Sunset Cat

The garden tour was wonderful!
I worked Saturday til 1 pm but managed to visit two gardens in Santa Monica, one in Mar Vista, and one in Westchester. All were very lovely and inspiring.
The Mar Vista house especially gave me hope, as they had planted in March and August of 2006, mostly 1 gallon plants, [...]

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…and into the clear cold water! First ocean swim of the season at Veteran’s Park in Redondo Beach, just two short 1/4 mile repeats in clear green (in a nice way) 60 degree water. And dolphins! though they stayed away from us.

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Okay, here’s the list of what we planted this weekend:
Verbena lilacina (from Baja)
“Blue Mist” manzanita (ground-coverish)
2 x Heuchera “Rosada” for the shadier side yard
Heuchara maxima for the shadier side yard
Galvezia “firecracker”
Eriogonum grande rubescens
Eriogonum umbellatum
Verbena gooddingii (more of a desert plant, planted it in the gravel near one of the big rocks)
Lupinus longifolius
Arcto. manzanita
Yucca whipplei “Our [...]

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I’ve been posting my workouts on www.workoutlog.com and have thus been neglecting this blog.
Wildflower in two weeks! I feel both better prepared than last year but maybe not as prepared as I’d like to be. Since I’ve had my coach I’ve been much better about getting some cycling time in, going for lunch [...]

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We dug up some of the grass (same as we did the trees) and will be doing that throughout the yard still in hope of avoiding the use of RoundUp. We had a soft rain as we finished the planting and watering….it’s been really dry here and any rain is good.

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Spring Break, the Napa wine trip and a week of work later and here’s a quick update.
All the fruit trees are doing something. The Beverly Hills apple is the slowpoke of the bunch, just started to leaf out now, which I suppose (or at least am hoping) makes sense because it is supposed to [...]

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Just got back from our girl’s trip to Napa, and, before that, our Spring Break Southwest roadtrip (Taos, Santa Fe, and Sedona).  Lots of hiking (including with llamas!), biking, running, wine tasting! and little knitting, though I did get to visit La Lana Wool in Taos (how’s that for a teaser?).
The pic is of [...]

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