Funny Spring Gardening Memes that all gardeners will appreciate, without having to pull any weeds.
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Gorgeous Greens – Spring Garden Photos
In honor of St Patrick’s Day and the first day of Spring right around the corner, I thought I ‘d share some gorgeous green spring garden photos with you.
Butterflies and Bees in the Garden
Whenever I do a photo post I try to link up on Photo Friday over at Pierced Wonderings. Even when I don’t link up I like to go look at the gorgeous pictures Jen and the others share. Last week I was awed by the critter photos on Inspired by June. I was amazed at […]
January 2016 – Garden Photos
I know it is February 3rd, and I am just now posting January Garden Photos. I could have backdated the post by a few days, but the truth is I just now got them edited to put up. January in a California native garden is actually just the beginning of a magical time. Especially if […]
December 2015 California Native Plants Photos
It’s just an incredibly beautiful winter day here in Southern California so I grabbed the camera and took some shots of my California Native plants to share with you. While it is winter and snowing and plants are dormant in some areas, here in my yard the California Native plants are just starting to awaken […]
A little perspective from the garden
For anyone exposed to media of any kind this week there is no denying things have been overwhelmingly morose. Besides the happenings in World News, personally things have been a little bothersome too. Add in the lovely menopausal hormone fluctuations and I was headed for a meltdown of epic proportions. And then I went outside. At first, I […]
Down low in the garden
Last week I posted some close up photos of the flowers in my garden. This week I decided to get down low and take shots from another angle. I only lasted a short while out there, because it is rather hot out there, and when you are a woman “of a certain age” the heat […]
The Dreaded Tomato Hornworm: A Gardener’s Midsummer Nightmare!
If you have ever grown tomatoes you understand this humorous tale of a gardener’s battle with tomato hornworms (Manduca quinquemaculata). #talltales #gardening #gardeninghumor #hornowrms #growingtomatoes #munoforeblog
Close up and personal with some California Native Plants
So many Californians are still under the misguided impression that in order to have a drought tolerant garden you need to have rocks and cacti. And I won’t even comment on people outside of the state that still insist the entire state is, and always was, a desert. In my area, Coastal Sage Shrub is […]
Saturday in my yard
The weather was finally cool enough to spend some time outside, so we made the most of it. I snapped these flower photos for the Bloggers Get Social Photo A Day Prompt “flowers”. lovely little lavender blossom. lily in the pond Zauschneria californica – one of the California native plants. My son kept himself occupied… […]