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It’s January here in Northern California and today I ate the first (of many) oranges off my ‘Washington Navel’ tree….
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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 Fall [...]
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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 celebration [...]
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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 going [...]
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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 [...]
