Virtual Opening of Keukenhof Gardens
While many botanical gardens and properties are suffering right now having no visitors or revenue due to Covid-19 shutdowns, many have have pivoted to digital experiences that all of us can enjoy remotely. Keukenhof Gardens in Holland has offered one such video of their Garden Opening that was posted in April. It’s a wonderful way […]
The Best Produce Containers
I am IN LOVE with these Oxo containers! I found them at the Container Store and they have transformed my relationship with fresh vegetables from the garden as my freshly washed produce now stays fresh for even longer in these containers. They are called Greensaver Produce Keepers by OXO and they come in a variety […]
Filoli Opens Today
Susie shared with me that Filoli is opening today. What great news! This opening is a sign that we’re beginning to return to some kind of normalcy in our lives. From Filoli’s website: Filoli was built for Mr. and Mrs. William Bowers Bourn II, prominent San Franciscans, whose chief source of wealth was the Empire […]
Holland’s Keukenhof
My friend Trish sends me all kinds of interesting articles, videos, images – you name it! Yesterday she sent me a wonderful link to My Modern Met with a photographic feast of Holland’s Keukenhof’s tulips. I wasn’t familiar with this garden, so I looked up a little information about it. Keukenhof, also known as the […]
Potato Salad
I’m looking for ways to use up the vegetables coming out of my garden right now that can also use ingredients I already have at home (no trip to the grocery store!). I figured out I could make potato salad which would use up some of my freshly-picked green onions and celery. I found several […]
San Francisco Flower Market is open
I was very excited to learn that the San Francisco Flower Mart has re-opened, honoring “approved safety restrictions”. If you don’t have a wholesale badge, the hours of operation are M-F 9:00 – 3:00 and Saturdays from 8:00 – 3:00. Did you know that the SFFM is one of only five grower-owned wholesale flower markets […]
Coleslaw from the garden
I’m trying to use up the cabbage and onion from our garden, so today I made coleslaw for lunch which called for both. Because my provisions are minimal at this point due to Sheltering in Place and I’ll do anything to keep from going to the grocery store, I needed an easy recipe. This one […]
Compassion during these times
It would be cavalier not to mention that while some of us are working in and enjoying our gardens, most of us are struggling through Coronavirus times in one way or another. We’ve heard that we’re “all in the same boat” but we’re actually all experiencing this moment differently depending upon our geography, type of […]
Sauteed Cabbage
We picked our very first cabbage yesterday which was planted in late January from starts. It’s the first time I’ve grown cabbage as it hasn’t been the first vegetable that comes to my mind for my vegetable garden. But I will plant it going forward. I went online to figure out how I wanted to […]
An abundance of Onions
This past week, we harvested the rest of our onions. You would think I would have learned my lesson about planting more than I need after a prior year’s crazy fava bean experience, but NO. I don’t know what we were thinking to plant so many onions! We finally had to pull them out of […]
Yellow Flowers
We have had yellow in our garden forever partially (and honestly) because our home is painted yellow. I love the color in our garden, especially combined with white, apricot and purple. Many of my yellow flowers are out now, including the Gold Medal rose above. My favorite yellow rose, featured above, is Helmut Schmidt. This […]
A Green and White Garden
Green and white are my favorite colors in my garden. While I certainly have other colors, I am always attracted to any new plants that will yield white blooms. The colors are so serene together and everywhere I look right now I am being rewarded with abundant white flowers by all of those plants I […]
3 tips for growing clematis
One plant I look forward to seeing in the spring is my clematis, which I’ve been slowly adding to my garden over the past couple of years. Some are in full bloom this week in my Napa Valley garden while others are on the cusp of blooming. They’ve been pretty easy to grow, but this […]
Plant these vegetables now
When I learned that we were going to be “sheltering in place” through – at least – the end of April, I thought about what I could plant in my vegetable garden today that would yield veggies that we could enjoy as soon as possible. The conclusion? Radishes and lettuces. On Monday morning, Anton and […]
My early garden
Alex and I headed up to the Napa Valley for a change of scenery this weekend and discovered that spring has sprung very early this year – perhaps by 3 weeks! I can’t believe all that’s blooming. Even some of my roses are blooming! Here are some of my favorite blooms… Nuccio’s Gem camellias I […]