Member profile for lfin
 Gardening since 1987
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Friends know that I can usually be found in a garden. Since moving to Rome in 2002, I traded my kitchen garden for a terrace above the Eternal City and, instead of a perennial border, I have grown my business -- which is visiting historic gardens -- and I design my visits rather than the planting beds.
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Vertical Flash San Francisco, CA
These are some interesting vertical gardens I have seen this month in San Francisco
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lisaland to lotusland Santa Barbara, CA
One of America's grandest private gardens. Ganna Walska'soriginal garden "rooms" style of garden design was built over 40 years, from 1940 until her death. The plant collections have been restored, improved and amplified by the current garden management: additionally...
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Camellia Oasis -- Descanso Garden (Flintridge) La Canada Flintridge, CA
Manchester Boddy's rancho, developed while he ran LA's only liberal newspaper in the 1930's, is the center of controversy even today. When WWII came, he was a "placeholder" landlord for a Japanese nurseryman and family who were interned. He returned the property...
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Getty Villa, a new and improved Villa Papyrus Santa Barbara, CA
In 1974, J. Paul Getty, the world's wealthiest man, recreated the summer home of Julius Caesar's father-in-law. At that time and continuing to this day, the 2000year-old luxury villa was just being excavated from the mud and lava of the Vesuvius Volcano's storied...
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Rome's Protestant Cemetery Italy
Located between two sets of perimeter walls of ancient Rome, this cemetery is the final resting place of anyone who could not be buried in the Catholic cemetary (Verano) in Rome. So, Muslims, Jews, Orthodox and Protestants, residents and travelers alike, are planted...
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Tulipmania and Cardinal Borghese Italy
The Borghese were upper middle class merchants in Rome at the end of the Renaissance. But in those days wealthy and wealthier families were a dime a dozen and to assure your legacy in history, you needed a Pope in the family. And Villa Borghese was the billboard,...
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The Land Beyond the Keyhole Italy
Like the Vatican which it protects, the Knights of Malta are one of three sovreign nations in the City of Rome. Their nation is about a 2 hectare (5 acre) bit of land atop one of the original seven hills of the Eternal City. Originally the Knights Templar, after...
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Our Grounds Des Moines, IAOrnamental, 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...
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Boston Fenway Victory Garden Boston, MA
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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...
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The Green Gardener in Herald, California Herald, CAGreetings 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....
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Patterns of Growth Fremont, CAMy 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...
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UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley Berkeley, CA |
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Entertaining and Food making Garden The Gap, Australia
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pizza_oven
Rather bushy type of garden, backyard that is. Large trees making shade but sunny patches are still around. Lots of wild-life and fuel for cooking in efficient wood fired brick pizza oven , baking breads, roasting...
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Dikran's Masterpiece in progress Boston, MA
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RMGfbs
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Claire's Amsterdam Balcony Netherlands
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Claire
A small balcony in Amsterdam, with morning sun. Click on the photos for more explanation!
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Your Entomolo-Garden Oakland, CAWelcome 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...
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Serenity Now South Londonderry, PAFlower gardens, herb garden, 3 vegetable gardens... I just keep digging up my children's grassy yard and growing them organic food!
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The Dorrs' Garden Omaha, NEI have one kitchen plot (7.5' x 3.5') on the south side and will be adding another this year. Elsewhere, we have perennial flowers and shrubs.
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Party dresses for Fairies Germantown, NY
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wixboyle
I have an embarrassment of peony riches at my home in the Hudson Valley and I am a peony junkie. I have always loved these late spring blooming plants for the showy blossoms which look, for all the world, like party...
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DeLoach Vineyards Santa Rosa, CAThe DeLoach garden was the winery’s horse pasture for 23 years; since 1995, this half-acre located near the floodplain of the Russian River in Sonoma county is a wonderfully rich growing area, with night temperatures...
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Front Yard Chesapeake, VA
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brennandunn
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como giardino del tetto Italy
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como
a corner roof terrace with approximately 150 square meters of formal garden and a similar size informal garden
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The Gardens of Sage Hill Farms Petersburg, TN
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sagelady
Sage Hill is a combination of herbs-culinary and medicinal, flowers for their being, and vegetables for family and sharing.
There is a business side to Sage Hill...culinary herbs , both fresh and dried, blended...
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'Antenna Farm' Butler, PAK3SAM. My husband is a ham radio operator Extra class. Extra class is the highest license an operator can have. He has his own website and is webmaster of another. I want to thank him for his help and the endless questions...
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Quince Denver, CO
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Acantholimon
Half acre of intensive gardens: Everything from veggies and herbs to classic perennials, rock garden, extensive xeriscape, prairie, bulbs galore, and many alpine plants in troughs and crevice gardens. Over 60 kinds...
