We have restarted the popular ‘Picture This’ photo contest in the dead of winter to give you a chance to look back at a whole year of photos. Get your files organized. And, oh yeah, by the way it gives me a chance to show off my new eBook and give one away for[...]
Every winter, as a child on an avocado ranch northeast of San Diego, I longed to see snow blanket the garden like a Currier & Ives painting. It never happened. Decades passed. My husband Jeff and I bought a home on a half acre in the same city, but at a higher elevation (1,500 feet). In 25[...]
Happy New Year friends !! Big doings. Monumental news in the world of garden photography. Picture This is back at Gardening Gone Wild ! Our group blog event / contest, started in 2009 catapulting our first winner, Pam Penick, to national stardom. 😉 The contest is known as a gateway to fame and fortune to[...]
The first time I saw Agave ‘Blue Glow’, in a photo like the one above, I thought I was looking at a watercolor painting. A Kelly Griffin hybrid, it entered the nursery trade in 2005, and has since become one of the most commercially successful succulents. It does well in containers or in the ground, grows no larger than[...]
Once the calendar flips over to the New Year, if you’re like a lot of gardeners throughout the world, you begin to think, research, and ponder new elements that you want to bring into your garden this season.