Photo: Sempervivum via #instagram
A photo from the garden this morning Previously in my Instagram Photos… Related posts: Video: What Douglas Dug…Show 009 – March 11, 2013 – Photoshopped flowers, carrots, rosemary topiaries Continue Reading
Noted: Great Design Plant: Low-Maintenance Allium Cernuum via Houzz
Great Design Plant: Low-Maintenance Allium Cernuum via Houzz When the weather cools in fall, it’s time to plant spring-blooming bulbs. Most of the familiar ones are from faraway places: tulips Continue Reading
Noted: Great Design Plant: Encelia Californica via Houzz
Great Design Plant: Encelia Californica via Houzz Landscape California brittlebush (Encelia californica) is a must for low-water habitat gardens. This vigorous and dependable subshrub shows off its exuberant mass Continue Reading
Video: In the neighborhood…Liquidambar stryaciflua in Fall Colors
Check out my collection of gardening essays, “From A Gardener’s Notebook” now available as a Kindle eBook. (You don’t need a Kindle to read it, though. Read it on your PC, Continue Reading
Historical Book: The amateur gardener’s calendar by Mrs. Loudon, 1871
I was introduced to this book via a post on Google+ by Eugbug’s DIY Den and immediately searched to see if it was available online. A quick Google search turned up Continue Reading
Noted: Fall Is Calling: What to Do in Your October Garden via Houzz
Fall Is Calling: What to Do in Your October Garden via Houzz Traditional Landscape I like having options — from which flavor of tea to drink after lunch to Continue Reading
Video: In the garden…Seeing Differently #1: Watering in Slow Motion
My new iPhone 6 lets us “see differently” Watering our garden at 120 frames per second. Check out my collection of gardening essays, “From A Gardener’s Notebook” now available as Continue Reading
Interesting Plant: Carex flagellifera ‘Toffee Twist’
Carex flagellifera ‘Toffee Twist’ Discovered via Pinterest User Betty Hawthorne Valued for its dramatic foliage display of slender, iridescent bronze leaves with an elegant sweeping, trailing habit. A great filler to Continue Reading
Noted: How to Give Your Garden More Soul via Houzz
How to Give Your Garden More Soul via Houzz Traditional Landscape by Chicago Design-Build Firms Aquascape Inc. don’t want to start an argument, but that’s inevitable when you talk Continue Reading
Noted: How to Design a Calming Minimalist Garden via Houzz
How to Design a Calming Minimalist Garden via Houzz Contemporary Landscape by Encinitas Landscape Architects & Landscape Designers debora carl landscape design Minimalism in the garden should should start Continue Reading