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Green Thumb Sunday-Bird of Paradise at the Happiest Place on Earth

At Disneyland you can find Bird of Paradise blooming in December.

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Green Thumb Sunday: The Mystical First Rain of Fall.

It’s a very exciting evening here in Northern California. It’s about to rain. It’ll be the first rain of the season. You can smell it in the air. You can feel the pressure and the dampness.

If I were a horse I would be running around kicking up my heels. I feel like a little kid.

I want to make hot chocolate and sit by the fire. I settled for making pumpkin cake with my oldest son. We added chocolate chips and pecans. We ate it while it was still steaming. I haven’t eaten something so decadent since before my surgery.

It is now pouring outside, quite a change from the last four months.
The ground isn’t soaking it up as I expecting. It’s an unusual rain for this time of year. It is a moderated rainfall, the kind that makes cars slip and slide on the roadway. There are big shallow puddles and steamy fog everywhere.

My garden will be so happy.

Green Thumb Sunday

Orange roses. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California.
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Green Thumb Sunday: Vacation in Cambria

My family and I are spending the weekend on the Central Coast of California. Here in Cambria, the Cambrians have an affinity for succulents—and mixing them with other plant material.
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Green Thumb Sunday: My First Day Out Of Bed

My family and I decided to go to the farmers’ market. This was a nice change from lying in bed.

We shopped a little, then my boys played Frisbee while I sat, sipped a latte, and freaked people out with the stitches in my neck.

Now I’m back in bed, lying next to a great big tuberose that my husband bought me at the farmers’ market.

Happy GTS.

Gardeners, as well as plant and nature lovers, can join in every Sunday.

Visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Green Thumb Sunday

My garden at dusk.
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Green Thumb Sunday

Stargazer Lily

Green Thumb Sunday

Here is my late GTS photo.
It’s a picture of the entire representation of Garden Bloggers at BlogHer.
It is a photo of Genie, of The Inadvertent Gardener and me.
One of the highlights of BlogHer was meeting Genie. She is a genuine, warm, intelligent and a very talented blogger.

Green Thumb Sunday

Shasta Daisy

Green Thumb Sunday

My first Coneflower of the season.