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I can’t find a primary source for this photo, but it is an amazing example of an indoor garden space.
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Spotted in a neighbor’s garden. I am not quite sure of the ID as there have been many new Mediterranean plants in the recently planted drought-tolerant gardens.
These “shouts” of color certainly catch the eye as you are walking by…or even driving.
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Flowering Now: Nasturtium
In The Garden…New strawberry pots
Historical Garden Books: The garden primer : a practical handbook on the elements of gardening for beginners by Grace Tabor; Gardner Callahan Teall (1910)- 11 in a Series
Interesting Plant: Zaluzianskya villosa “Southern Lilac Drumsticks”
Garden Decor: Garden gate made from re-purposed tools
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2012 Gift Guide: Fiskars 9625 18-Inch PowerGear Bypass Lopper
Interesting Plant: Wood Strawberry/California strawberry (Fragaria californica)
Interesting Plant: Australian/New Zealand Tea Tree (Leptospermum scoparium)
13 of My Favorite Gardening Things for October 2013 – Douglas E. Welch
Begonia Rex (Painted-leaf begonia)
Begonia Rex has an amazing variety of colors, shapes, variegation and more. I am always looking for shade plants and begonia are always a great source of lovely color and variety for those places that simply don’t have enough sun for more showy, flowering plants.
This Begonia Rex Google Image Search will give you a good overview of the variety available.
Looking for more? There is a host of links to Begonia Rex on Pinterest, too.
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Begonia is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Begoniaceae. The genus contains 1,795 different plant species. The Begonias are native to moist subtropical and tropical climates. Some species are commonly grown indoors as ornamental houseplants in cooler climates. In cooler climates some species are cultivated outside in summertime for their bright colourful flowers, which have sepalsbut no petals.
With 1,795 species, Begonia is the fifth-largest angiosperm genus.[1][2] The species are terrestrial (sometimes epiphytic) herbs or undershrubs, and occur in subtropical and tropical moist climates, in South and Central America, Africa, and southern Asia. Terrestrial species in the wild are commonly upright-stemmed, rhizomatous, or tuberous. The plants are monoecious, with unisexual male and female flowers occurring separately on the same plant; the male contains numerous stamens, and the female has a large inferior ovary and two to four branched or twisted stigmas. In most species, the fruit is a winged capsule containing numerous minute seeds, although baccate fruits are also known. The leaves, which are often large and variously marked or variegated, are usually asymmetric (unequal-sided). — Wikipedia
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Tiarella ‘Pink Skyrocket’
Another Pinterest find from Kelhm’s Song Sparrow Farm and Nursery. There are a wide variety of Tiarella’s available from a variety of vendors, it seems.
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Tiarella trifoliata, commonly called threeleaf foamflower,[1] laceflower,[2] or sugar-scoop,[2] is a dicot in the family Saxifragaceae.
It is native to the low to moderate elevation moist forests of western North America, from northern California to Montana and western Canada.
Tiarella trifoliata is a perennial herb that grows in the late spring.
The flowers are bell-shaped, white, solitary from an elongate, leafless panicle. The calyx lobes are 1.5–2.5 mm and petals are 3–4 mm. Basal leaves are 15–80 mm long and up to 120 mm wide, trifoliate or palmately 3- to 5-lobed. Cauline leaves are infrequent and much smaller.[1] — Wikipedia
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Gabion Walls
Gabion walls are an interesting style that can be adapted in many different ways. They are basically wire baskets filled with whatever stone you wish. They can be basic and functional or quite decorative, as well as large, small and everything in-between.
Discovered via Pinterest User Linda Hedderig
More information on gabion walls from Wikipedia…
A gabion (from Italian gabbione meaning “big cage”; from Italian gabbia and Latin cavea meaning “cage”) is a cage, cylinder, or box filled with rocks, concrete, or sometimes sand and soil for use in civil engineering, road building, military applications and landscaping.
For erosion control, caged riprap is used. For dams or in foundation construction, cylindrical metal structures are used. In a military context, earth- or sand-filled gabions are used to protect artillery crews from enemy fire.
Leonardo da Vinci designed a type of gabion called a Corbeille Leonard (“Leonard[o] basket”) for the foundations of the San Marco Castle in Milan.[1]
The most common civil engineering use of gabions was refined and patented by Gaetano Maccaferri in the late 1800s in Sacerno, Emilia Romagna and used to stabilize shorelines, stream banks or slopes against erosion. Other uses include retaining walls, temporary flood walls, silt filtration from runoff, for small or temporary/permanent dams, river training, or channel lining.[2] They may be used to direct the force of a flow of flood water around a vulnerable structure.
Gabions are also used as fish screens on small streams. Gabion stepped weirs are commonly used for river training and flood control; the stepped design enhances the rate of energy dissipation in the channel, and it is particularly well-suited to the construction of gabion stepped weirs.[3]
A gabion wall is a retaining wall made of stacked stone-filled gabions tied together with wire. Gabion walls are usually battered (angled back towards the slope), or stepped back with the slope, rather than stacked vertically.
Gabion baskets have some advantages over loose riprap because of their modularity and ability to be stacked in various shapes; they are also resistant to being washed away by moving water. Gabions also have advantages over more rigid structures, because they can conform to subsidence, dissipate energy from flowing water, and drain freely. Their strength and effectiveness may increase with time in some cases, as silt and vegetation fill the interstitial voids and reinforce the structure. — Wikipedia
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Free Rhaphiolepis Desktop, Tablet and Smartphone Wallpaper for April 2013
Interesting Plant: Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum)
Noted: 5 Ways to Put Fall Leaves to Work in Your Garden via Houzz
Noted: Growing backyard mushrooms, with Michael Judd via A Way to Garden
Video: In the garden…December 2, 2014: A welcome rain in the garden
Crassula plegmatoides
Crassula is an amazingly diverse genus and this Crassula plegmatoides is especially cook looking. This plant seems to be synonymous with Crassula arta, if my research is accurate, and more information can be found under that name. The Pinterest link was originally linked with the “arta” name.
Discovered via Pinterest User Willemijn Derks
Crassula is a large genus of succulent plants containing many species, including the popular jade plant, Crassula ovata. They are native to many parts of the globe, but cultivated varieties originate almost exclusively from species from the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
Crassulas are usually propagated by stem or leaf cuttings. Most cultivated forms will tolerate some small degree of frost, but extremes of cold or heat will cause them to lose foliage and die. — Wikipedia
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Interesting Plant is a series from A Gardener’s Notebook blog and podcast that highlights the most interesting plants I find in my Internet and real-world travels — Douglas
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Video: In the garden…April 18, 2015: Planting potatoes from pantry leftovers
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In the Garden: Cooper’s Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) from September 11 & 12, 2015 [Video]
I discovered this stump and plank garden bench idea on Pinterest from HomeEsthetics.net and it linked over to the complete article, 27 Extremely Useful and Creative DIY Furniture Projects That Will Discreetly Transform Your Decor. There are a bunch of good ideas in that article, but this one caught my eye. I wonder if sitting on the ends might be a bit precarious and cause the seating to twist, but sitting in the middle should work fine. I might try something on a smaller scale here in the garden to see how well it works.
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