When we first moved into our house (and garden) in 2009 we inherited a lemon tree. Thanks to years of Mr Mow&Blow it looked more like a manicured privet. In fairness, maintained at this size it did not obscure the
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Pure and simple
Sometimes it’s just easier to quit fighting with Blogger and acquiesce to their templates and how they want to do things. A gremlin struck my blog. When? I’m not sure. But when I tried to fix the problem today, I
Northern California Coast – Bodega Bay to Manchester
Australia has the Gold Coast, Africa the Ivory Coast, and Northern California? I’d call it the Grey Coast. Having checked the weather forecast – which lied, saying it would be clear over the weekend – we headed for the coast,
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Charges dropped but the plot thickens – and not the veggie plot this time!
I would love to say that the Oak Park case had a great Hollywood ending, with Julie Bass being carried on the shoulders of her neighbors as they paraded past her veggie beds after the city dismissed their charges against
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This one’s for you Daddy xo
Flowers always make me smile, especially when they remind me of loved ones. The last present my Daddy gave me before he died was a bunch of pink tulips. He apologized that his birthday present that year was so simple.
Get the rock out of here!
I inherited about five tons of red lava rock. It’s everywhere around our back yard. It works great between the raised beds, but when I tried to remove some to make the bulb garden I found a thick layer of
Kale and hearty in the garden!
I’m going to have to send my homegrown veggies to the Master Gardener classes so that they learn what is expected of them. Most home grown vegetables are annuals. The exceptions include asparagus and artichokes, and in very hot
What’s in the inside matters too.
They say that beauty is only skin deep. With plants, that’s true to a certain extent too. Take orchids for example. Without blossoms, an orchid is simply foliage. Boring foliage at that! I’ve been looking at the biggest of these,
Lost for words
When I do the Hong Kong thing I don’t really go for the Hong Kong Island experience or visit all the touristy spots and see the anglicized version of life in that part of the world. Oh no, I go
Humming and Ha-ing
This week, I finally got around to changing the hummingbird feeder, shamed into it, in part by reading that it should be cleaned every week and in part by the humming birds themselves, who would zip down to it then
