Friday, December 03, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
How fun for me, an invitation to meet another gardener and her garden! Pat has been creating this garden in McKinley Park for the last 15 years. The first thing I notice is the generous flagstone path. Wide paths have a way of making you feel welcome, don't you think?
Her sun border has some great perennials, like this Bee Balm. Hummingbirds love it!
Ferns in containers are a great way to garden under a large shade tree, especially one with gnarly surface roots like a Magnolia!
More perennials ... this one looks to me to be the tall spiky Liatris, with another hummingbird favorite, California Fuchsia,
and a Black and Blue Salvia. Salvias attrack hummingbirds, bees and butterflies. Do we see a trend here?
Away to the back yard for more horticultural bounty! Here we have a nice mix of tomatoes and other veg in containers,
and, some member of the squash family with a variety of annuals and perennials.
(Rosalind Creasy would be proud!)
Did I mention the bamboo? Of course there's bamboo! I love the sophistication of these colors and and the variety of shapes.
The bamboo grove extends to 5 neighboring yards and was here before Pat bought the house. She's created a pathway so she can get in there and control it.
What's a garden without some funky homemade art projects? Boring!
... a closer look. I love rusty tin things, and this would be a project any of us could do!
My visit is over. Thanks to Chris, a Facebook fan, for inviting me over to see her mom's garden. I really enjoyed it.
Her sun border has some great perennials, like this Bee Balm. Hummingbirds love it!
Ferns in containers are a great way to garden under a large shade tree, especially one with gnarly surface roots like a Magnolia!
More perennials ... this one looks to me to be the tall spiky Liatris, with another hummingbird favorite, California Fuchsia,
and a Black and Blue Salvia. Salvias attrack hummingbirds, bees and butterflies. Do we see a trend here?
Away to the back yard for more horticultural bounty! Here we have a nice mix of tomatoes and other veg in containers,
and, some member of the squash family with a variety of annuals and perennials.
(Rosalind Creasy would be proud!)
Did I mention the bamboo? Of course there's bamboo! I love the sophistication of these colors and and the variety of shapes.
The bamboo grove extends to 5 neighboring yards and was here before Pat bought the house. She's created a pathway so she can get in there and control it.
What's a garden without some funky homemade art projects? Boring!
... a closer look. I love rusty tin things, and this would be a project any of us could do!
My visit is over. Thanks to Chris, a Facebook fan, for inviting me over to see her mom's garden. I really enjoyed it.
Whether you need garden design, coaching, seasonal maintenance or planting, Geno's Garden can help! Call me at (916) 764-5243, or email hansonja@aol.com.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
Meet the New Volunteer at the WPA Rock Garden - Me!!!
I started yesterday and it feels so right! I'm going to work every week, which allows me to get inspired by the great Daisy Mah. Here are some pictures from my first day:
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
What's Blooming in my yard - March 1
a wee dianthus...
a flowering plum from over the fence? This photo makes me dizzy!
my front yard forsythia...
...the never ending forget-me-not...aptly named (can't forget something that NEVER leaves!), oh, and have you experienced those clinging seeds?
one of my two blueberry plants (highly photoshopped!), the earliest to leaf out! interesting. O.K., I took a closer look at their tags. This one is a Southmoon. It's a midseason blueberry. The lagger is an Ozarkblue, a late season blueberry. Figures! I thought they were both Southern Highbush Blues that do well in us warmer climated areas, but the Ozarkblue tag says it's a northern x southern hybrid.
That's all for today, folks! (She said to herself.)
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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