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Mid-Atlantic Garden Retreat Wilmington, DEI have many diverse gardens at my home landscape as well as a community garden plot where I grow vegetables.
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Garden of Verdure Winter Springs, FL
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Betty
My front yard is sunny and somewhat like an English garden. One side-yard is sunny and is all plants (roses, flower, herbs) and mulch. The other side and backyard is mostly shade with appropriate shade plants.
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The Japanese Garden - Balboa Park Van Nuys, CA
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Joshua9060
The Japanese Garden (http://www.thejapanesegarden.com/garden.html)
Suiho En the garden of water and fragrance
is a 6½ acre authentic Japanese
garden fashioned after “stroll
gardens” constructed...
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Room 608 - The Wolfpatch Claremont, CA
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mollyfin
My classroom has a large patio behind it that just begged to be a garden. We built containers with donated lumber and got started. It's been a learning experience for all, with success and failure. This year we are...
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Art Monastery Project Italy
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artmonastery
Just setting up our garden at our monastery in Labro, Italy.
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Ecuador Flower & Garden Tour Quito, EcuadorEcuador is situated on the Equator in western South America. The country offers all ecosystems from sea level up to 6310 meters. In Ecuador we organize several times a year a Tour where we visit various Flower Plantations...
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front sun perennial garden Milwaukee, WI
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ursula
sun garden in the front of the house. we moved into house September 2002. bought house because it ahd a lot of promising outdoor space for gardening. by spring of 2004 i started the front sun garden - it started as...
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Backyard Garden near Phoenix, AZ Glendale, AZ
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ThreePts
Welcome to my attempt at vegetable gardening in the backyard of a small condo with raised beds. A bed that receives no direct sun during the winter and way too much in the hot Arizona summer. This is my journey.
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winterdreams 62020 Gualdo, MC, Italy
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carola
here is more to find and appreciate in the cold winter-months than i ever could. had to catch it (on film? no more...) on !disk! that's it
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Heidi's Community Garden Minneapolis, MNCommunity gardening French potager style in Zone 4A, Wayzata, Minnesota.
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Joyce's garden Saint Paul, MN
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Joycela
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Joliet, IL Joliet, IL
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jdmaher
A suburban subdivision setting, with a few novel aspects. We have a sidelot that is a water retention area and DOES fill to the rim during heavy downpours. The south side of our lot is an large, active farm field (soy...
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TomatoHeaven Saint Paul, MN
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ErinC
27 different varieties of heirloom tomatoes! No kidding. My Dad and I built this garden in 2009 a year after the neighbor's enormous Elm tree passed away. A vegetable garden in my own backyard? My own personal...
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The Paso Robles Wonder Los Gatos, CA
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Jennifferl
5 acres of fruit trees, berries, and vegetable garden
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Nic's allotment Gloucester, United Kingdomlarge allotment garden that is home to soft fruit, vegetables, herbs and trees and ... lots of weeds!
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Pastor Bob's hunger garden Des Moines, IAA new, young garden for growing vegetables to be donated to groups in Des Moines that help the hungry, especially children. No digging, no tilling. The first step was yesterday (Sept 6, 2010). Eight of us spread newspapers...
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The 'Hood' Des Moines, IAAn accidental neighborhood arboretum, consisting of front and back yard gardens and many trees and shrubs, some planted one hundred years ago
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Garden in the Street Des Moines, IAAn evolving ornamental garden of perennials and bulbs in a formerly all-grass traffic circle at the intersection of two quiet residential streets. Maintained by volunteers, mulch and compost provided by the city, weeding...
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Pocket garden Des Moines, IANot my garden. Look closely. It's a garden on an urban corner with buildings on two sides that have the garden painted on them. This is in an old suburb of St. Louis. Photos are 30 years old. The garden is no longer...
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Our Grounds Des Moines, IAOrnamental, 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...
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Blueberry Mountain Marshall, NC
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Melissa
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AdamsCrest Farm Richmond, CAAdamsCrest Farm is an Urban Permaculure learning center that is currently blossoming in the beautiful foothills of Richmond, CA. We want to create a space where community members can come learn how to grow organic food,...
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AAS Winners 2011 Downers Grove, IL
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AASWinners
These flowers and vegetables have been trialed nationally and proven locally, resulting in them being named AAS Winners, meaning they will perform well in your garden.
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SugarHouse Farm Altadena, CA
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mrchickendog
I am currently working with a 50'x50' square. I divided the north side into 5 separate 4x8 raised beds. South side into 5 separate 4'x4' beds. I am currently lobbying my wife to remove all the sod in the backyard!!...
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Humble Garden Wales, MA
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nika
Welcome to our very Humble Garden!We will blog our journey as we finally build our raised beds, our chicken house, our wood shed, and the biomass microgenerator that will power and heat these things.We are a family...
