by angela@diggingbliss | Aug 16, 2013 | air plants, fertilizing, ponds
I love how blogs propagate neat ideas somewhat randomly and virally throughout the land. Via The Horticult, I recently learned that by soaking your air plants in pond water, they are actually being fed by “pond scum” at the same time! Check out their post...
by angela@diggingbliss | Aug 9, 2013 | container gardening, moss, planters
Being a tomboy who came to lipstick later in life, I don’t have the ability to get super excited about handbags and high heels. I have one purse, a little Tignanello backpack purse, that holds all my stuff and allows me to move about my life with both hands...
by angela@diggingbliss | Aug 5, 2013 | container gardening, talini's nursery, vertical gardening
We got new wall pots, aptly named WallPots, in at Talini’s. Each WallPot contains three deep pockets and has plenty of grommets for attaching to vertical surfaces. This one, I planted with mostly shade-loving plants. Update: the lobelia bit the dust, but the...
by angela@diggingbliss | Jul 29, 2013 | landscaping, trees
We finally did the dirty deed. The huge sycamore tree dominating our small backyard is gone. Granted, the tree was not diseased, nor a danger. But it snuffed out precious morning light, dropped anthracnose-ey leaves everywhere, and it was simply too big and oddly...
by angela@diggingbliss | Jul 20, 2013 | books, digital gardening, gardening books
If you’re not one of those people who needs to smell the papyrus when reading, you might be interested in knowing there’s starting to be quite a nice selection of digital gardening books available for FREE from your local library. OverDrive is the mover...
by angela@diggingbliss | Jul 12, 2013 | air plants, houseplants
At the nursery where I work, we regularly receive shipments of Tillandsias or “air plants”. Thoughts on maintaining them varied among employees, but the general consensus was that they required “occasional misting”. That seems logical, but what...
by angela@diggingbliss | Jun 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’ve had these Flora Grubb Thigmatrope Satellite Fleet air plant holders on my mental wish list since the first time I saw them online. This is the most clever, ingenious, slightly rustic, simple, elegant, artistic way to display air plants on a wall. At fifteen...
by angela@diggingbliss | Jun 15, 2013 | flora grubb, nursery
I made my first visit to Flora Grubb Gardens yesterday, a San Francisco garden shop I’ve admired online for years. It’s wonderful, and exceeded my expectations in terms of overall fabulousness. Flora Grubb was our last stop of the day before heading home...
by angela@diggingbliss | Mar 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was so happy to discover that there’s an iPad/iPhone version of the heavy, moisture-sensitive but invaluable resource for Western gardeners, the Sunset Western Garden Book. Sunset has teamed up with Inkling to create the digital version of the New Western...
by angela@diggingbliss | Jan 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
I don’t know if it’s this sudden shift toward Spring-like weather, or the fact that I just bought the house I’ve been renting since my divorce in ’09… and the fact that my fiance is about to shed his money-sucking house that screamed all...
