on the purple fountain grass
Oakleaf hydrangea
Pennisetum with flowers and fall leaf color
Unspecified euphorbia that is green in summer, deep purple in winter, starting to color up
Huge white mushrooms with caps over 6″ across
Seed pods on [...]
Elephant + Chalkboard + French Stuff = Love at First Sight. I really want this chalkboard decal. Reminds me of my first and only trip to France, when I sadly discovered that my school language studies didn’t take me very far in helping me communicate fluently, but I was happy to find I could often [...]
I love plant shopping this time of year. I refuse to give in to the notion that the winter garden has to be dominated by naked trees and bare ground. I have aspirations to make my winter garden something to look forward to, just as I do spring. Evergreens are a staple, when they maintain [...]
I was re-watching Grease 2 last weekend, as I’m wont to do. Fact: that movie is terrific. I noticed a new detail this time around. There is Miss Stephanie Zinone, my first and long running girl crush, in front of a huge stand of yuccas and agaves. Maybe that’s one more way this movie had [...]
Last weekend shopping at Tsugawa’s I found this beauty I never knew existed. Love at first site! A large variegated grass-like form, the blades stiff and curled, reminiscent of a squid agave, to me anyway. I just about wept at the discovery that it’s a hardy, shade tolerant evergreen, a Carex trifida “Rehohu Sunrise.’ I [...]
I’m not usually into whimsical garden features, but this seems appropriate as I look at the week looming ahead. Here’s hoping there’s one more crazy busy week of work, and then things slow down and the a more relaxed holiday pace kicks in.
The ivy monster is in the parking lot at the northeast location of [...]
Work has been winning the tug of war for my time these days. I’m so behind on my internet duties! However, looking back on days where time was not so tight, I was able to walk to work, and was pleasantly surprised by gardens I pass by all the time by car, and never noticed [...]
I’ve always loved magazines. I used to regularly go down to Rich’s Cigar Store, gather up an armload of garden, home, fashion, work magazines, and head straight home for an afternoon of reading. I come from a family of magazine lovers, it’s not unusual when we get together for stacks of magazines to appear on [...]
1. The remains of a bottlebrush flower (Callistemon).
2. The dried flowers of Hops. Golden Hops has one of the best latin names around, it’s almost musical to say it – Humulus lupulus aureus.
3. Disporum cantoniense ‘night heron’ – a show off plant, ridiculously beautiful and elegant from the time it pokes it’s head out [...]
It’s a shame I don’t have an ID on this woodland peony, it’s such a good plant. This year I fenced it off so the dogs couldn’t trample it and got to watch the seedpods mature.
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