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• Hot summer color and Chocolate Chips manfreda in bloom

  
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  Austin’s lovely, unexpectedly extended spring appears to have faded into summer’s mid-90sF heat and humidity. While I may be complaining about the sauna-like conditions, my garden doesn’t mind. Take this cute little cactus for example. Last year it resided on a sunny windowsill in the kitchen, but this spring I ...
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• Hannahs Skull by Shawn Barber (NYC Tattoo Convention 2013)

  
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  As I briefly mentioned in my initial post  from this years New York City Tattoo Convention  (which concluded yesterday), I met a woman named Hannah, who I spotted near one of the many booths. It was her tattoo on her upper right arm that really jumped out at me: My curiosity about the tattoo was not ...
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• Brightening Your Exterior Home with Summer Window Boxes

  
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  Entry #2435, May 20, 2013 Your home’s exterior provides the first impression for guests coming into your home. The challenges of the external environment are never taken as an excuse for a dull home exterior. You can definitely do something to brighten up your home exterior and impress your guests from the ...
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• Stunning Succulents

  
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  The diversity of fleshy plants that we call succulents is immensely vast, and they have cool names — Foxtail Agave, From your nearest nursery to the Cholla Cactus Garden in Joshua Tree National Park, the world’s collection of these plants provides us plenty of locations to shoot them. Explore, and share, more ...
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• Gardens on Tour 2013: Bonnell Garden

  
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  Our final stop last Saturday on the Wildflower Center -sponsored Gardens on Tour was the Curt Arnette -designed Bonnell Garden in west Austin. If it looks familiar, yes, I posted about it last fall after the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days Tour ; check out my earlier post for images of this garden in bloom with ...
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• Toothy grins

  
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  I love watching plants go through the build-up to flowering. Some send up stalks plump with promising fat buds that advertise their coming delights to patrolling bees and other insects. Others are much more modest about their sex life, just popping out without fanfare, doing it briefly, then resuming operations as if ...
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• My First Show Entry

  
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  I have been wooed through the garden clubs I attend to enter the world of competitive plant shows.  My curiosity was raised last summer when I visited my first AGS show and this Easter I made the decision to compete in my AGS group’s show next Easter and ordered some miniature bulbs in readiness.  It was during a ...
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• Prickly Pear Cactus and Blooming Aloe in Berkeley

  
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  College Avenue, Berkeley Prickly Pear Cactus about to bloom Aloe in full bloom
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• Indoor Plant Decor Book and Giveaway

  
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  To celebrate the release of their new book Indoor Plant Decor, co-authors Jenny Peterson and Kylee Baumle are having an online celebration via GGW and several other garden blogs. GGW’s door prize is a $25 gift certificate to Logee’s, a mail-order source of rare and unusual plants. The photo above shows the book on ...
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• Country Style Inspirations: Succulents (1)

  
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  Succulents are often associated with modern décor but I think they work well in country-inspired spaces too. The thing I love most about succulents is that they are available year-round and their sculptural forms have a classic appeal that keeps them from going out of style. Succulents by Style Me Pretty ...
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• Torch Cactus: Beautiful Flowers Among Thorns

  
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  Torch cactus flowers are breathtakingly beautiful and a shock to some people when they see them attached to the plant that bears them. Sharp thorns protect the plant from animals, thirsty for the water encapsulated in the succulent body of the Trichocereus. As an added bonus, the thorns provide shade, acting as a ...
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• Melissa + Derek’s Eco-Friendly Backyard Wedding

  
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  I am quite keen on green weddings.  Although I do love the color, I mean the green, eco-friendly- reduce the carbon footprint your union, kind of green.  And although Kermit may have said it’s not easy, Melissa and Derek prove that it’s not only possible but beautiful too.  Lucky for us, Sharalee Prang ...
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• Prickly Pear Cactus

  
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  Prickly Pear Cactus Sacramento Street, Berkeley Out front of Moxy Beer Garden . They’re new! Bonus shot of Prickly Pear Cactus Row at the Cactus Jungle
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• Springtime visit to the Garden of Good and Evil

  
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  Last weekend Lori, a gardener in southwest Austin who blogs at The Gardener of Good and Evil , hosted a meet-up of local garden bloggers. It was my second visit. I’d seen her lovely garden three years ago and posted about it then. Lori loves roses, and in 2010 they dominated her garden. Today, due to the drought ...
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• Latest Lust: Fun Favors

  
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  One of my favorite entertaining ideas right now are fun favors! They can be inexpensive & diyd, but add such a personal and memorable touch to any party, wedding, or event. These are some of my favorite ideas Ive seen- so creative, but many are very simple too! Succulent Plant: Even for guests ...
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• Gorgeous succulent bowl

  
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  Wow, check out this stunning succulent bowl! It was a gift from my friend Diana of Sharing Nature’s Garden , put together by Vivero Growers Nursery , and I LOVE it! The colorful aeonium (please let it live through our hot, humid summers!), the teeny-tiny yellow sedum (?), the snakey-looking cactus or euphorbia, ...
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• DIY Succulent Hanging Gardens by The Design Confidential

  
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  We asked a few of our favorite bloggers from around the web to craft unique projects using one of the most versatile plants in our garden center: succulents. These are the kinds of project covered in The Home Depot’s Do-It-Workshop  Inspired by Pinterest: Succulent Gardens (more on that below).  Rayan ...
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• Succulents and Cacti – it’s easier than you think!

  
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  by Debra Anchors A succulent rock garden Cacti and succulents often seem intimidating, but they are actually forgiving plants that respond to a gardener’s attentions by multiplying freely (succulents) or bursting into bloom (cacti).  Because they require little water, succulents are a great ...
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• My Garden This Weekend – 28/4/13

  
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  I have to say that I am incredibly chuffed with how much I have done in the garden this weekend.  I know I might sound to be gloating but as I was feeling a little under the weather at the end of week plus I have been home alone I didn’t really expect to achieve much. After my sterling efforts the week before when ...
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• Lucinda Hutson’s purple cottage, cantina garden, and Viva Tequila!

  
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  Lucinda Hutson’s festive home and garden in Austin My friend Lucinda Hutson invited me over to her purple cottage on Sunday to see her angel’s trumpets in bloom, plus all the rest of her exuberant, flowery garden. Lighting up her quiet Rosedale neighborhood street like a fiesta in full swing, Lucinda’s garden ...
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