Author: Melissa Reading, California

Blooming Today

Jaminia Today I noticed that standards have joined the minis and tazettas in the garden. The attached photos show St. Keverne, Jaminia, and Emerald Sea x (self or serotinous) 7 W-G from Harold Koopowitz. Here in the eastern margins of…

phytoplankton bloom off Patagonia

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=48244&src=eoa-iotd This satellite photo from NASA shows the wildest phytoplankton bloom I’ve ever seen imaged. It is in the area off the coast of the argentine Patagonia, a little south of the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. Melissa

Ta Julia 1/90

Loyce: We don’t have snow here, but this morning there were waterdroplets galore on everything. Here’s a little Rod Barwick bulbocodium I got at the Tacoma auction: Ta Julia 1/90. I brought it in this morning to enjoy on the…

late autumn, California

The pots are set out again in their places, after having spent the summer in the shade along the fences.  Despite our mild freezes the past few nights, the Nerine bowdenii and Alstroemeria "Inca Ice" are unscathed.  The one lonely…

Yearbook

Indeed, if you’ve seen the lively article that Gwynne Davies wrote on the ADS Convention in Murphys last March for the Daffodil, Snowdrop, and Tulip Yearbook of the RHS, you’d understand why I enjoyed it. Thank you Gwynne! Sports enthusiasts…