Garden

Yesterday I headed out to Vacaville ... just 41 minutes from my house, or so said Miss Google Maps. I love our valley and our farmlands. Even our brown hills. But, I'm also happy for my air conditioned car! So, I'm driving along, and take the Ch...

This weekend (May 4 and 5, 2013) is the Sacramento Cactus & Succulent Society’s 53rd annual show and sale. It is being held at Shepard Garden and Arts Center adjacent to McKinley Park. For more information, go to the SCSS web site. To whet your a...

Bloggers are famous for only portraying the best parts of their lives online. Look around the web and you'll see perfectly decorated homes, amazing meals that took only seconds to prepare, and ingenious crafts that the entire family delights in c...

One of 675 rosebushes is all abloom at the Capitol Park garden.The past decade has flown by at the World Peace Rose Garden at Capitol Park. "It's totally amazing," said co-founder Sylvia Villalobos. "It seems like we did the dedication not th...

A few days ago I showed you some cacti that are currently in bloom at the UC Botanical Garden in Berkeley. While my cactus collection is nothing compared to theirs, this is the season for cactus flowers so if you have even just a dozen plants, chances ...

Hi Friends, Have you ever heard about something that was SO exciting and SO important that you agonized over the right way to present it? That's how I feel about this ebook bundle deal. There's so much wisdom in these ebooks (I own many and paid full p...

A few years ago we had a tower of jewels (Echium wildpretii) blooming in our front yard. It produced copious amounts of seeds, and two of those seedlings are growing outside our front yard fence. Since this is their 2nd year, I expected them to bloom t...

After I was done at the UC Botanical spring plant sale, I walked over to my favorite areas in the garden, the New World Desert and the Southern African Collection. Somebody had told me that the puyas were in bloom. “In bloom” turned out to be a bi...

Strolling through the five acres of botanical wonders at Maple Leaf Gardens in Penryn last week, a ladybug flew into my mouth. I’m not surprised. This estate is jaw droppingly beautiful. I literally walked around with my mouth agape, pleasantly shock...

Last Saturday I did something I’d been wanting to do for a long time: I attended a plant sale at UC Botanical Garden in Berkeley. As an on-again, off-again member and somewhat regular visitor (if once or twice a year counts) I’m fairly familiar wit...