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Feeling the pinch

Kristin Green — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:09:09 +0000

Despite knowing that pinching new growth makes plants branch into full and sturdy clumps that promise extra flowers, it can be one of the hardest things to do. Somehow it goes against the grain to nip healthy new growth and I just can’t do it sometimes. But then I always wish I had. The nepeta [...]

An awesome weekend

Kristin Green — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:38:57 +0000

This very well could be the most amazing weekend yet. The forecast is calling for sunny skies in the San Diego-70′s and every flower that can possibly be open right now is in peak glorious bloom. Normally that would be enough for me to say this is the place to be this weekend but it [...]

Euphor(b)ia

Kristin Green — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:30:23 +0000

For this mid-May Garden Bloggers Bloom Day hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens, I’m going to postpone the usual list of all of the amazing things that are blooming suddenly all at once and go into euphoric raptures about a single fantastic genus that has been blooming for a while now. One of them [...]

Plants with promise

Kristin Green — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:50:57 +0000

When it’s pouring rain outside, the greenhouse is definitely the best place to be. It’s not exactly warm on a gray day and it’s not completely dry either but it is full of summer’s promise. Visitors can’t help asking if the plants are for sale. It’s a good question because I’d want them for my [...]

Planting weather

Kristin Green — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:52:49 +0000

Now that the heat of April is behind us, we’re taking full advantage of the coolness and rain of May. The weather is a little backwards but we’ll take what we can get when it comes to planting weather. With a few days of rain in the forecast we were really thrilled to have a [...]