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Zone 9, mediterranean gardens, garden education, west coast gardening, Native gardens, drought tolerant, green gardens, California gardens, Sacramento Valley gardens, kids in the garden,Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.comBlogger232125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-77975545392978376152015-01-29T08:18:00.001-08:002015-01-29T08:18:37.316-08:00Blueberries for JeannieWoke up early this morning thinking about blueberries and my garden and my blog, life. My husband thought I might be "tetched" in the head, but it was really a poetic sort of moment. I wanted to be up with the sunrise, planning my blueberry patch for the front yard. I thought about the children's classic, Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey. My oldest daughter, Julie, is up for a visit ... Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-18046534061662051572014-03-21T21:58:00.000-07:002014-03-27T19:33:18.055-07:00San Francisco Flower & Garden ShowMy friend, Darlene, and I headed to the Bay Area yesterday for the SF Flower and Garden Show. This guy from the Lyngso Garden Materials was there to greet everyone!
My favorite display garden was created by Jim Grandy, the Bamboo Man. Sometimes in a convention center it's hard to get good photos and this small piece of his is the best I have. But, did he have Japanese tea houses!!! If I ever Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-43251817801626770532013-11-30T11:00:00.000-08:002013-11-30T11:30:54.183-08:00Give-Away Deadline Extended to Sunday at 6 pmIn honor of giving me a break (!) so I can get my design projects done today, I'm extending the deadline for my 5th Blogoverary Give-Away Extravaganza to tomorrow at 6 pm! Here's a reminder of what's up for grabs:
Veg - Fruit Shears from Corona Tools
The Variety 3-pack Manure Tea from Moo Poo Tea
A Tin of Seeds (from any of the 8 collections) from Peaceful Valley Farm and Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-72101459541790142692013-11-29T23:46:00.002-08:002013-11-30T00:09:32.219-08:00Garden Gifting/Garden Give-AwayI want to give special space to the last part of tomorrow's giveaway ... a collection of 10 organic seed packets in their own cute tin from Peaceful Valley Farm and Garden. I love seeds and tins, so I'm hooked. This would be a great item to win, and, an excellent present as well. There are 8 collections in all. (Check them all out: Edible Front Yard, Crafter's Delight, Grandma's Root Cellar Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-88876537893135216072013-11-28T15:49:00.002-08:002013-11-28T15:49:38.367-08:00ThankfulJeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-31527236886197355262013-11-27T23:23:00.003-08:002013-11-27T23:25:09.986-08:00Wordless Wednesday - Japanese Zen Garden
From my Pinterest Board, "Theme Gardens" ... my most popular "Pin"
Visit gardening-quick-n-easy.com
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Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-82524266406723211342013-11-26T19:53:00.002-08:002013-11-27T12:15:36.745-08:005th Blogoversary Give-Away ... Sweetening the Pot!
The 5th anniversary of this blog was in August! I ambitiously had back-to-back give-aways lined up to celebrate the event, with all of the prizes coming from the sponsors of the (I know, I know, I talk about it way too much), the 6th Annual Garden Bloggers Fling ...
A paused moment in the garden binging, I mean, flinging.
Well, concurrently with this ambition, was a bunch of new clients! Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-23649946067385560822013-11-25T23:58:00.001-08:002013-11-26T10:56:29.559-08:00Garden Adventures: Palm Desert Plants
Here's a compendium (!) of plants from my walk-arounds at La Quinta Resort in the Palm Desert. All of them drought-tolerant and perfectly at home in this environment characterized by hot summers and low rainfall. All of them, except for the last (ahem).
Agave americana, Century Plant
Fouquieria splendens, Octotillo
Opuntia, Prickly Pear
Cactus, ???
Cercidium Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-38182544400698428892013-11-24T14:49:00.000-08:002013-11-24T15:07:18.955-08:00Garden Adventures: Playground of the Rich and Famous, and Me! La Quinta Resort
Two years ago I spent a few days at La Quinta Resort near Palm Springs, with nothing to do with my time but roam around, look at plants, shop, eat great food and absorb some history ...
