by angela@diggingbliss | Aug 26, 2013 | DIG Gardens, nursery, Santa Cruz
I finally made it to DIG Gardens in Santa Cruz! Back in June, I made my maiden voyage to San Francisco’s Flora Grubb, another amazing, amazing nursery. DIG was next on my list of nurseries I wanted to visit in person after getting to know them online.
Because it’s a two- to three-hour drive from Sacramento (when you get lost like I do), I combined this trip with a self-guided UC Santa Cruz tour for my son, who’s looking to transfer there as a junior. He got to see UCSC again… I got to see Dig Gardens… and we had a very nice lunch at Cafe Limelight. Gorgeous weather greeted us and it was a wonderful day in all.
Elliot and I got a little “GPS lost” on our way to lunch, which I don’t mind because it’s usually a chance to explore the unexplored. Our getting lost reward was Santa Cruz City Hall, with its mini Santa Barbara style courtyard.
Santa Cruz City Hall
Elliot standing next to a semi-uprooted palm tree
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by angela@diggingbliss | Aug 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
Had a great day with the kiddo in beautiful Santa Cruz yesterday. Made my first visit to Dig Gardens! Prepping the photo album, but here’s a tiny taste!
by angela@diggingbliss | Aug 16, 2013 | air plants, fertilizing, ponds
I love how blogs propagate neat ideas somewhat randomly and virally throughout the land. Via The Horticult, I recently learned that by soaking your air plants in pond water, they are actually being fed by “pond scum” at the same time! Check out their post titled “Soak City: An Unlikely Fertilizer for Tillandsia”.
I love this idea because it’s a clever, efficient and thrifty use of a waste product. As is the way of the web, the folks at The Horticult learned this tip from Florida air plant purveyor Air Plant City’s “Caring For Your Tillandsia” page.
I was able to put this feeding method into practice at the nursery yesterday, but will have to wait until I have a pond at home to determine how well this works as a long-term feeding regimen. Until then, I can use Grow More 17-8-22 Bromeliad & Tillandsia Fertilizer
on my tillies at home. Grow More’s is the only commercial tilly fertilizer I’ve come across that’s relatively inexpensive and readily available.
by angela@diggingbliss | Aug 9, 2013 | container gardening, moss, planters
Being a tomboy who came to lipstick later in life, I don’t have the ability to get super excited about handbags and high heels. I have one purse, a little Tignanello backpack purse, that holds all my stuff and allows me to move about my life with both hands free. The allure of a really expensive handbag slung over one shoulder escapes me entirely. My affliction is rare, judging from the abundance of websites, blogs and gossip rags devoted to the daily chronicling of female celebrities and their $10,000 designer handbags. To me, purses and shoes are just… meh. Unless they’re made of moss.
Finally, something ladylike I can get excited about! Hmm… what to plant? A little string of pearls succulent to go with that plantable high heel of yours? Super Moss
makes these adorable moss purse planters, which make fun gifts, planted or unplanted.
Moss purse with String of Pearls (Senecio rowleyanus), Echeveria and Calibrachoa
by angela@diggingbliss | Aug 5, 2013 | container gardening, talini's nursery, vertical gardening
We got new wall pots, aptly named WallPots, in at Talini’s. Each WallPot contains three deep pockets and has plenty of grommets for attaching to vertical surfaces. This one, I planted with mostly shade-loving plants. Update: the lobelia bit the dust, but the begonia and potato vine are thriving.
WallPots
