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Posted on June 30, 2015 by Douglas E. Welch

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Dress up your phone with this hibiscus flower cover and more!

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Douglas E. Welch

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Garden Alphabet: Hollyhock (Alcea)

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Douglas E. Welch

Garden Alphabet: Hollyhock (Alcea)

Hollyhock (Alcea)

Alcea, commonly known as hollyhocks, is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae.^[1] They are native to Asia and Europe.^[1]

Hollyhocks are annual, biennial, or perennial plants usually taking an erect, unbranched form. The herbage usually has a coating of star-shaped hairs. The leaf blades are often lobed or toothed, and are borne on long petioles. The flowers may be solitary or arranged in fascicles or racemes. The notched petals are usually over three centimeters wide and may be pink, white, purple, or yellow. The fruit is a schizocarp, a dry disc divided into over 15 sections that contain seeds.^[1]— Wikipedia

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Winner of Parrot Flower Power – Linda J from Los Angeles, CA

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Douglas E. Welch

It randomly happened that one of the winners of our Parrot Flower Power giveaway was right here in Los Angeles. Linda stopped by to pick up her Flower Power today and was going to put it to use at her new house right here in the San Fernando Valley! Congratulations to Linda. I hope you have a great experience with the Flower Power.

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Video: Morning Glory (Convolvulus) – A Minute in the Garden 19 from A Gardener’s Notebook

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Douglas E. Welch

A Minute in the Garden: A series from A Gardener’s Notebook

The next in a series of garden minutes from the neighborhood.

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Photo: Grapes growing in the neighborhood

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Douglas E. Welch

The neighborhood grape crop is looking good. I know of at least 3 grapevine plantings along our walk and they all look like this.

Products: Lego Birds Kits from Amazon.com

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Douglas E. Welch

We had a outdoors viewing of The Lego Movie at a friend’s house last weekend and during that we all chipped in to build a tall ship lego kit. This spurred my friend to look into more legos and she found these great bird and animal kits from Lego that she hadn’t previously be aware of. She posted some photos of the Birds Kit that she built and I wanted to share these kits with you for the young naturalists in your life. I think this is a great way of combining a little high-tech with some, much-needed, high-touch.

Garden Alphabet: Agapanthus (Lily of the Nile)

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Douglas E. Welch

Agapanthus (Lily of the Nile)

Agapanthus /ˌæɡəˈpænθəs/^[2] is the only genus in the subfamily Agapanthoideae of the flowering plant family Amaryllidaceae.^[3] The family is in the monocot order Asparagales. The name is derived from scientific Greek: αγάπη (agape) = love, άνθος (anthos) = flower.

Some species of Agapanthus are commonly known as lily of the Nile (or African lily in the UK), although they are not lilies and all of thespecies are native to Southern Africa (South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique) though some have become naturalized in scattered places around the world (Australia, Great Britain, Mexico, Ethiopia, Jamaica, etc.).^[1]^[4]

Species boundaries are not clear in the genus, and in spite of having been intensively studied, the number of species recognized by different authorities varies from 6 to 10. The type species for the genus is Agapanthus africanus.^[5] A great many hybrids and cultivars have been produced and they are cultivated throughout warm areas of the world, and can especially be spotted all throughout NorthernCalifornia.^[6] Most of these were described in a book published in 2004.^[7]— Wikipedia

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Photo: Orchids Purple and White

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Douglas E. Welch

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Video: In the garden…June 19, 2015: More tomatoes in containers from A Gardener’s Notebook

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Douglas E. Welch

In the garden…June 19, 2015: More tomatoes in containers from A Gardener’s Notebook

My wife wants tomatoes and this seems a perfect reason to start refurbishing the container garden along the driveway..

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