That's me!
From the La Quinta Resort website:
"In the early 1920s, San Francisco businessman Walter H. Morgan was drawn to a place in the California desert that dwellers in these lands had long Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-81221309495007472132013-11-24T00:03:00.001-08:002013-11-24T00:03:26.513-08:00Garden Adventures: La Quinta Resort in Palm Springs
Two years ago, my husband and I took a business trip to Palm Springs where we stayed at La Quinta Resort. Now a fancy Waldorf-Astoria hotel with a world-class tennis club and surrounded by golf courses, back in its early days it was a quiet hacienda retreat in the Palm Desert.
From the website: "Before it became an oasis of lush gardens, La Quinta Resort and Club was just a 26 casita Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-67230073176605986102013-11-22T23:33:00.004-08:002013-11-23T00:04:40.600-08:00Garden Gifting
A few gift ideas for the garden crazies in your life!
1. A Gift Certificate
Annie's Annuals and Perennials
Now til the end of the year, 15% off all gift cards at Annie's Annuals
2. Boulders
Mid-Valley Rock Yard
May sound really weird, but boulders really bring about the glimmer in a gardener's eye. The bigger they are, the bigger the glimmer! But big also equals heavy liftingJeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-77194343148505551372013-11-21T23:56:00.002-08:002013-11-22T09:15:47.887-08:00An Author's Garden - At Home with Rebecca SweetFunny and charming, garden design and author, Rebecca Sweet's, back yard is a welcome stop after a long - and hot - day of visiting gardens! Green, restful, cool. Rebecca's been touring with us on the Garden Bloggers Fling ... she's packed and driving to Tahoe as soon as we leave, otherwise she'd wine and dine us!!! Maybe I give her too much credit, but it seems to me her gardens are always Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-60785670163125399802013-11-20T23:00:00.000-08:002013-11-20T23:00:53.094-08:00Wordless Wednesday: Macro Novice
Black-Eyed Susan
Rhododendron
Gingko
Hydrangea
Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-26035875504694161032013-11-19T22:27:00.001-08:002013-11-19T22:27:10.185-08:00The Belated Blogoversary Botanical Interests GiveawayBotanical Interests in Colorado was one of the sponsors of our 6th Garden Bloggers Fling (San Francisco, July, 2013). A while ago (4 years of ago), I did a primer on growing vegetables for GalTime, using the info on the Botanical Interests seed packets, and got to do a give-away with their seeds.
Since my 5th blogging anniversary was in August, I asked them if they'd sponsor my give-away. Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-56160155873759332862013-11-18T21:47:00.002-08:002013-11-18T21:54:20.658-08:00Garden Bloggers Fling - A California Kiss Above the town of Walnut Creek, on the hill overlooking the valley, is a garden that is like a California kiss!
Don't you think so, too?
This landscape has it all ... a place to stroll, a place to putter
a place to sit and watch
the grass grow and grow, happy that it needs no mower!
A place to listen to the sounds of one's own creek ...
and Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-17825442292364706902013-11-17T20:35:00.000-08:002013-11-17T20:35:13.340-08:00L.A. Bits 'n PiecesFrom my L.A. Trip in June ...
Clockwise from the upper left: I'd like this truck!, baby squash and blueberries at the Hollywood Farmer's, Market, perennial morning glory cloaking building next to a West Hollywood nursery, Bitches Brew!, nasturtium and spanish steps, my daughter, Julie's art
Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-64602463950049278122013-11-17T00:07:00.001-08:002013-11-17T00:12:01.307-08:00Garden Adventures: Golden Gate Park Conservatory of Flowers
The Conservatory's website has a great history detailed on it, and I realize in writing this that many of the dates coincide with my parents and grandparents lives. The Conservatory was opened to the public in 1897. My mom's maternal parents came to San Francisco from Ireland in the 1860's. Her father migrated from Ontario at the end of the century. My dad's parents came to San Francisco in Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-62563097821218670912013-11-15T23:53:00.003-08:002013-11-16T15:20:34.760-08:00Outdoor Classroom at Soil Born Farm in Citrus Heights
California Poppies, blooming in November!
