My Favorite Plants
Cacti and succulents, herbs, native plants of the West.
Plants Currently in My Garden
My garden here in Palm Springs lives in a tropical desert and I strive to grow as wide a diversity of species as will tolerate our extreme summer heat. It was influenced by my mentor, Clark Moorten of Moorten Botanical Garden in town here. He is a collector of cacti and succulents. I maintain a huge collection of my own cacti and succulents, many rare and propagated from Clark's world class collection. But I also grow desert perennials in a cottage garden.
I love to garden, because....
Gardening and the plant kingdom roots us into the earth. Plants also define locale more than anything else, and they have history with every culture, linking me in my little piece of ground with humanity around the globe.
Biggest Gardening Challenge
Here in Palm Springs it is unquestionably the extreme desert heat which can reach 120 degrees in the summer but averages about 110 for July and August.
If I'm not gardening, I can be found:
Riding my quarter horse Sassy out into the wildlands of the desert outside town, whhere trails go on FOREVER. I also escape the heat by going horse camping in the mountains during the summer.
Other Hobbies
I have always been creative and though my time is split between garden, horse and work, when there is leftover time I love to create glass mosaics which adorn my garden.
Eons ago, moths quit the daytime and found it safer to chase flowers after dark. Though they're often overlooked due to the bright and colorful but ... more
Color, texture, paint, paper, paintings, vases, sculptures and objects d'art are all so familiar to us. Maybe it's because Mom shared her love of h ... more
While looking for bulb shots for our upcoming newsletter article I came upon some really great shots of ways to use bulbs that aren't the same old ... more
Thank you thank you, what that lady did fits my personality so well, I will be looking around at 2nd hand stores for unusual parasols etc, that say "Wendy is the flower lady of these dahlias ", I.E. Tigger, Pooh, 3 Stooges, Jesus, It will be for kids , that is for sure next year I'll have to add kid benches "inside" the secret dahlia place :)
Thank you for your comment, it really has been mostly fun over the last 15 years. When kids come every year with their parents , they have really grown in 15 years !! There are some down sides to it when people steal and also, I have to bring the flowers in every day about 1 pm as it is hot here in grants pass OR, but I really do enjoy it. I am very social, but stuck at home a lot because of health issues , so I have always enjoyed my Flower Lady table and title. I truly should and could write a book of the stories of the people that buy flowers. One nice young fella about 20, he comes by about every 3-4 days and buys $1 worth, and his dad died 3 years ago to cancer, and he puts the flowers he buys in a vase by his dad's urn. Oh my, those stories and so many others are huge blessings ;) ure glad God made flowers so pretty ;)
My Favorite Plants
Cacti and succulents, herbs, native plants of the West.
Plants Currently in My Garden
My garden here in Palm Springs lives in a tropical desert and I strive to grow as wide a diversity of species as will tolerate our extreme summer heat. It was influenced by my mentor, Clark Moorten of Moorten Botanical Garden in town here. He is a collector of cacti and succulents. I maintain a huge collection of my own cacti and succulents, many rare and propagated from Clark's world class collection. But I also grow desert perennials in a cottage garden.
I love to garden, because....
Gardening and the plant kingdom roots us into the earth. Plants also define locale more than anything else, and they have history with every culture, linking me in my little piece of ground with humanity around the globe.
Biggest Gardening Challenge
Here in Palm Springs it is unquestionably the extreme desert heat which can reach 120 degrees in the summer but averages about 110 for July and August.
If I'm not gardening, I can be found:
Riding my quarter horse Sassy out into the wildlands of the desert outside town, whhere trails go on FOREVER. I also escape the heat by going horse camping in the mountains during the summer.
Other Hobbies
I have always been creative and though my time is split between garden, horse and work, when there is leftover time I love to create glass mosaics which adorn my garden.
Yes indeed. If those early forms go away we are all in alot more hurt than we may first realize!
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