Dig This: Costco has Sunset Books
The new edition of Western Landscaping and the latest Western Garden Book are at Costco. I happened to visit the Expo Blvd. Sacramento store.
Orchids Still Blooming Alert
A tree dahlia grows in Sacramento
The upside of completely forgetting that I planted a tree dahlia, Dahlia imperialis, is that it just shot out of the ground as if by magic! We’ll have to move it when we landscape, but that will just be a nice excuse to divide it!
‘Black Spider’ Dahlia from Dan’s Dahlias
This is the “before” picture.
This is what we’re shooting for:
New epis!
This post is as much to remember as it is to share, because I will inevitably come searching this site when the ink fades on my cuttings.
These “orchid cacti”, epiphyllums or “epis” are from Epiphyllum World, which had a booth at the 2014 San Francisco Flower & Garden Show
Monastery Garden apparently has blooms like this, according to a screen shot from Annie’s Annuals & Perennials:
‘Windsong’ looks like this:
And ‘Whirlibird’ looks like this:
I’ve had really good luck with a single cutting my friend Cheryl gave me years ago. It’s an unknown red variety. I almost lost it when it got left behind after I moved about five years ago, but I was later able to rescue it and it thanked me by finally blooming again this year. Sometimes, it takes us plants and people awhile to get our mojo back, but we’re back, baby.
Angela’s Stock Photography