Last week I met up with Chris and Robin of Elderberry Farms Nursery and Peter Larimer, the landscape architect who designed the new outdoor planting plan at Soil Born Farms. I'm going to be taking photos of the plants monthly so we can have a visual record of how they do. The plants are a collection of native and Mediterranean plants, all on theJeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-41907924727642772172013-11-14T23:44:00.003-08:002013-11-14T23:44:34.392-08:00A Tale of Two Houses
Garden Bloggers Fling 2013: We arrive at Filloli in Woodside, CA on the hottest day of the year. Stumbling from our bus, we scatter, looking for shade. After a visit to the cafe, we decide we need to make the best of it ... and venture forth, determined to soldier on. A nice docent suggests the film room. Ah, it's dark and cool in the center of the building ... we watch the film.
It is Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-21697658211715549552013-11-13T23:50:00.003-08:002013-11-13T23:50:40.943-08:00Tower Theatre celebrates it's 75th!
Not all of life is exciting, but it's often interesting. The leaves have been changing , that's interesting.
Driving thru the tree canopy on 15th Ave. on my way to Tower Cafe and Theater.
The Tower turned 75 on Monday. The Bee says it marked the occasion by showing the 1938 film that opened the theater, "Algiers", starring Charles Boyer (who I never Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-68507590354856365292013-11-12T22:11:00.000-08:002013-11-12T22:12:45.656-08:00Sunnyside, PortlandGrowing up, I got many opportunities to sing and dance on stage. My mother, after all, was the owner of a dance studio! One of my signature songs was, "Sunny Side of the Street"! (I had a tap dance, too!)
Grab your coat and get your hat, leave your worries on the doorstep.
Just direct your feet, to the sunny side of the street.
Can't you hear that pitter pat? And that happy tune is your step.
Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-1741520157041942262013-11-11T22:39:00.000-08:002013-11-12T09:09:35.157-08:00Sculpture in the Garden: The Ruth Bancroft Garden
I visited the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek the first time with a busload of garden enthusiasts ... then as now, there was company no finer! This summer's visit (part of the 6th Annual Garden Bloggers Fling), however, had an added pleasure; it coincided with the garden's annual sculpture show.
We meandered thru the garden on a day that was so hot, my iphone sent me a message, "turn Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-9451999884652521382013-11-10T22:34:00.000-08:002013-11-10T23:26:35.951-08:00Garden Adventures: Maple Rock Farms in NewcastleMy sister and I ventured up to Maple Rock Farm for their Tomato Fest in mid-August.
It was a hugely popular day. The Sacramento Bee did a feature on it the previous week, and probably more than 2,000 people showed up to see this newest High Hand Nursery creation. I love High Hand - it is truly one of my favorite places, with its beautiful plants, art gallery, wine tasting room, conservatory, Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-52234291150791985092013-11-09T18:09:00.000-08:002013-11-10T17:05:14.049-08:00More Lessons from the Fling: Create the Life You Love
What do you see in the picture below?
Starting from the top, the sky, a flag pole, a freeway exit sign, a hillside, and what's that??? Read on ...
Under the freeway, on the side of a hill, an artist and his wife have created the perfect home for themselves!
Formerly the sculptor, Matt Gil's work yard ... since his marriage to his charming wife, Lesa Porche, it is now that, Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23333274.post-88406576872704942762013-11-08T22:50:00.003-08:002013-11-09T17:37:53.315-08:00More Garden Adventures: Potted in Glendale
Last June I headed to LA - and got to stop by the garden accessory store, Potted ("indoor style for outdoor living"). Trendy, hip, modern ... the place is a treat! I don't usually choose modern, urban or mid-century styles ... probably because I've mostly lived in California ranch houses. Garden-wise I tend towards country, old-fashioned and places that remind me of sitting by a stream. But. I Jeannie Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244398606554309053noreply@blogger.com0