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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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A First In Our Garden

“To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.”

~Shakespeare

To plant a garden is to be a bit of an adventurer. After all we do to prepare, nurture and tend our patch of soil ultimately the harvest depends not on our efforts but many other things outside of our control. Gardening is [...]

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 [...]

Vegetable gardening 101: (Final)

A last reminder about the heirloom seed give-away. I’ll be drawing names on December 22 to win free heirloom seeds just for visiting my site. To enter, simply leave a comment or send along an e-mail to getinthegarden@gmail.com  and mention heirloom seeds in the subject line. It’s my way of saying “Thanks” for stopping by [...]

Vegetable gardening: 101 (part 5)

In the smallest of yards and the biggest of cities people make room to grow summer’s essential vegetables: tomatoes, peppers and eggplant. (O.K. technically they’re fruits.) In pots or plots everyone loves fresh, juicy tomatoes ripened in the summer sun, crisp sweet peppers and tender eggplant picked fresh for cooking. Seed varieties are available from [...]

Vegetable gardening 101: part 4

With the exception of the first vegetable gardening post (sorry poor planing on my part!) the vegetables listed so far like an early spring start with cooler temperatures. Today begins a look at warm-weather crops. They require full sun and shouldn’t be planted until after the last frost date for your area. (See dates here.) [...]