arbor day is not just for planting trees: it is also about caring for trees. so get outside and trim your loved ones...add some compost around their roots...give em a drink...show them you care.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
got beavers?
we do! i have seen beavers in rock creek park along the main branch before, but not in this spot: it's new! several small trees have been felled along our walking trail and some large tree roots have been striped of their bark, but i havent seen the actual beaver yet. looking forward to it...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
unique succulent planter
need a cool planter for your expanding succulent collection that's, uhm, different? why not a dinosaur?
why not, indeed!
Friday, April 22, 2011
a billion acts of green
you dont have to do a billion green things on earth day, but you could commit to just one. one simple act can help our lovely planet. so, head to the earth day 'billion acts of green' page and commit to install an eastern blue bird set up or eat more locally produced food or use less pesticides...whatever it is, make a commitment and follow through! i am going to (finally!) install my rain barrel, just in time for today's rain!
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
garden lights
my four chandeliers are completed and have been installed in the crystal city water park. definitely over the top: you should check them out!
Friday, April 1, 2011
cherry blossom festival 2011
despite the chilly temperatures and gusty winds, the cherry blossoms at the tidal basin are hanging in there: peak bloom time is right now through sunday! if you havent seen this annual spectacle, you are missing out! driving there and parking is difficult at best; metro + walking is what i would recommend...there are tons of activities and events both saturday and sunday all around town, so go and enjoy the pretty pink blossoms!
Monday, March 14, 2011
winter is o-v-e-r!
other than last year's hellish winter (that doesn't make sense), i can never remember the crocus blooming so late: they are usually visible sometime in february-mid february. but, it's over now, winter is...next sunday is the first day of spring...and here's the crocus to prove it!
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
strawberry festival
i has got to be the first strawberry festival of the year, the florida strawberry festival...starts today in plant city and lasts eleven days...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
meteor misses east coast
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
national bird feeding month
the birds dont really need our help to find food this time of the year, but attracting birds to your yard can make the doldrums of winter seem so much brighter! so, dutifully, i cleaned and filled my freeze-less bird bath and filled the feeders around the yard last week in honor of national bird feeding month...but no one came: it has been so cold here in the temperate mid-atlantic, that even the birds are staying indoors! the bird feeder stayed full-even the squirrels werent interested-until sunday when we got a spring preview with temperatures in the mid-40's: then i saw me some birds! i saw six swans on the potomac...an eagle sitting in her (?) nest...titmice and chickadees...a flock of blue birds hanging with a bunch of waxwings...several thousand cackling grackles...a red shouldered hawk...a coopers hawk...four or five different varieties of woodpecker-types...and a white breasted nuthatch. a ring necked kingfisher perched above my head on a dog walk by rock creek.
now there are cardinals, robins and of course, starlings.
now there are cardinals, robins and of course, starlings.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
making lemonade
as i walk around my neighborhood after snowmagedon 2.0 i cant help but notice the vast amounts of fallen brush and branches caused by last week's heavy snow/ice combo...
many of the piles have been tagged as "too large" by our sanitation engineers, so they are laying all over the place.
why not recycle some of it into something fantastic?
canadian design group urban tree salvage showed off some of their inspired pieces at the 2011 toronto design show last week.
they need to get some trucks down here stat!
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
omg: gmo alfalfa approved
for the last few years, a consortium of organic growers have fought the use of bio-engineered seed by big business. the growers are fighting the use of 'gmo's for a variety of reasons...mainly because bees pollinating genetically modified plants would also visit nearby organic crops, thus polluting them. well, according to slash food: they gave up! monsanto has just received the food and drug administration's backing to grow unrestricted amounts of alfalfa...to feed livestock, among other things...great.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Snowmagedon: Deja vu all over again
I took this a few hours ago... Now it's 8 inches deeper, dark and the power is out! ahhhh...winter!
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Monday, January 24, 2011
in need of a little sunshine and warmth?
because the snow and cold are getting old :) already.
 Tweet Bright Yellow Big Hea... $20.00 |  Bright Autumn Colors Satin -... $6.50 |
 yellow bird on a wire earrin... $28.00 |  Ring - One of a Kind Sterlin... $120.00 |
 Porcelain Egg Pendant---Spec... $13.00 |  Yellow Tin Poppy Ornament $10.00 |
 French Alphabet Le Cheval ab... $18.00 |  Sale - Celeste - Citrine an... $787.00 |
 Pastoral (3559), 16x20 Fine ... $85.00 |  Sunny Yellow Glass Oversized... $18.00 |
 KARA Yellow Citrine Headband $34.95 |  Pineapple Resin Key Ring $15.00 |
 On Sale Painting of Poppy $68.00 |  golden hues wool fingerless ... $20.00 |
 French Gold Goddess beaded f... $72.00 |  Vintage vinyl placemats, pai... $10.00 |
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Friday, January 21, 2011
garden show
get out of the frigid air and go indoors to the 68th annual cleveland home & garden show today through january 30th.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
modern landscape design
i love the seamless carpet-style design of this landscape installation in beer sheba, israel...read more about the landscape architects' concept here.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
a garden bench
a few weeks ago i went down to the national mall for a little museum hopping. i dont know if these benches are recent acquisitions by the castle or not, but i never noticed them before: they are quite beautiful and unexpected!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
best plants for winter
as the bleakness of winter gets, well, bleaker, these are the plants i wish i had planted to give me a little mid winter color...they are on my list for this year!
red twig dogwood: i like the variety with the variegated leaves so it looks good all year round.
harry lauder's walking stick:
i love this gnarly plant! i have killed several starter ones, but look forward to giving another one a try soon...
camellias!
my neighbor has a large-obviously very old-camellia shrub adjacent to her house that has huge and wonderful rose-like blooms all winter- just when you're longing for some color. i have been admiring it for many winters now, but every year its beauty continues to surprise me.
variegated holly bush...
i am not a fan of the sharp holly leaves in the summer time, with the bare feet and all. but, come winter its full silhoette is a welcome site! my favorite holly is this variegated variety: it is very festive around the holidays with the lovely red berries. many different types of birds live off of these berries in winter: robins, starlings, a bunch of different tree-clinging, wood-pecker-type birds, wax-wings (love them!) and cardinals to name a few.
hellebores...it took a few years to get my single one established, but now it blooms faithfully every late january and is even beginning to spread a bit, but i need more than one...
heathers and heaths are so pretty, especially on a wnter's day like today! this variety, Calluna vulgaris 'firefly' looks like a cluster of mini red hot pockers!
witch hazel blooms before forsythia, which i like because they signal the start of warmer days.
snow drops are
the first to show up in earliest spring: that's why they're great!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
i need blossoms!
 20 Cotton Thread Croche... $ |  He Loves Me, He Loves M... $14.94 |
 Miniature Clay Flowers,... $12.00 |  CARRY ALL RECYCLED ORGA... $15.00 |
 Handbag $35.00 |  Eternity Bloom Wreath-B... $45.00 |
 Diana - a woodland hydr... $36.00 |  ivory and maroon flower... $16.95 |
 Striped Carnelian Tree ... $12.90 |  sterling silver flower ... $248.00 |
 Chocolate and Honey Fel... $29.00 |  Original Abstract Conte... $175.00 |
 Wistful giclee fine art... $12.00 |  Felted bag - Handmade t... $249.00 |
 Spring Dogwoods $20.00 |  Hand felted fall spring... $1500.00 |
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