Read Between the Limes

My neighborhood is having their 2nd annual garden tour on September 17th, and lucky me, I've been asked to participate. As much as I might be stressing about how "unconventional" my garden is, I'm also very excited to share some of my passions with co...

I love when I find a plant or bulb resource that just blows my mind. Schreiner's Iris Gardens in Oregon is my new infatuation, and as you can tell by their packaging- they have plant lovers in mind! After we returned from a trip to Yosemite a couple w...

Tonight we collected artichoke seeds. The beautiful blooms that provided us with food in the spring, and became a bee's playground in the early summer are now beautiful dried flower heads. With something so beautiful I'm ashamed to admit how I harves...

This week kiddo and I came up with this fabulous idea of making stepping stones for our garden since she is constantly getting slivers on her feet from the bark that is covering the pathways in our vegetable garden. What we ended up with: the classic ...

Recently I was lucky enough to get my hands on a review copy of Fine Gardening's 'Plant Combinations: 82 proven plans for any situation.' One of the things I love most about Fine Gardening magazine is their full color photos, and this one is no except...

A few weeks ago we visited The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens located in San Marino, CA. I'm pretty sure I took enough pictures here for AT LEAST five blog posts, but I'll start with the Helen and Peter Bing Children's Garde...

This has been a HORRIBLE year for tomatoes for the Sacramento area- but it's time to come together and celebrate our favorite fruit! They don't call us SacraTomato for nothing! July 30th is the 2nd Annual Sacramento Tomatofest at Town & Country Vi...

A couple weeks ago I complained when we came home from vacation to find that sunflowers had taken over our front yard. You see, a few months ago I handed my daughter four packages of sunflower seeds to hold on to for a few minutes while I put a plant ...

Finding yourself a bit uninspired by gardening magazines these days? Looking for year-round color but don't want to limit yourself to just flowers? Got crates full of Lego's that have been passed down through generations? Then maybe building your own L...

(can you tell we went to Legoland?)