Garden Alphabet: Echinacea
Garden Alphabet: Echinacea I haven’t had much success growing Echinacea here in my garden, but I plan to keep trying. I love the large flowers and their lovely purple color. Continue Reading
Garden Vocabulary: Annual
In most gardens, annual plants are used to dress up flower beds and containers during the height of the growing season. Those gardeners in temperate zones tend to rely on Continue Reading
Interesting Plant: Passiflora (Passion flower)
Interesting Plant: Passiflora (Passion flower) Every time I pass a passiflora vine in the neighborhood I stop and stare. I am quite taken with the lovely, and to me, quite alien Continue Reading
Elsewhere: Cooper’s Hawk in the birdbath – my video and photos from Animalbytes.net
Update: January 3, 2014: I captured some new Cooper’s Hawk footage yesterday. You can see it in this video, Interesting interaction between Cooper’s Hawk and Fox Squirrel (Accipter cooperii and Sciurus Continue Reading
Video: In the garden…December 21, 2013: Harvesting carrots and lettuce from the containers
Time to pull the carrots from their pot along with some of the self-seeded lettuce. They made for a tasty dinner this evening. Even threw in a few nasturtium leaves Continue Reading
Garden Alphabet: Camellia
Garden Alphabet: Camellia They only camellia bloomed for only the second time in 17 years, so I made sure to grab some photos. Most modern camellia are big, blousy things, Continue Reading
Gift Guide 2013: Yes, You Can! And Freeze and Dry It, Too: The Modern Step-By-Step Guide to Preserving Food
Yes, You Can! And Freeze and Dry It, Too: The Modern Step-By-Step Guide to Preserving Food I heard about this book from the writer, who is a regular attendee of Continue Reading
Gift Guide 2013: Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History
Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History Who would have thought that plants could be so important to world history, but from the rubber plant to the quinine Continue Reading
Gift Guide 2013: Moleskeine Journals
Moleskeine Journals of all sorts No matter how much technology i have at hand, I always find myself falling back on my paper journal as a data gathering, thought-provoking and Continue Reading
Video: In the garden…December 7, 2013: Rain, camellia, paperwhites and more!
We take advantage of a break in the rain (Yea, Rain!) to show off the seldom blooming camellia, our yearly paperwhites and the progress of the container in the front Continue Reading