September is the month when we gardeners are pruning back the skeletons of plants that have nurtured us and that we have nurtured all summer long. Overgrown branches of the plum tree. Forsythia running wild. Trumpet vine shedding flowers, its seed pods drying in the Indian Summer sun, bees scurrying over them for some invisible […]
Posted on September 12th, 2010 by Kathryn
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Cornus florida “The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” ~Chinese proverb It’s April and flowering trees abound at this time of year in California, and most likely where you live, too. They emerge in concert harmony, showcasing one after another. At this particular moment it […]
Posted on April 25th, 2010 by Kathryn
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Spring finally arriving I am particularly delighted to celebrate the end of a long wet winter with the blossoming of two of my favorite plants, which share the same large pot. At the lower end of this configuration spills the simple pink clematis, now charmingly entangling itself around the madonna who lives next to the […]
Posted on April 17th, 2010 by Kathryn
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