Nearing the end of summer. It sure has been a busy summer. I feel like the summer flew by. On our tiny roof garden the plants have been thriving. This mornings harvest was a handful of cherry tomatoes, okra, and cayenne peppers. So much happening in the garden! May 8, 2016.

My week to week gardening diary. Creating and maintaining a pleached lime hedge. The pleached lime hedge in full summer splendor and below a week ago. The hedge was planted about 17 years ago as we were developing the structure of the garden. Each year the hedge was tied in and, as the trees grow, new bamboo layers were fixed in place to train in the new growth.

You Had Better Get Yourself to The Ruth Bancroft Garden. For the last few weeks here in the Bay Area. The gods were smiling that day. I love the Aechmea recurvata above, and have a couple of different varieties. From my experience, they seem to prefer soil. None of these photos were taken in any sort.

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