FYI – New Category

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I recently added a new category, “Gayla’s Gardens” to the site archive. I’m sorry about the title, I know it’s lame. Just reading that back makes me think it should be displayed in Mistral and accompanied by a photo of me sporting matching floral-patterned knee pads, apron, gloves and a GIANT smile. I’d be wearing a floral-patterned dress too.

I decided to do this because I was having trouble locating old posts about the gardens and figured readers might also prefer the option of searching by posts that are more specifically about my personal gardening spaces, of which there are three. All three are bundled into one category rather than separating into three more categories. I have to admit that I am not quite done archiving since there are literally thousands of pages to search through on this site.

And while I’m at it I will also admit that there are lots and lots of old articles that have never been archived, period. Because I suck.

P.S. I started a Twitter account a while back that can be followed if you are into that sort of thing. It updates my feed and I occasionally write to say “Just planted the peas” and exciting things like that.

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Muscari Armeniacum ‘Fantasy Creation’

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First of all, dig on that name. The garden industry needs some serious help coming up with better names for cultivars. On second thought, as you were garden industry. If the industry suddenly morphed into “sophisticated” and focus grouped I would miss out on all the enjoyment I get in making fun of it. I’m going to be speaking on a panel at a greenhouse growers trade event in July which means I will be meeting some of the people who come up with these names. I can’t wait!! I especially hope I get a chance to meet the genius behind ‘Pacific Sexy.’

But I digress. I picked these flowers out of the Guerrilla Garden yesterday morning to brighten up my desk. I try to refrain from picking too many flowers from that garden, intending to share in their beauty with the neighborhood. But these blooms were hidden behind rapidly growing foliage so I figured, Why not?

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