Sunday, June 29, 2014

Turkey-tangle fog-fruit, what's in a name?

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Ran across a little flower today in Sunol park. Found it in the Sunol plant pictures , named lemon verbena. Really? That's something e...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

The Big Yellow Zucchini Goes on a Voyage

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The Challenge: use local summer produce to create a floral design. At our second Slow Flower meeting this summer, in a charming old...
Monday, June 16, 2014

The plant genus with the angel and the devil

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Angel flower versus Devil flower Vinegar weed ( Trichostema lanceolatum ) is a really pretty little plant in the mint family (Lamiaceae)...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Sunol Park, Wild and Rugged Scenes

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Remember in a previous post on Rock Gardening that I mentioned that F.W. Meyer looked at Nature to inspire his rock gardens? His words remi...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

F. W. Meyer, author of "The Rock Garden" column... Who was he?

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F.W. Meyer wrote many articles in the journal The Garden in the early 1900's. I wrote about "The Rock Garden" column in a pre...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Rock Gardens, one of the Branches of Gardening

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Sometimes old horticulture journals and books in Google Books turn up in my searches. A favorite is William Robinson's  The Garden, An I...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Why your dry creek garden look funny, and so does mine!

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Not quite dry creek bed in Sunol Park. When I was re-working our dry creek bed to make it look more natural, I googled and found the  To...