With several days above 80 degrees this week, it’s feeling like spring. And surveying the garden, it’s looking like spring too. Lest any of you in the lands of blizzards and crazy snowfall think I’m gloating, let me show you… Read More »almost spring
We begin this month’s episode of Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day with the rare lavender-flowered California coffeeberry. Well, actually, there is no such thing and I’m making it up, using one of the older trick in the gardener’s book. The flowers… Read More »may(bloom)day
The morning opened overcast, foggy, even. You couldn’t ask for a more appropriate day to visit the mysteries of the area the locals call The Tunnels. The location is currently closed to public access until a plan for trails and… Read More »into the tunnels
After posting on Nasher Sculpture Center’s Sculpture garden–very much a rarefied 1%er’s kind of garden–it’s really comforting to return to the garden I call home. It’s April 15 in this 99%er’s garden, and time for this months Garden Blogger’s Bloom… Read More »more than last month
Happy January Bloom Day, folks! Lots of pictures this month. Okay I cheated, with some multiples of the same plant mixed in. But a big dose of perky orange in the dead of winter seemed morally acceptable. I guess it’s… Read More »january bloomday
Things have slowed down. It’s November for godsakes. But stuff keeps happening in the garden. Probably the most remarkable thing blooming is this, a variegated mutation of Salvia divinorum. I noticed the variegation a few months ago and will try… Read More »not for sale to minors (november bloom day)
This santolina sums up the state of the garden pretty well. Peak flowering was in the past or hasn’t started up yet, but I’m enjoying where it’s at right now. This particular plant bloomed four months ago, but I liked… Read More »october bloom day
College Prowler, the website that provides crowdsource ratings of colleges and universities by important factors like campus dining, academics, and the guys who go there, recently also ranks the schools for “weather.” (Really, we’d call that “climate,” wouldn’t we?) Of… Read More »staycation 2011
My part of town got yarn-bombed earlier this year. Guerrilla knitter Kevin Gauge (not his real name) has modified five stop signs around the Clairemont neighborhood of San Diego, adding knitted stems and a pair of leaves to the support… Read More »it’s da (yarn) bomb
Yellow, white, blue, lavender, pink…The front garden is crazy strident right now and I like it. The floral chaos is concentrated along the sidewalk in front of the house, where the plants present themselves at eye-level for anyone walking by.… Read More »walk on by