by angela@diggingbliss | Apr 22, 2006 | Uncategorized
President Bush is in Sacramento today to help celebrate Earth Day by visiting the California Fuel Cell Partnership demonstration facility in West Sacramento. In addition to his expected praise for alternative fuel sources (ahem), the Texas oilman (ahem, ahem) strongly...
by angela@diggingbliss | Apr 22, 2006 | Uncategorized
I agree. Here’s her timely blog post. Are you celebrating Earth Day every day? Sometimes it’s hard to do it every day and in every way, but we can all take little steps that will have a lasting effect. Earth Day’s a great day to buy a worm bin or...
by angela@diggingbliss | Apr 20, 2006 | Uncategorized
Date: Saturday, April 22ndTime: 9:00 a.m. Birds and Wildflowers of Dry Creek Hills Hike “Hikers should meet at Latrobe and Stone House Roads (north of Highway 16 or Jackson Rd. and west of Rancho Murieta). Both roads can be accessed off of Jackson Rd. Carpooling...
by angela@diggingbliss | Apr 20, 2006 | Uncategorized
I’ve been asking myself lately, “Why do I garden blog? Why do other gardeners blog?” and I have come to the conclusion that we do it primarily because we’ve been given the opportunity to show what magazines and newspapers don’t–...
by angela@diggingbliss | Apr 18, 2006 | Uncategorized
To fill in the front of this border, today I planted some greenhouse-raised annuals– ‘Apricot Chiffon’ California poppy and Salvia ‘Blue Denim’. I had first seen ‘Apricot Chiffon’ poppies blooming at Annie’s Annuals. But...
by angela@diggingbliss | Apr 17, 2006 | Uncategorized
I’m crazy about passionflowers and was looking online recently for non-rampant cultivars or species. In the Sacramento area, the more cold-hardy forms can do a little too well under certain circumstances. This one, Passiflora tulae, attracted me with unusual...
by angela@diggingbliss | Apr 17, 2006 | Uncategorized
Sacramento Bee reports “Wet weather finally coming to an end“!!!!!
by angela@diggingbliss | Apr 17, 2006 | Uncategorized
Geranium and Viola with Santa Barbara daisies in the background. Pink hellebore Columbine ‘Clementine Rose’ Ooh, sideways orange pansies and purple Nemesia! Yellow Lady Banks rose ‘Lavender Mist’...
by angela@diggingbliss | Apr 14, 2006 | Uncategorized
Much more challenging than the horticultural processs of seed-starting is the act of seed-stopping. Seed stopping involves planting the seeds you have and not ordering any new ones. Like eating just one potato chip or drinking just one glass of wine, seed-stopping...
by angela@diggingbliss | Apr 14, 2006 | Uncategorized
NOTE: Please don’t link to this blog entry… yet!There appears to be a serious bug in the blogger “backlinks” mechanism, and it causes IE, Firefox and AOL to crash badly. The original “In the Spirit of Full Garden Disclosure” post of...
