Maybelline's Garden

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...

Iceberg Rose Shrub On January 25, 1999, it snowed in Bakersfield, California.  Today, it did not.  Not even close.  It was74 ° with n...

Viola - Jump Up Purple Because 2013 kicked my butt, I'm determined to start 2014 off positively.  Today I planted pansies.  The sun ...

I usually put nursery tags in my Sunset Western Garden book (read: bible) to keep track of names, dates, and miscellaneous junk about p...

Sweet Peas The sweet peas were planted late this evening using seeds collected from past vines.  More like night since me and old Ajax w...

(Owari) Satsuma Mandarin We've had rain!  Holy cow.  It finally happened.  Wonderfully cool, wet weather has arrived.  The garden ha...

 The hope was to keep the soapstone natural or naked.  I like the cadet blue-grey.  However, a kitchen accident splashing chicken fat all ov...

Red Flame Grapes This past Saturday (10/26/13), Farmer MacGregor and I took on some much needed garden chores.  He did the bulk of th...

Iceberg Rose Today I finally had some time to work out in the garden.  Still no bending, lifting (over 5 lbs), or twisting.  This is lov...

Who takes Labor Day off?  There's work to be done. Garlic Chives The garlic chives are in bloom.  Really they are.  Rather than ch...