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Recent Articles
Two Houses, part 2
January 03, 2012 by Kathy Purdy
Filed under Garden Blogs
In the Oakland hills near the Berkeley border is Chapel of the Chimes, a columbarium. Renovated and expanded by Julia Morgan, the architect of Hearst Castle in San Simeon, it is a melding of Spanish and Gothic styles with arches, latticing and copious stained glass. I’ve been visiting since I was very young and it [...]
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New Year’s pix
January 02, 2012 by Craig Cramer
Filed under Garden Blogs
Winter is finally supposed to hit tonight. (Low's ~10F, 6 to 10 inches of snow, high ~15F tomorrow.) But New Year's was sunny and pushing 50F. I even harvested a little lettuce. Grasses look good. Pulmonaria is still green (mostly). Bittersweet wreath by the driveway. The stiff breezes got the seedheads all pointing the same [...]
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Two Houses, part 1
January 02, 2012 by Kathy Purdy
Filed under Garden Blogs
The street I grew up on was lined with Sycamore trees. Their leafy masses were a delight in summer and always produced some good-natured grumbling during fall raking. These were small city lots and as time moved on problems developed. Blocked sewer lines became common and sidewalks started to lift and shift, making walking difficult [...]
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Influence: my mother’s windowsill
December 30, 2011 by Lynn
Filed under Garden Blogs
My mother always had something rooting in little jelly jars on the kitchen windowsill or in the sunny back windows. She still does. Filed under: inspiration, Out West Tagged: home, inspiration, winter
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In frosty days
December 26, 2011 by Lynn
Filed under Garden Blogs
We dream of happy coneflowers… Photo by Piet Oudolf, from his Hummelo garden. For more see http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/10/garden/20110210-garden.html Filed under: Uncategorized
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