June 2010 « Get in the Garden

May is Wildflower Month May 17, 2012
May is underway, the month that is the bridge between Spring & Summer. In the Santa Monica Mountains, it is a month of vibrant color. The hillsides are bejeweled in blooms of yellow, orange, pink, white, purple & blue. Flowers are strewn from here to there, seemingly at random, as if at the whim […]
Kathy Vilim
The Wildlife Pond at Mount Cuba Center May 16, 2012
I was thrilled to be invited to visit Mount Cuba Center last week, to interview some of the staff, and spend several delightful hours wandering around with my camera collecting images of this beautiful place, which is devoted to preserving the native plants of the Piedmont region. Mount Cuba Center is a 600 acre preserve […]
Carole Sevilla Brown
My Garden’s Carbon Footprint May 15, 2012
“It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.” ~Seneca With spring we turn our attention in earnest to our gardens. And this year as Earth Day loomed, I also turned my attention to what I was doing to be more environmentally conscious and earth friendly […]
Donna Donabella
Build-A-Wetland May 14, 2012
So I had my driveway re-done a few weeks ago, as I believe I mentioned, and as I was planting in the newly cleared space, it chanced to rain. And I discovered that while most of the area was pretty much exactly as it had been, there was a large section that now, as soon […]
Ursula Vernon
A Tale of Quail May 11, 2012
Just when I think I’ve run out of critters that will come to visit, someone new shows up. Wednesday we had some much-needed rain and the storm was ending. I glanced out the window that overlooks the backyard and I spotted a bird taking shelter under a wax myrtle. At first glance I thought it […]
Loret T. Setters

Gardens Happen

Life is what happens to you

while you’re busy making other plans.

~John Lennon

A garden is a wonderful teacher, especially when it comes to lessons in predictability and planning. Rarely is anything predictable in my garden… one of the things I love most about tending it. There’s the sweet [...]

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MOMA Worthy Onions

After spending two weeks with hubby landscaping the front of our house, I’ve finally had more than just a few minutes to walk through the vegetable garden. Of course my temporary lack of attention and two days of very heavy rain has created a very lush (weedy) environment, but it wasn’t the weeds [...]

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Seed GROW Project: Miserable May

Oh, where to begin? The snow that fell early in May gave way to unusually warm temperatures the rest of the month. The past week and a half the temperatures hovered around 85 degrees everyday (it felt a lot like August!) and there’s been no rain. June is now here, and though the first few [...]

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My New Fava-rite Plant

“Let us cultivate our gardens.”

~Voltaire

My (now retired) hairdresser is to credit with my new fondness for favas. It was his fun and vivid description of his extended Italian family’s annual tradition. Aunts and uncles, cousins young and old, all marching out to their huge shared garden in [...]

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