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As always, let me know what types of interesting items you would like to see and I will keep an eye out for them especially. — Douglas Garden / Grass and Continue Reading
Here is a playlist of all the videos I produced in May 2013. You can find all my past videos on my YouTube Channel. If you enjoy a video, please Continue Reading
Garden Alphabet: Datura from Santa Cruz Island Granted, Datura (Jimson Weed) isn’t something that everyone would want or have in their garden, but I have always found its flowers to be Continue Reading
Your hydrangeas don’t have to be blue to be pretty. Here are some beautiful ones from a friend’s garden. Watch all the past “In the garden…” videos in this Continue Reading
The crows were having quite the party in the birdbath this morning. They are often in the neighborhood, but I usually don’t see them in the garden itself. Watch all Continue Reading
Gardens are ephemeral things. Left to their own devices, they can quickly be subsumed by nature once again with natives and weeds running wild through the once-carefully managed beds. In Continue Reading
“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 a pack of plants I Continue Reading
In the neighborhood…Persimmons, pomegranates, figs and grapes Spring has spring here in the neighborhood and in one 1.5 mile walk around the neighborhood we saw persimmons, pomegranates, figs and grapes Continue Reading
Interesting Plant: Streptocarpus ‘Harlequin Blue’ Interesting Plant: Streptocarpus ‘Harlequin Blue’ There are some plants that just look “alien” or painted or Photoshopped, but I have been assured — via many mentions in Continue Reading