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The title of this post has tipped you off that it won’t be a happy one. It might even make you angry. I wrote it just for blog readers – gardeners! Not to rally locals to take sides. I’ve waited a few weeks to calm down and get some perspective, but I’m not totally there yet and I hope that sharing the story will help.
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The common sunflower, Helianthus annuus, is probably one of the widely recognised flowers on Earth.
Native to a range across the US, from Mexico in the south to Canada in the north, the sunflower is now grown virtually everywhere apart from areas of desert and permanent cold. There are numerous cultivated selections, some used for commercial production of sunflower oil...
Screen shot of Madame Walska from Lotusland’s introduction video.
My bucket list of gardens to see was down to just one – the world-famous, one-of-a-kind Lotusland. This month I got to see Lotusland, so today it’s show-and-tell time about this once-private garden in Montecito, Californ...
This spring I was needing plants. Never, I hear you cry! Well, huh, I did. And I looked online for what I needed and was horrified at the cost of them. And while I quite understand the challenges nurseries are up against, they were quite out of my reach.
Except – there were lots for sale at good (comparatively) prices bare rooted. Well, it fe...
Sometimes by the time midsummer arrives in my garden I can take a breath. Other times that breath is more of an exasperated sigh. It’s a rhythm that’s as regular as rain in my garden. Although, rain is far from regular in a Pacific Northwest summer which leaves me hours at the end of hose to critique the state of affairs in my garden.