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AdamsCrest Farm Richmond, CAAdamsCrest Farm is an Urban Permaculure learning center that is currently blossoming in the beautiful foothills of Richmond, CA. We want to create a space where community members can come learn how to grow organic food,...
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Missouri Botanical Garden (Shaw's Garden) Saint Louis, MOPhotos from 2007 Dale Chihuly exhibit at Shaw's Garden, St. Louis MO
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Marie's containers & gardens Skippack, PA
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MariesGarden
Variety of sun and shade beds with many varieties of unusual annuals, perennials and hydrangeas
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Keli's Garden Santa Clara, CA
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KelisGarden
We live in a condo and my garden is a wrap-around patio. When we moved in it was all white rock and no plants. Now it is a peaceful retreat with raised beds and many, many pots.
I grow flowers for my soul and...
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Giardino Botanico 'Lama degli Ulivi' Monopoli (Bari), Italy
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FavoleVerdi
Una piega suggestiva tra le lenzuola di terra a sud d'Italia...www.lamadegliulivi.it
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A Central Florida Garden Loughman, FL
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jhammond
I am currently interested in container veggie gardening, fruit trees, creating a tea & herb garden, and maintaining my daughters flower cutting garden. Everything else is just an experiment.
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Taste of Heaven Sioux Falls, SD
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LaurieLou
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JuanJardín Medellín, Colombia
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JSEC
I have been interested in orchids since 2009 and have become to be a serious enthusiast. Now I want to get into urban agriculture, mainly growing veggies in small spaces like apartments. Soon my wife and me are going...
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Filoli Garden, Bay area, California Redwood City, CALocated 30 miles south of San Francisco, Filoli is an historic site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and one of the finest remaining country estates of the early 20th century.
This 654-acre property,...
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Earth Day Public Garden San Francisco, CAWhat’s happening on Earth Day and where can you find an Earth Day event? Look no further than your own backyard. This year YourGardenShow is inviting people from across the United States to become Citizen Scientists...
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Crabapple collection Des Moines, IAThe Arie den Boer Arboretum in Des Moines, Iowa, was started in t1930 by one guy, the well known horticulturist Arie den Boer, who collected cultivars of crabapples from around the world. Some are to be found in no...
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Secret Life of Quilting Bees Norman, OK
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geomauldin
I love flowers, so all I grow is flowers. I am also a quilter. Quilting and gardening seem to go hand in hand!
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Austin Vegetable Garden Austin, TX
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bertski
We bought our house six years ago. After years of staring out the back window at the wasteland that was our yard, we finally took the plunge and started a garden. The soil, if you can call it that, was in terrible condition....
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Kinderboerderij Moestuin Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Kris
Initially told the ground was polluted...but never say never to someone from the East Coast. Had a soil test done and just to be on the safe side we started modestly with a patch of 6 x 6 feet which we dug down 2,5...
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Home Garden Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Kris
For those of use without a garden in the city urban gardening against the front wall, on the balcony and the roof terrace is the only way to go. In Amsterdam a whole subculture has developed (at least in my neighborhood)...
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My little piece of Heaven New Lenox, IL
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Meezer3
A ongoing and constantly evolving little plot of dirt I am trying to improve on and make it my little piece of Heaven. From a empty weedfilled lot on a new construction site to, one day, my own little "Biltmore Estate"....
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Flight 272 Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands
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MartinKempff
I took over this allotment garden near Halfweg to escape the daily noise in my house in the centre of Amsterdam.After some time I really got interested in gardening and the beauty of plants and flowers.I like my...
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my terrace in June, 2010 Italy
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Patricia
My terace is very hot and sunny AND very windy. Not many plants like it, but petunias, herbs, roses, wild strawberries and succulents, jasmine and a lemon tree-and of course geraniums- are some of the survivors.
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YourGardenShow Busy Bee San Francisco, CA
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The-Busy-Bee
YourGardenShow.com - the social network for gardeners, by gardeners
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| Favorite gardening books: | Noah's Garden, Any book by Georgina Masson |
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| Favorite vegetable: | broccoli, eggplant but especially in Italy' when you say "melenzana" it's practically already a banquet, it's such a beautiful word. |
| Favorite flower: | Irises are great and are the gift that keeps giving since they need to be divided and reset every 3rd year. It's a birthday gift I grow for nearby friends with summer birthdays. |
| Favorite tree / shrub: | olive for tree - ever green, fruiting, longest-lived, easily transplanted, a wonderful shade of grey, from the Mediterranean, and then the amelanchior a North American 4-season interest fruiting bush. |
| Gardening organizations: | Local Botanical garden, Local Arboretum, Local conservation group, National Phenology Network, Garden Writers Association, and American Community Garden Association |
| Favorite park / arboreteum: | UC Berkeley Botanical Garden |
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