Deirdre Saoirse Moen » gardening http://deirdre.net Sounds Like Weird Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:37:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Southern Hemisphere Plants http://deirdre.net/downunder/ http://deirdre.net/downunder/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:06:16 +0000 deirdre http://deirdre.net/?p=460 For the last two weekends, we’ve visited the UCSC Arboretum, which specializes in plants of the southern hemisphere, specifically South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. One of my favorite discoveries is this Banksia. At first, I thought someone had added the brown “elf,” but then I realized it was a dried flower.

More photos.

]]> http://deirdre.net/downunder/feed/ 0 Our Garden http://deirdre.net/our-garden/ http://deirdre.net/our-garden/#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:29:25 +0000 deirdre http://deirdre.net/?p=447 I got my new camera today, a Panasonic Lumix GF-1 in pink. I had to test it out, right?

So I took pictures of our garden, which can be found here.

]]> http://deirdre.net/our-garden/feed/ 0 Edible Landscaping http://deirdre.net/edible-landscaping/ http://deirdre.net/edible-landscaping/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:28:00 +0000 deirdre http://deirdre.net/?p=438 Saturday, we’ll be going on Common Ground’s Edible Landscaping Tour. If you’re in the SF bay area and interested in organic gardening, it’s worth the day’s crawl. Last year, two of the gardens were Jesse Cool’s and the Warnocks. Picture of the latter:

Edible Landscaping Tour

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