Posts Tagged ‘Monrovia’
Sunflowers & Superstars
While the large island border is always a reliable kaleidoscope of color and texture at this time of year (see photo above), I have a smaller planting bed next to our main patio that is rather more fickle. It receives blazing sun all day, has terrible, sticky, clay soil, is a magnet for rabbits and…
Read MoreOver the Garden Wall
It's been a busy week as I've been hard at work on a special project for you! (More about that later…) Are you curious to see what's happening in your neighbor's garden? Do you sneak a peek while out walking the dog? Don't blush – we all do it! Well I know I'm rather off…
Read MoreEvolution, Renovation and Rejuvenation – Revisited
I originally published this post in November 2011 on my old blog and continue to see the images re-pinned on Pinterest as well as receiving emails about the custom trellis design. Since it clearly struck a chord with so many I decided to re-post it here, with larger photographs, some new images and minor text…
Read MoreBeyond Geraniums….
Are you struggling to do something different with your sunny container gardens this year? Do you always seem to start off with a geranium, add some pretty million bells (Calibrachoa) and then tuck in some trailing vbacopa to finish it off? Cheerful but not very imaginative is it?Yet this early in the season these are…
Read MoreTaming the Front Garden
Eek! Where would you start? Pruning the overgrown rhododendrons and camellias? Removing towering, diseased conifers? Hauling away a pampas grass the size of a Volkswagen? Well maybe, but the biggest problem was actually the driveway, assuming you drove a vehicle larger than a Mini cooper. Besides some areas that were crumbling away, it was extremely difficult…
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