Mother Nature

I love the craziness of my garden, the way it takes on a life of its own from something I created and others I didn’t. This raised bed was made from discarded 2 x4s my neighbor and I found. The small green wood box was  discarded in the street as well. I painted it green. The bottom has fallen out, [...]

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Cafe Flowers (or My Water Cooler)

Today is my two year anniversary of keeping the cafe flowers . Two years ago I sat and sipped coffee beside one of these enormous cement pots. A dead gardenia bush stuck from it’s center while an array of cigarettes and detritus floated about it. It was appalling.

I went inside at the urging of a waitress I knew and [...]

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New Cafe Blooms

Hello, Just checking in. Letting you all know I’m still here. DahliaFound has been picking up business and I’m so happy. So I’ve been shopping and trying to get more posted. It never ends.
Meanwhile, amidst the world havoc I thought I’d take a minute today to appreciate my flowers. I’ve been gardening now for a [...]

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Squash Blossoms & Joyous Gardens

I replanted my compost pile that was sprouting all kinds of interesting buds into one of my raised beds and it has suddenly found it’s roots, so to speak. Squash blossoms have appeared and some have already moved onto some kind of squash, to be determined later. They could be anything, pumpkins, yellow squash, green [...]

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Here Comes the Sun…

It’s finally Monday. I almost feel relieved. Long complicated family weekend. Exhausted. But the sun is out! The SUN! (we have not seen it truly out, in a blue sky for many days. . . this is California. We need that.) So no time to chat right now. Zephyr and i both desperately need a [...]

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