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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.

    FarOutMatti

    June 4, 2021
    DIY, Friday Garden F*ck Ups, Succulents
  • 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.

    FarOutMatti

    June 2, 2021
    California Natives, Flowers, Roadtrip
    baby blue eyes, california goldfields, california wildflowers, carrizo plain, carrizo plain national monument, Castilleja exserta, Creamcups, lasthenia californica, layia platyglossa, Platystemon californicus, Purple Owl's-Clover, soda lake, tidy tips
  • 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.

    FarOutMatti

    May 31, 2021
    California Natives, Flowers
    california wildflowers, layia platyglossa, lupine, mori point, mori point pacifica, pacifica, tidy tips
  • Friday Garden F*ck Ups: Pocket Gophers & Pest Talk

    Friday Garden F*ck Ups: Pocket Gophers & Pest Talk

    FarOutMatti

    May 27, 2021
    Friday Garden F*ck Ups, Our Garden
    garden pest, gopher, ipm, macabee trap, pests, pocket gopher
  • Striking Succulent Gardens By Gabriel

    Striking Succulent Gardens By Gabriel

    FarOutMatti

    May 26, 2021
    California Natives, Roadtrip, Succulents
    aeonium kiwi, Aeonium nobile, dudleya, gabriel frank, gardens by gabriel, grevillea, kalanchoe orgyalis, kaveh mcguire, mangave, senecio serpens, striking succulent gardens, succulent garden, Succulents
  • Botanica Nova and Grow Nursery

    Botanica Nova and Grow Nursery

    FarOutMatti

    May 26, 2021
    Roadtrip, Staghorn Ferns, Succulents
    agave, Aloe arborescens, Aloe vanbalenii, Aloe polyphylla, Botanica Nova, Cambria, Cambria Shores Inn, Deuterocohnia brevifolia, Epiphytes, Grow Nursery, Nick Wilkinson, succulent garden, succulent nursery, Succulents, The Garden Shed
  • Magical Moorten Botanical Garden and Cactarium

    We’ve been to the wonderful Moorten Botanical Garden twice. Our first visit to Moorten was on our wildflowerpalooza trip. We left Lake Elsinore headed to Palm Springs for lunch, a picture with the Sonny Bono statue and a quick visit to see the cacti on our way to Borrego Springs. We had heard from other […]

    FarOutMatti

    May 25, 2021
    Cactus, Roadtrip, Succulents
    agave, aloe flower, cactarium, cacti garden, cactus garden, dollar cacti, golden barrel cacti, Lophocereus schottii var. monstrose, moorten botanical garden, palm springs, rathbunia alamosensis, stapelia, stenocereus alamosensis, totem pole cactus
  • 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 […]

    FarOutMatti

    May 20, 2021
    Friday Garden F*ck Ups, Our Garden
    california invasive plant, Cortaderia jubata, Cortaderia selloana, Friday Garden F*ck Ups, invasive plants, pampas grass
  • 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 […]

    FarOutMatti

    May 20, 2021
    DIY, Roadtrip, Succulents
    california poppies, Cotyledon orbiculata var. oblonga 'Flavida', Jimmie Robinson fairy house, limonium, little point richmond, miniature, point richmond california, point richmond fairy houses, point richmond gardens
  • 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 […]

    FarOutMatti

    May 18, 2021
    Roadtrip, Succulents
    allen centennial garden, alpine garden, Frank Cabot Public Rock Garden Award, hen and chicks, madison WI rock garden, Orostachys spinosa, rock garden, Saxifraga longifolia, Saxifraga paniculata 'Millstream', sempervivum, succulent garden
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