by angela@diggingbliss | Feb 24, 2007 | custom seed packets, hortus botanicus, seed packets, seeds
Now here’s a cool way to make your own custom seed packets! I picked these up at Hortus Botanicus on my last trip to Mendo. Looks like they used coin envelopes and printed labels using their own photos of plants in bloom. Very classy and very clever. Inside the...
by angela@diggingbliss | Feb 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
Just when I think I’m strong enough to look at gardening books online without being tempted to buy… I stumble upon Roses for Northern California by local rosarian Muriel Humenick. To make matters worse, it’s brand spankin’ new. Published last...
by angela@diggingbliss | Feb 21, 2007 | Uncategorized
New website: SacGardens.org Upcoming meetings: *FRONT YARD GARDEN MEETING* To Organize Community Support for the Updating ofSacramento City’s Front Yard Landscape Ordinance*To be voted on at the March 20th City Council Meeting* Tuesday, February 27, 20076 pm to...
by angela@diggingbliss | Feb 17, 2007 | avid gardener, catalog, catalogs, collectors, plant collector
If the same ol’ same ol’ in mainstream garden catalog plant offerings just doesn’t do it for you anymore, you might be a slightly jaded gardener. If, like me, you increasingly need a plant to be rare, or unusual in color or form, or organic, or...
by angela@diggingbliss | Feb 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
Ok, so the pansies are kind of disappearing, but… ahem… I did plant a lot of...
by angela@diggingbliss | Feb 7, 2007 | Uncategorized
In flowers, too, green is the new redFor Valentine’s Day, choose flowers raised organically and sustainably — or nearly so Amy Stewart, Special to The ChronicleWednesday, February 7,...
by angela@diggingbliss | Feb 7, 2007 | Uncategorized
It feels appropriate to have finished reading Amy Stewart’s new book, Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers just before the Big Day… Valentine’s Day. But, hey, maybe her publishers planned it that way so...
by angela@diggingbliss | Jan 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
Successive frosts and freezes and a rainfall deficit means the garden is looking pretty ragged right now. I’m not cutting anything back till frost danger has passed… except my roses, which I should have already pruned but… haven’t. If I do it...
by angela@diggingbliss | Jan 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
Wine industry lifts glasses to vanishing glut By Jim Downing – Bee Staff Writer Published 12:00 am PST Thursday, January 25, 2007Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A1 Happy to have done my part as an Amercan cizen… hiccup… an Amer-i-can...
by angela@diggingbliss | Jan 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
A friend and I saw… and fondled… these gorgeous new biodegradable EcoForms pots at Emigh Hardware the other day. They’re really cool and I’m going to get some. They’re made from rice hulls! Check out their FAQ’s. How long will...
