Juiciest Peach in the World
Our Babcock peach season ended weeks ago. I shouldn’t complain because we enjoyed a bountiful harvest… I‘m proud of our peach tree. He (I’ve decided my peach tree is a “he”), is not very large and you...
View ArticleHelianthus annuus, the Sunflower and last days of summer
Labor Day marks the last days of summer in the U.S. However, it doesn’t necessarily mean the end of summer-like weather if you live on the West Coast – but we can still dream of cooler days… The hotel...
View ArticleThe Bee-Friendly Garden…
Planning and organizing a landscape and an edible garden involves not only endless hours of hands on labor of love, resources and researching, it also includes deterring and repelling pests and...
View ArticleLavandula & the Bee (lavender)
Amongst the myriad of fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, and creatures in the garden (both friends and foes), we’ve made way for Lavandula angustifolia. Lavandula is lavender, not only the color but...
View ArticleMy Purple Passion – The Passion Fruit (passiflora)
Exotic and unusual. Like something extraterrestrial, it’s the passiflora or passion fruit and its passion flower – my purple passion. Passion Fruit Flower – passiflora I almost can’t even breathe....
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