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  • 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

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Looking Ahead

When summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And, like a dream, glides away.
~ Sarah Helen Whitman

Summer heat has for the moment waned and we’re enjoying comfortable days and almost chilly nights. The past few weeks of high temperatures paired with alternating days of heavy rain have combined to produce [...]

August 19th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Uncategorized | 4 comments

Contain Your Excitement

“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter.

Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom,

but we hope it, we know it.”

~Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe

I could hardly contain my excitement at the appearance of this beautiful blossom on Valentine’s [...]

February 14th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments

My Garden Favorites: Heirloom Vegetables

How timely that the first of the 2010 garden catalogs appeared in the mailbox today. I’ve been busy choosing my favorite heirloom vegetable performers of the year and making final selections of varieties to grow next season. I hope to include a few heirloom flowers and ornamentals as well.

With July’s non-stop rain and August’s cooler [...]

November 18th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Planting day

Let me start by saying I never really woke up this morning. I did manage to make Andrew’s breakfast and see him off to Middle School, but my mind was on auto-pilot. A quick breathing check showed my asthma isn’t “controlled”, bummer… I hope I’m not getting a cold! Anyway, after a clumsy morning of [...]

November 5th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment