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The Blue Honeywort (Cerinthe major var. purpurascens) should have died back after the frosts a couple weeks ago, but it seems to have sprung some new growth.
It's also sprung some new offspring. I thought I grabbed all the seeds off this plant, but clearly I missed some. I first saw this stuff on a garden tour in Livermore, and the woman who owned it said it spread like weeds. I had my doubts because the first few times I tried to grow it, it didn't take, but now I see what she's talking about.
I'll have to try to transplant these guys in the ground before the gardeners my landlord pays for mistake them for weeds and wack them down.
There's even one growing out of my Puya Alpestris.
I got the fava beans in a couple weeks ago. Which is a bit late (I read somewhere recently that you should plant your winter cover crops by Halloween in Northern CA), but they are starting to take off anyway... there's no sign of the garbanzo beans I planted at the same time.
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Every year the women in our group of friends goes Christmas Tree Hunting. We start with a big breakfast at a greasy or not so greasy diner, and follow that with some wine tasting, and then a hunt for the best tree from our favorite tree farm where the trees aren't perfectly trimmed and lined into rows, but allowed to grow every which way and every type of tree is grown.
I brought the cannas inside for last nights freeze, but not the bananas (which really need it) because they are infested with ants. Poor bananas.
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Who can tell me what this one is? I saw it growing all over Las Vegas, NV. I love it and I want one.
This plant is part of the landscaping that came with the rented house we live in. It hasn't bloomed since we moved in 5 years ago because the owners gave strict instruction to keep all the shrubs trimmed into small boxes. This year, it has been my goal to get them to bloom. every time the gardeners come to the house I aske them no tho touch these shurbs, and did all the triming myself so the shrubs wouldn't get in their way while mowing. Now they have finally bloomed! and while they look a bit like the troll dolls with the wild hair, it's much better in my opinion then looking at a shrub pruned to resemble a popsicle stick, and not let them bloom ever.
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