. 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 [...]
. 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 [...]
. 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 [...]
. 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 [...]
