Maybelline's Garden

Red Flam Grapes - 2019 The best/most productive crop in the garden for 2019 has been the Red Flame grapes. The quantity & quality ha...

Santa Rosa Plum Bud Break February 18, 2018 I've been away from blogging for sometime.  The process of blogging takes focus and ...

Santa Rosa Plum Bud Break - February 12, 2017 It's been a beautifully wet winter in California.  Some moan and whine.  I delight ...

The buds on the Santa Rosa plum are the first to break this spring (Feb 13, 2016). It is loaded with buds. All the other fruit trees ar...

What the heck?!  Blogging sure has dwindled down to a small trickle just like the flow of the good ol' Kern River.  Even though the drou...

 Here's what's going on in the garden after some nice rain before we head into a scorcher of a week. Several lavender plants are ...

This year, the Blenheim apricot won the bloom off competition in the garden. The apricot buds broke on Valentine's Day.  Each year the S...

It's June 1st and, just like calendar work, the plums are ripening.  We enjoyed sharing the 1st juicy goodness for dessert a couple of n...

Seems like the split leaf philodendron bloom is a bit early this year; but maybe not.  It seems to have opened in years past between now...

  The garden orchard isn't big at all.  All the deciduous trees are espalier pruned to shadow the garden fence line.  (The citrus gro...

Santa Rosa Plum The Santa Rosa Plum grows perfectly in the Southern San Joaquin Valley.  Perfect.  Hot, long days all summer long don...

Before the temperatures plummeted and the wind picked up this evening, all the fruit trees were groomed (espalier).  Some of the trees are m...

I’ve determined that photographing purple is usually best in the shade.  There are some exceptions like the sweet peas featured above.  The ...

Most the fruit trees in the garden are espalier trained.  Sorry if the word “espalier” is misused .  Though the trees grow two dimensionally...