Winter

Camellias in my Garden – Garden Bloggers Bloom Day

by Rebecca Sweet 14 January 2011

It’s January 15th which means its time for another fabulous Garden Bloggers Bloom Day! For those of you not familiar with what ‘Bloom Day’ is, it’s a monthly tradition created by May Dreams Gardens and is an opportunity for Garden Bloggers across the world to show you what’s currently growing in their personal gardens.  My own [...]

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My Favorite Winter Plants

by Rebecca Sweet 2 January 2011

I’ve just returned from Lake Tahoe, where anything green (besides the pine trees) was buried beneath six to eight feet of snow.  Even the poor trees were hunched over, already tired from bearing the heavy load of snow draped across their shoulders.  While the snowy landscape is truly stunning, I must admit that now that [...]

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Meet Frankenstein… (aka: my ‘Washington Navel’ Orange Tree)

by Rebecca Sweet 22 January 2010

It’s January here in Northern California and today I ate the first (of many) oranges off my ‘Washington Navel’ tree…. I LOVE that first, sweet-with-a-faint-hint-of-sour-taste the season’s first orange gives me…I look forward to it all year, beginning in late Spring when my garden is literally blanketed with the scent of it’s heavenly blossoms…to the [...]

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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – January 2010

by Rebecca Sweet 15 January 2010

. With most of the country being hit so hard this past month with unusually frigid weather I thought it might be a bit rude to talk about the blooms that are currently in my Northern Californian garden.  Yes, I know that’s the whole purpose of the Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day event, (a wonderful monthly [...]

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I’m craving Cabin Fever….

by Rebecca Sweet 30 December 2009

. Living  here in California can be exhausting for a gardener – specifically here in the Bay Area, where our average Winter temperatures only dip down into the 30′s.  Our gardens are pretty much year-round here and always in some state of ‘workability’ in the Winter, always staring you in the face asking when you’re [...]

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Baby….it’s cold outside!

by Rebecca Sweet 8 December 2009

I woke up this morning to a whopping 26 degrees.  I can already hear those of you in other parts of the country laughing at my wimpy-ness, but please remember – I live in California!!  The Bay Area, to be exact – Zone 8!!!  I’m not accustomed to this weather…and more importantly, my PLANTS aren’t [...]

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