Photo: Azalea Bloom
Today in the garden… Related posts: Top Gardeners Notebook Posts for 2010 Photos: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day at May Dream Gardens Yellow Roses…in the neighborhood Photo: “Bewitched” Rose Garden Alphabet: Continue Reading
Video: Container Garden Update 20: Slow going and some frugal lettuce
The containers are slowing down as the hot days arrive here in Los Angeles. A lettuce root from the store provides both lunch and a new start in a container. Continue Reading
Books on Hold: The Drunken Botanist : The plants that create the world’s great drinks
Books on Hold is a blog series dedicated to books I have seen in passing and requested from my local library. See more in the series at the end of this Continue Reading
Garden Inventory: Lantana
Garden Inventory is a series where I begin an inventory of all the plants and trees in my garden. Along with some of my own pictures, I will link to various Continue Reading
Garden Budget: Plants and Supplies for March 2013
I have decided to start spending a certain budget each month on improving the garden (~$100) and then blogging about it here on A Gardener’s Notebook. March starts the first Continue Reading
Garden Alphabet: Freesia
Freesia We have two types of Freesia that arrive in the garden each Spring. They don’t get quite enough sun and so they are quite “floppy”, but they return every Continue Reading
Video: In the garden…March 21, 2013 – Planting new shade plants and discovering a “pond” in the garden
“In the garden…” is a series for A Gardener’s Notebook highlighting what is happening in my garden, my friend’s gardens and California gardens throughout the seasons. I plant 2 Aucuba, a Schefflera and Continue Reading
Garden History: Your victory garden counts more than ever!
It isn’t just during times of war that your Victory Garden counts. I wish that they had never gone out of style. Once food rationing finished and food was freely Continue Reading
5 Years Ago: Photos: Lake Balboa Cherry Trees 2008
I try to get out to to shoot pictures of the Japanese Cherry Trees at Lake Balboa, but didn’t make it out this year, unfortunately. Still, Timehop is great at Continue Reading
Garden Decor: Potting bench from old door
Potting bench from old door I am always on the look out for a door like this — complete with the windows. I have one older door in the garden Continue Reading