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Friday Garden F*ck Ups: Garden Junk Gone Wrong
Cover your eyes! We’ve lived in California for nearly thirteen years and are heading back to Madison, Wisconsin in about two weeks.
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Carrizo Plain Flower Festival
You would have thought I’d gotten enough California wildflowers on our stops at Antelope Valley, Lake Elsinore, and Anza-Borrego in March of 2019. Nope. I needed more, so in early April I went on a solo trip south to check out Carrizo Plain National Monument.
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Mori Point Tidy Tips Merriment
Who the heck knew that there’s a spring wildflower freak out just south of San Francisco at Mori Point in Pacifica.
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Friday Garden F*ck Ups: Pocket Gophers & Pest Talk
Friday Garden F*ck Ups: Pocket Gophers & Pest Talk
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Friday Garden F*ck Ups: Pampas Grass
FOR SHAME!!!! What the living f*ck was I thinking? I look so proud in front of it with those terrible sunglasses on. This was way back before we took plant ID classes at City College and one of our worst f*ck ups ever. Back then we thought all the plants growing along the highways in […]
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Pt. Richmond Fairy Home and Garden Tour
We left Davis for the first time in forever to go visit friends Pat and Bob in Point Richmond before we head back to Wisconsin. Pat and my mom met about 44 years ago in Madison when they were both pregnant (my mom with me). Whenever we visit I always want to check out the […]
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Rad Allen Centennial Rock Garden
I’ve been thinking about rock gardens lately, specifically The Allen Centennial Garden on UW-Madison’s campus. It’s pretty amazing in general, but their rock garden is so good that NARGS (North American Rock Garden Society) even had a meeting in Madison. In 2019 it even won the Frank Cabot Public Rock Garden Award. I’d never seen […]