Maybelline's Garden

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

Lavandula angustifolia "Hidcote Blue" Lavender does fairly well here in the Central San Joaquin Valley of California.  However...

Warren Pear The miniature espalier orchard was planted in the winter of 2008-2009 and has never produced any fruit.  Not even a blossom ...

O'Henry peach performed exceptionally this year.  The freezer is well stocked with loads of peach slices to enjoy in pies and cobbl...

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...

Today, the morning air was refreshingly cool.  Excellent. October is on the way.  The tomatoes have been removed along with the morning glor...

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...

Soaking the garden dirt off the fresh carrots and beets that were harvested this morning.  Everything was hosed off; but there's some le...

Wow! Wisteria is loaded up on the pergola with soft purple petals falling like sweet scented confetti. That perfume blended with all the cit...

Out in the garden this morning before it gets too hot.  Gardening is my meditation - similar to swimming laps. My mind has no specific focus...