I started seeds today:
Tomatillo ‘Toma verde’
Tomatoes
‘First Lady’
‘Fourth of July’
‘Tigerella’
‘Green Zebra’
‘Bloody Butcher’
‘Early Girl’
I choose tomato varieties from the seeds I had on hand, based on the number of days from transplanting till […]

It’s blooming! Emily Hoover gave me an offshoot of one of her huge Kaffir lilies several years ago. Slowly and steadily, it has grown to be about a foot tall and wide. It is so easy to take care of and is really tolerant of low light conditions. This one is flowering in a North […]

My sister spent the day with me, bless her heart. We went to the flower market at 5:30 am to pick up fake birds and butterflies for a new display garden that will be up until May 10. We took them down to Bridgeport Village and met the installation crew there, got them started.
On […]

What makes these all the more miraculous: they grow so sweetly a few feet from a busy road where 60,000 cars blast past each day.

Here is a planter I made with indoor succulents. The customer brought in a long white acrylic container.
It has two sedum varieties, jade plant, haworthia, kalanchloe, pepperomia and a few more.
Here’s where it appeared.

Anemone coronaria
RANUNCULACEAE, The Ranunculus family
I made it out into the world today - reconfigured my appraisal of the season - braved the changeable weather and walked to meet a friend. Was greeted along the way by the deep purple, nearly open blossom of windflower.

Originally uploaded by mulysa_may

Wonderful lichen at Triple falls.

The last day of the show, Sunday, is the day I realize the display garden only exists for three days and all the work the design team and crews did over the last three months will be dismantled and recycled. I want to photograph the whole garden again, to try to somehow save it. But […]