Gardening Turned Up to Eleven

Just a few shots from the garden in honor of bloom day (at Carol's ) and Foliage follow up (at Pam's ).... Yucca blooms adding...

Here are just some of the gazania rigens that are turning the hillside orange. I always have to smile when I see these for sale - these are ...

I can't grow orchids well at all - the one I have at home puts out a new leaf every once in a while, but has never rebloomed. Here is so...

These days, i find myself posting on Instagram more often. Here are some of the latest pictures not from my own garden... This is what...

I'm late for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, but while I wait for the front yard to be ready for pictures, I wanted to document at least...

Changes are afoot in the front yard! Before all the work is finished, I figured I should remember what it looked like before. Last year, the...

Well, at least it hasn't been a whole year... Even though the blog has been neglected, the garden has not. These days, i'm mostly ...

It was already too hot to look for flowers this morning, so red, white and blue pots it is!

The red yucca is flowering in blue? Hey! Hesperasloe parviflora  flowers don't look like that! Seems like my Morning glory ( Ipomo...

My favorite plant this week started out as a self-sown "weed" before the flowers opened - obviously Eschscholzia californica ...

purple, red and blue The front garden has been taken over by bloom spikes. Above is red yucca and Calandrinia grandiflora . The Caladrin...

Hello there! After noticing pups on my  Agave parryi ssp. truncata   I decided to go look and see if any of my other agaves had grown pu...