Big rainstorm coming, and so I don’t think this beauty will be here in 24 hours:
These flowers are quite large compared to other roses I’ve shown from the garden – about 6 inches across. There’s a lot of pink, tending toward orange toward the centre. The powerful scent is just marvellous!
I always love it when these pop their heads out to sample the sun: […] Click to continue reading this post
Last week Saturday morning, I stepped out to the garden to do maybe forty-five minutes’ worth of much needed pruning. Sometime late in the afternoon saw me finish. Things just got way out of hand. More and more tools were assembled: …there was much in the way of climbing of … Click to continue reading this post
Well, that flower that so many of you – like me – enjoyed so much a while back has opened up very nicely. So I thought I’d share an update photo of it: -cvj
The final rose or two before the big prune back, methinks. ‘Tis the season. These bushes are way taller than me now, and stretched a bit too thinly. -cvj
I’d like to wish a Happy and Successful New Year to all readers, whether you be regular, occasional or first time visitors! In a very short time, you’ve all helped make this blog into a pleasant, informative, and fun place to visit (certainly for me).
I’d hoped that this could be -and it has indeed become, with your help- a place that […] Click to continue reading this post
Some Winter gifts from the garden:
Spotted in Griffith Park on a quick hike: I’m thinking that this is a variety of bindweed (but see below*). I’m not sure though. Thoughts anyone? (Convolvulus sepium, that is.) Bindweed is a sort of wild morning glory, and this really
Super long day of meeting after meeting. Call after call. Email after email. With that and all the rest… I’m super-stressed. When I can, I try to make some meetings happen outside. Walk while conversing. That way I get to see things like this:
The corn has matured (they’re less full because of low volume of watering while I was away… but that’s ok… they’ll taste great!), and I’ve got a huge corgette/zucchini for my trouble. Must get around to harvesting the peas soon. Upcoming…. that flower promises a tasty patty-pan squash in my … Click to continue reading this post
I’ve temporarily forgotten the name of this beautiful flower. I’ll let you know when I recall it. [Update: Athena worked it out and reminded me….Scaveola, or fan flower] Its blue is more dramatic than the camera has captured. It nods somewhat more to purple than is suggested here. It grows … Click to continue reading this post
The wild flowers seem to have peaked a lot earlier this year, probably due to a change in the rainfall pattern. Up on the way to Buckskin Pass yesterday, there were more deadheads than blooms. Perhaps other trails were doing better (such as the Cathedral Lake trail… look at the … Click to continue reading this post
