Digging in the dirt has the ability to be a gateway to your soul. It can open you up to possibilities, unleash your imagination and playfulness, enable you to take risks and trust your instincts, and help you develop a healthy level of self-confidence. However, people in the United States tend to view gardening as[...]
Gardening Gone Wild readers: help me decide which photos to include in my new rose book. There are several sections to the book, explaining how to photograph roses in gardens and as close-up illustrations, but the section on bouquets has too many photos – or maybe not. Help me out. There are so many ways to make beautiful photos[...]
Can succulents recover from a hard frost? It depends. Let’s look at a southern California nursery’s display garden before nighttime temperatures dropped into the mid-20s F: Here’s the same Euphorbia ammak ‘Variegata, after the frost: Likelihood of recovery: Nil. Too much of the tissue was damaged. But what about the Euphorbia tirucalli ‘Sticks on Fire’ behind it? It’s hope of recovery[...]
I thought selecting my favorite photos of 2015 would be easy for my final Gardening Gone Wild post of the year. That is, until I had to actually narrow down the choices. What follows are surely 10 of my favorite photos, but I can’t say they are my absolute favorites – my overall list is 26. This is a[...]
Feel free to hum along. On the first day of cactus, my true love gave to me: A dove in a prickly pear tree. On the second day of cactus, my true love gave to me: Two agave pups and a dove in a prickly pear tree. On the third day of cactus, my true[...]