I have never deliberately taken photos of the plants in my garden before. Which is kind of strange considering I have had so many different gardens in the past 5 or so years. And that I spend all summer alternating between engaging in war with crab grass (which is my nemesis) and standing around smiling proudly at my planties and flowies. So here is my first deliberately documented garden.
I love bougainvillea so was really happy to find a bush of it growing in the garden of our new place in Oakland. I quickly noticed that many other people in the neighborhood had bougainvillea growing in their gardens, but their’s were bursting with blooms while ours had just a few flowers and seemed mostly made of sticks.
All it took was a sprinkle of fertilizer to make the blooms burst out of our bougainvillea. Now it is happy-looking and there are so many flowers, I often cut pieces off to bring indoors.
I LOVE fuschia – it really brings back memories of the garden I grew up in. It was the only decent plant I could find at the Home Depot by my house a month or so ago, and as