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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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Seed Grow Project

I don’t like gourmet cooking or “this” cooking or “that” cooking.

I like good cooking.

~James Beard

August is here and the Spitfire nasturtium seeds planted months ago have grown to be happy ramblers in the garden. July was one of the wettest we’ve had in a [...]

Zucchini Brownies

Vegetables are a must on a diet.

I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.

~Jim Davis, “Garfield”

If you’re like me and you grow summer squash, you’re always looking for new ways to use them. Fresh is best, healthy is great… and chocolate gets the teens [...]

Cherry Pie and the 4th of July!

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men

and so it must be daily earned and refreshed –

else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots,

it will wither and die.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our [...]

Get Your Fill(ing)

This year was difficult for growing in New England. Late tomato blight appeared very early in the season and wiped out tomato crops along the Eastern United States. Daily, heavy rains followed in August that left many fields underwater and crops succumbing to various viruses and fungi. Pumpkins were among the late crops affected. Less [...]

In the Garden, Out of the Oven

We’ve been blessed with a mild, although dry, Autumn this year. Today was no exception with bright sunshine and nary a cloud to be seen. I checked the bulbs I (finally) planted to make sure the squirrels haven’t found them and picked a few China Rose radishes from the vegetable garden. The mild weather has [...]