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Our Neighborhood Oakland Gardens 20 Aug 2013 | 11:10 pm
Salvia confertiflora looking pretty with the purple trim I’ve been collecting pics of the neighborhood gardens via Instagram since we moved to Oakland in early July. The above is a garden on our bloc...
Flora Grubb Goodness 17 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm
Pitcher plant festival Before I went to check out The Pitcher Plant Project’s sweet greenhouse I met up with garden rock star Johanna Silver from Sunset Magazine at Flora Grubb Gardens. We did hard t...
Pitcher Plant Project’s Gorgeous Greenhouse 16 Aug 2013 | 09:51 pm
Pitcher plant insanity A couple weeks ago I had the good fortune to visit our plant nerd friend Rob from The Pitcher Plant Project and his amazing greenhouse space. We first met Rob three years ago w...
Garden for the Soul 2 Aug 2013 | 10:13 pm
Wonderful waterfall Two weekends ago we took a little break from unpacking our stuff (yeah, it took over three weeks to get our crap) and headed over to garden designer Raul Zumba’s fabulous Garden f...
Tiny Trees at Lake Merritt 20 Jul 2013 | 10:31 pm
Sierra juniper (Juniperus occidentalis var. australis) We’ve hit up the Grand Lake Farmers Market two weekends in a row, but this time we headed over to the Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt first. If yo...
Badass Bromeliad Society Tour 19 Jul 2013 | 07:16 pm
Bromeliads gone wild Last weekend we hit up the SF Bromeliad Society’s super rad garden tour AND busted out the good old DSLR for the first time in almost a year. All the tour gardens were AMAZING...
Grand Lake Farmers Market is Grand 12 Jul 2013 | 07:24 pm
Dahlia freakout The day before checking out the super sweet Gardens at Lake Merritt we hit up the Grand Lake Farmers Market. It’s pretty close to our new place. A few freeway stops down 580. Grand L...
The Gardens at Lake Merritt 11 Jul 2013 | 10:17 pm
The Garden at Lake Merritt This weekend we headed over to Lake Merritt to check out Fairyland with Zoe. We got there too late, so we ended up visiting the fantastic gardens instead. The Gardens at La...
Lotsa Love for Lettuce 13 Jun 2013 | 06:54 pm
Way back in early April after the snow finally melted on our cinder block raised bed, I planted a bunch of lettuce seeds that were left over from my failed indoor lettuce growing experiment. It’s tota...
Rad Rotary Botanical Gardens 26 May 2013 | 08:14 pm
We’ve been slow with the blogging lately. It’s all about photo management. My phone finally freaked and told me I had to delete mass quantities of pictures if I wanted to take more, so I uploaded a bu...
