Bromeliad Corner – sharing plants with friends!
A while back I was doing a design for a fellow that has a beautiful old brick bungalow in Montrose. …
Category Archives: My Garden
Garden Quote – Matthew M. Cohen M.D., Hand-watering plants…
“Hand-watering plants in your garden with Mother Nature’s support will take you on journeys to her special beauties. And to …
Look who photo bombed my picture!
While taking pictures for a blog I want to do about bromeliads I noticed a little lizard. I see more …
Rainy Labor Day Weekend; the Queen Elizabeth Tunnel works!
We decided to give the crew and ourselves a long weekend. Most of the year we are fortunate if we …
A little treasure from the plant swap, Starfish cactus.
Earlier this month I blogged about the Heights Garden Club plant and seed swap. I came home with two interesting …
Blackberry lily – Iris Domestica, a new plant we are trying!
One of my favorite growers is Treesearch Farms They have a large selection of native plants and also more unusual …
My Nod to Portland…meet Topsy Turvy Echeverias in their new urns!
Whenever I see my lovely urns planted with succulents I will think fondly of the gardens of Portland! On my …
Garden Poem – Andy Doty, To Salvia
TO SALVIA In these times of fashionable rages Let us honor enduring sages. Known to cure, to mend, to ease; …
Hostas in Houston
Here at Ravenscourt we face the west and have two-story houses on both sides creating some very shady beds on …
Garden Quote – Thich Nhat Hanh, Letting go gives us freedom… My thoughts on the 4th of July.
“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling …
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