Flowers
Dahlia Growing Tips for Hot Climates
The best gardening tips I ever learned came from failure---ideally, failure followed by success. Growing dahlias in Southern California comes with its own set of challenges, but it hasn’t stopped me from truly enjoying these flowers and being fascinated by their...
Grow Spring Bulbs in Containers
Do you want to join me this Fall and grow some bulbs in containers? Let me share how incredibly fun it is to create a gorgeous spring bulb display for your garden! Planting flowering bulbs in containers or pots comes with many benefits, but first and foremost your...
How to Deadhead Roses After Blooming
Despite a gloomier than usual Spring, the roses bloomed in a magnificent display of color this year. While I consider roses to be fairly low maintenance, there are some things that just need to be done if you’re looking forward to another flush of blooms---one of...
A David Austin Rose Garden
This is the first year for this David Austin rose garden here in zone 10. Back in Spring 2022, I planted a rose garden from scratch and filled it with seven, carefully selected, David Austin English roses. I’ve always been mesmerized by more cupped, heavily layered,...
Self Sowing Volunteer Flowers
Some days you might find me prancing about the garden, waving what looks like a dried up stick enthusiastically through the air. What am I doing? I’m helping mother nature out a little bit and trying to make the most of my self-sowing flowers in the garden. Sometimes...
Planting Daffodils in Containers & Other Fall Tasks
This year, my garden space is maxed out (sound familiar?) so I'll be planting daffodils in containers for the first time. While it's probably easier to forego planting any daffodils this year, I'll miss their cheery faces too much come Spring if I don't plant any....
How to Collect & Save Ranunculus Seeds
Most days in my garden I often think 'I have no idea what I'm doing.' The funny thing is, it's from that very thought that the most enjoyable projects and experiments in my garden start. Having read next to nothing about growing ranunculus from seed, I decided to just...
Growing Dahlia Flowers From Seed
Have you managed to get your hands on some dahlia seeds? You might wonder 'what's the big deal? Gardeners grow from seed all the time!' but growing dahlia flowers from seed offers many unique opportunies. I'm by no means an expert, but today I'll be sharing how I grew...
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