Garden Vocabulary: Deciduous
This Garden Vocabulary series seeks to introduce and explain to you — and in many cases, myself — words and terms associated with gardening. Please let me know if there are any Continue Reading
Merry Christmas Photo
via Instagram Read more on this topic: Photo: Eucalyptus bark Don’t dump that Christmas Tree! Video: A Welch Family Christmas 2012 Audio: 5th Annual Live Reading of A Christmas Carol
Video: A Welch Family Christmas 2012
A short glimpse into our Christmas home (2 min) Can’t see the video able? Watch “A Welch Family Christmas” on YouTube Music: “Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies”, Kevin MacLeod, Continue Reading
Photos: First Paperwhite 2012
Working out in the garden today I came across this First Paperwhite of 2012! According to my handy-dandy, Google Calendar gardening journal, this is just 2 days after I spotted Continue Reading
Books by Douglas E. Welch – Gift Them Directly to Your Friends and Family via Kindle
From A Gardener’s Notebook: A collection of essays What is there about a garden? Gardens can be beautiful or productive and are often both at the same time. Every gardener Continue Reading
Elsewhere: Botanical designer blooms in Highland Park from The Eastsider LA
Botanical designer blooms in Highland Park from The Eastsider LA Story by Cynthia Greenburg — Photos by Martha Benedict “The big aha was in NY,” Valerie Jurado says. It was there the Continue Reading
What Douglas Dug…Show 008 – Garden markers, blue pumpkins, bed frame gates and more!
Our seventh episode of What Douglas Dug…, our regular review show of neat gardening items I have found in my Internet travels. In this episode, A Cheap cold frame, garden sculpture and more! Continue Reading
Photo: Liquidambar Color for Fall and Winter
Read more on this topic: Photos: Liquidambar trees provide a small touch of Fall color for Los Angeles A little more Fall color here in Southern California Project: Roof Continue Reading
Frost Warning Tonight – Yes, here in Los Angeles?!
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 154 PM PST WED DEC 19 2012 …SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHLAND OVERNIGHT… THERE WILL BE ANOTHER ROUND OF SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES OVERNIGHT Continue Reading
Photo: Sunset New Western Garden Book, 4th Edition, 1979
I saw this at a client’s house and had to grab a quick shot. I actually thought it was even older, but 1979 still makes it over 30 years old. Continue Reading