The bright colorful bromeliad is a Guzmania I picked up for a song (by one at $5 get one free, the other is out in the garden).
Monday, August 11, 2025
On a tree on Monday
The bright colorful bromeliad is a Guzmania I picked up for a song (by one at $5 get one free, the other is out in the garden).
Friday, August 8, 2025
Then and now... my garden at 20
Plus, the only people who see the house from a straight on viewpoint are the neighbors across the street. The views most people have are from the sides, as they're driving the street. I've always liked this angle, across our driveway, it's much more interesting and inviting.
This next image has always been a bit of a head scratcher, why did I take this photo? I must have just been trying to record all sides of the house, although I completely skipped the north side. Anyway, here's the backdoor and a bit of the driveway then...
And now...
A now photo with the agavegate closed...
And now...
And now...And a gate closed version.
This next photo was taken standing in the upper garden looking to the southwest corner. Believe it or not that fern at the edge of the garage is still there, although I trim it back every spring so it's a lot smaller. The chiminea went with the previous owners and that rose bush was ripped out our first weekend in the house.
Now...
And now...
Super blurry image but c'st la vie. This is looking to the northwest corner of the back garden, then...
And now...The back of our garage. Many years before we lived here there was an alleyway (no signs of it now) and you could drive into the garage from the front or the back. We've never tried the back door to see if it's operable. You can also see that lawn ran all the way to the southside fence and there was no wall at that end of the property, just a slope down to the lower level where the patio is now.
Speaking of now...
And a little pulled back so you can see the wall we put in to border the patio...
Just one final photo, the back of our house, which I always thought would make a great outdoor movie screen.
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Worth watching and reading...
I've recently watched and read a few things that I want to share with you. First up is a video from the New Yorker (no paywall) that runs about 30 minutes. It's beautiful! The Japanese Artist Who Sends His Work to Space, the "work" they are referring to are floral arrangements and the bit about going to space is just a small part of the whole.
Now we're off to YouTube to watch one of Darcy Daniels garden videos. She's a longtime Portland Garden Designer and the founder of eGardenGo. Her YouTube channel has lots of great videos but I especially enjoyed her recent tour through her own garden: My Portland Garden In July—A Few of My Favorite Things. This one might not be as interesting to everyone since it's very Portland-centric but Darcy's garden is gorgeous and always fun to visit.
The next piece I want to call your attention to is an article from Garden Rant, called Cutting Back. It's not necessarily an uplifting story, as it deals with cost cutting at public gardens, but I do think it's an interesting read that gets you thinking about what we value.
Here is another YouTube video, this one from Architectural Digest, Inside a Hidden LA Greenhouse Full of the World’s Rarest Plants. I don't know that some of the plants are really all THAT rare, but it's a great collection and a fun 15 minutes of your time.
Finally, those you who enjoyed my post on Kipp's spiky drive-by front garden in Berkeley (here) may appreciate these posts from Panayoti Kelaidis' blog, Prairiebreak. First up post from July 23rd featuring blooming Calochortus (shown below, linked here) and then an older post from 2022 shows a glimpse of the back garden as well as the front garden in earlier days, that one is here.
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Monday, August 4, 2025
Pyrrosia hastata or polydactyla, that is the question...
They've aged to have much longer lobes.