Member profile for Nicolette

Gardening since 1989
  • Name: Nicolette Toussaint
  • Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Gardening experience: I'm new to gardening
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I am a San Francisco garden - drop any seed on the ground here and it grows - and also a painter. Much of what I paint is drawn from the garden, and what isn't is usually drawn from nature's garden.

I'd love to connect with other gardeners.

I'm also looking for venues in which to display my art, which can be seen on Behance at http://www.behance.net/gallery/Nature-Drawings-and-Paintings/612423
  • Member since January 04, 2011
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  • Last updated: March 22, 2011
  • Garden type: back yard

Our Grounds Des Moines, IA

Ornamental, beds and borders where evergreen conifers and deciduous shrubs mingle with perennials, bulbs, and a few favorite annuals. Some Iowa prairie plants such as side-oats grama grass. A still-water, self-maintaining...

Boston Fenway Victory Garden Boston, MA

by Kristen
In the early spring the daffodils and tulips start to poke out of the ground...the 2 lilac bushes begin their blooms soon after. During mid-May, I begin to add veggie, herb, and annual plantings. Also, my parents bring...

Your Entomolo-Garden Oakland, CA

Welcome to the Insect News Network on YourGardenShow! The I.N.N. travels the globe to learn how people think and feel about our 6- and 8-legged friends. The I.N.N. is a non-stop, multi-media interdisciplinary plunge...

Claire's Amsterdam Balcony Netherlands

by Claire
A small balcony in Amsterdam, with morning sun. Click on the photos for more explanation!

Quite Contrary PaintShop 2010 Butler, PA

This garden is copied from my 1stgarden 'Quite Contrary' by using paintshop software to enhance, add effects, and add borders and frames to the photos. I use a Kodak 'EasyShare'2710 that has a 10x zoom to take the photos...

jjs Cle Elum, WA

by JJS
simple

The Green Gardener in Herald, California Herald, CA

Greetings from Herald, CA. Located just South East of Sacramento by 20 miles. Millions of grape vines cover the Herald landscape and vegetables grow well here with a good compost pile to nourish our Green Garden....

Patterns of Growth Fremont, CA

My garden is my art, literally. I grow plants so I can photograph them in new and interesting ways. There is such a variety of plants in the San Francisco Bay Area and I pluck not only from my yard, but along the trail...

In Harmony San Anselmo, CA

Since I began studying permaculture in 2004, I have been shifting more towards growing plants that are edible, medicinal, insectary, nitrogen fixing, native, or can be used to create natural dyes.

YourGardenShow Busy Bee San Francisco, CA

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  • Entomolo-garden replied about 2 years ago
    Hello Nicolette - Thanks for following Your Entomolo-Garden.  Sorry it took me a while to check in with you.  I invite you to send me any interesting pics or videos of insects or other little critters that come your way in the Spring.  Plus, check in with my friend Dana Smith at the Stone Griffin Art Gallery in Campbell, CA. Tell him I sent you - I think he would like your art.  Thanks, Emmet
    Nicolette replied over 2 years ago
    I waited forever, it seemed, for a snap of cold weather to arrive in San Francisco. I was worried about cutting the roses back too soon; until they feel chilled, they don't know that it's time to chill out.I usually cut back to canes between Thanksgiving (when the last blossoms appear) and Christmas. But this year, I waited into January.It seems that the cold snap whipped by awfully quickly. The bulbs are already coming out, and those newly cut roses are budding already.I'm a fan of dichromatic roses, by the way.I'm a watcrcolor painter, as well as a gardener. I just wrote a blog about a painting called "Passion of the Honeybee" which is about planting passiflora to provide variety for bees.