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Pansies on Pennsylvania: The Winter Street Flowers of Washington, DC
It’s great to be back from winter recess. We took a long one this year — saw our families in DC and New York, and today I finish my third (out of five!) residencies at Warren Wilson College, where I’m...
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Flower Fests: Springtime Celebrations Around the World
Winter in our neck of the woods may be mild beyond belief, but we don’t take spring for granted. Not only is spring equinox our blog-erversary, we’re excited for warm vibes to light up the cooler areas...
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Notes From the ‘Field to Vase’ Dinner Tour (Coming to a City Near You!)
There are dreamy meals, and then there are dreamy meals served in a field of full of flowers. That’s the very attractive USP of the first annual American Grown “Field to Vase” Dinner Tour, nationwide...
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The Bougainvillea on Beverly: Showy Bract Season Is In Full Swing
On a hot afternoon in L.A., great tufts of bougainvillea were blooming in three sorbet colors — soft pink, golden orange and screeching fuchsia. Not a lot of shade, but the effect was refreshing. We...
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Breathless: An Air Plant Update, and Our eHow Tutorial
So…how’s everyone’s air plants doing? At friends’ places and on our own homestead, we’ve seen tillandsias run the gamut — ranging from tormented, thirsty, spidery things to ecstatic emerald crowns....
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Fuchsia Fanatics: The Fancy Plants of Late Summer
Not a whole lot’s blooming in our garden (now that our passion flowers are giving way to passionfruit!) — with one silky exception. Our fuchsia plant is, yes, sorry, no other way to say it, on fleek...
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Inside the Camellia Belt: A Visit to Airlie Gardens in Wilmington, North...
Sure, we can grow camellias in Southern California, but our camellias will never burst against a tangy orange bald cypress, and you won’t find them lingering beneath the edges of ancient live oaks...
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Bloom Alert: Our Centerpiece Euphorbia Lights Up
Shaped like a candelabra, our Euphorbia avasmontana is in bloom. But when we talk about the spectacle, we’re not talking about the flowers (which are too small to be easily seen)—we’re talking about...
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Bloom Alert: Summer Solstice Heats Up With Solandra Maxima
Happy Solstice, Earthlings! Today is the first full day of summer, and the temps in our area have gotten the memo, with La Jolla reaching the 80s and Los Angeles sizzling up to 107 degrees Fahrenheit....
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Put Your Flippers Together for the String of Dolphins Succulent
Like lots of bloggers, we get some out-of-left-field emails. Many of these messages assume we sell plants — from aeoniums to elkhorns to ZZs. (We don’t. But we do sell the vertical gardening...
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