Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) via Instagram
What is your favorite type of daisy? Leave a comment and share! Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) While on campus for another event, I spent an hour or so shooting in the Cal Poly Pomona Rose Garden...
View ArticleA Ladybug Sleeps via Instagram
What is your favorite beneficial garden insect? Leave a comment and share! A Ladybug Sleeps In the native plant garden at Cal Poly Pomona and Follow Join A Gardener’s Notebook on Facebook Don’t miss a...
View ArticleChinese Fringe Tree (Chionanthus retusus) via Instagram
What is your favorite flowering tree? Leave a comment and share! Chinese Fringe Tree (Chionanthus retusus) The spring flowers keep coming at Cal Poly Pomona. I found these trees adjacent to the rose...
View ArticleGround cover in the Cal Poly Pomona Rose Garden via Instagram
What is your ground cover? Leave a comment and share! Ground cover in the Cal Poly Pomona Rose Garden I don’t know what plant this, but it provided a nice contrast among all the blooming roses in the...
View ArticlePink Rose via Instagram
What is your favorite rose? Leave a comment and share! Pink Rose More roses from the @calpolypomona rose garden. I think it at nearly the height of its bloom. It took me over an hour to work my way...
View ArticleCoral Rose via Instagram
What is your favorite rose? Leave a comment and share! Coral Rose More roses from the @calpolypomona rose garden. I think it at nearly the height of its bloom. It took me over an hour to work my way...
View ArticleAn Iris In The Rose Garden via Instagram
What is your favorite rose? Leave a comment and share! An Iris In The Rose Garden Who says you can only have roses in a rose garden? There were a number of striking iris there, too. From the...
View ArticleHollyhocks (Alcea) are blooming via Instagram
What is your favorite rose? Leave a comment and share! Hollyhocks (Alcea) are blooming Our friends up the street have always had a wild and exuberant display of Hollyhocks in their yard. I love the...
View ArticleStinkbug (Nezara viridula) in the garden via Instagram
What insects do you find in your garden? Leave a comment and share! Stinkbug (Nezara viridula) in the garden I was out attacking the overgrown grass and weeds in the front yard when I happened on this...
View ArticleHibiscus In the Orto Botanico in the Brera District of Milan via Instagram
What is your favorite hibiscus? Leave a comment and share! Hibiscus In the Orto Botanico in the Brera District of Milan Shining out against the darkness of the shade in the garden, this hibiscus almost...
View ArticleA Purple Iris In The Rose Garden via Instagram
What are your favorite flowers? Leave a comment and share! A Purple Iris In The Rose Garden Who says you can only have roses in a rose garden? There were a number of striking iris there, too. From the...
View ArticleCarabus (?) Beetle In The Garden via Instagram
What insects do you find in your garden? Leave a comment and share! Carabus (?) Beetle In The Garden When you start working in the garden and get down close to the soil, you notice things that might...
View ArticleLavender In The Neighborhood via Instagram
What are your favorite flowers? Leave a comment and share! Lavender In The Neighborhood Lavender (lavendula) does well here in the Mediterranean climate of the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. Even...
View ArticleBlueberry Flowers via Instagram
What are your favorite fruits ? Leave a comment and share! Blueberry Flowers via Instagram Hints of the blueberry crop to come in my sister’s Ohio garden. and Follow Join A Gardener’s Notebook on...
View ArticleWatsonia in the Cal Poly Pomona Rose Garden via Instagram
What are your favorite flowers? Leave a comment and share! Watsonia in the Cal Poly Pomona Rose Garden More plants from the @calpolypomona rose garden. I think it at nearly the height of its bloom. It...
View ArticleStriking Yellow Roses via Instagram
What is your favorite rose? Leave a comment and share! Striking Yellow Roses More roses from the @calpolypomona rose garden. I think it at nearly the height of its bloom. It took me over an hour to...
View ArticleLily-of-the-Valley via Instagram
What is your favorite ground cover plant? Leave a comment and share! Lily-of-the-Valley A lovely specimen from my sister’s Ohio garden. So wish we could grow these here in the San Fernando Valley....
View ArticleRhododendrons On Full Flower via My Instagram
What is your favorite flower? Leave a comment and share! Rhododendrons On Full Flower These rhodies — and several others — were in full flower in my sister’s Ohio garden when I visited in May. Quite an...
View ArticleGreen Bean Still Life via Instagram
What is your favorite vegetable? Leave a comment and share! Green Bean Still Life I’m always intrigued by the quality of vegetables-both as food and photographic subjects-at the Sherman Oaks farmers...
View ArticleOriental Poppy at Center for Colorado Women’s History at Byers-Evans House,...
What is your favorite flower? Leave a comment and share! Oriental Poppy at Center for Colorado Women’s History at Byers-Evans House, Denver, Colorado Wandering about Denver, we happened upon this...
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