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Nigella in the Santa Cruz Mountains

This Memorial Day picture of my garden is dedicated to all the people who lost their homes and property in the still-burning summit fire here in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California.

This picture is also dedicated to all the brave firefighters who are risking their lives to save the lives and dreams of my neighbors and friends here in these beautiful hills.

Clean Death for White Flies

 Remember when your mom was always bugging you to wash and telling you that you could never be too clean? Well, it's not the same for white flies. Once again Dr. Bronner's peppermint soap puts white flies in their place. And although I don’t know exactly where the white fly’s place is, I know for sure that their place is not in my plants.

I replanted my front planter boxes with yellow Transvaal daisies, sage, and variegated bacopa.

I spoke to my friend Tali and her mom the other day. They’re from South Africa. I mentioned to Tali’s mom that the Transvaal daisy is from South Africa. She told me that she knew this and that it was from the Transvaal region, hence the name.

I also planted sage in the window box because my husband loves sage so much, we are constantly ravaging our sage plants for cooking, so I am always planting new ones.

The variegated bacopa was already in the planter. It looks good trailing down and it is really happy in the boxes.

So there they were, the three components of my planter boxes. I happily planted them and for the first three weeks they were great.

Greenthumb Sunday

Heatwave

Gardener Blogger's Bloom Day, May 15, 2008

I love this time of year.
It’s May, it’s May; the lusty month of May.
O.K., who knows what movie and what song those lyrics are from?
As usual I am not listing plant names.
I just took pictures and boy, are my fingers tired.
Sheesh, half the pictures I took were out of focus and I didn’t get half the fleurs in my jardin, but here they are.
There are so many of them.
Carol of May Dreams Gardens is the genius behind Gardener’s Bloggers’ Bloom Day.

Columbine gone wild.

Greenthumb Sunday

California Poppy

Greenthumb Sunday