Maybelline's Garden

 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 ...

Just a quick notation of Spring progress in the garden. The Pink Lemonade Sunshine Blue blueberries are developing nicely.  These are ...

Rain! We received heavenly rain.  It even looks like we may receive more. Keep it coming. The weather is beautiful and cool. Most all of the...

The wisteria is loaded on the pergola.  Every afternoon, the bumble bees are bouncing around loaded with pollen.  The spent petals float to ...

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...