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Evergreen Garden Wisdom - Blogs from the Annie's Archives

It’s starting to happen!

Spring Is Finally Unfolding in the Garden Looks like the gardens will peak just in time for our Mother’s Day Party on May 7 & 8! Get all the deets HERE! Everything is blooming about a month late because of...

Spring Is Finally Unfolding in the Garden Looks like the gardens will peak just in time for our Mother’s Day Party on May 7 & 8! Get all the deets HERE! Everything is blooming about a month late because of...

Gone! Poof! Another beauty DISAPPEARED!

Garden Heartbreak: The Day Our Favorite Snapdragon Disappeared So sad! One of these beauties is going bye-bye. You know that feeling you get when you go to your regular grocery store to pick up the essential things that you buy...

Garden Heartbreak: The Day Our Favorite Snapdragon Disappeared So sad! One of these beauties is going bye-bye. You know that feeling you get when you go to your regular grocery store to pick up the essential things that you buy...

Fantastical and Majestic Giant Dahlias!

Meet the Giant Dahlias: Majestic Blooms That Stop Passersby in Awe We Bay Area folks are blessed by the Dahlia Deities, for we not only get to grow these magnificent towers of flower, they grow here LIKE WEEDS (Have no fear,...

Meet the Giant Dahlias: Majestic Blooms That Stop Passersby in Awe We Bay Area folks are blessed by the Dahlia Deities, for we not only get to grow these magnificent towers of flower, they grow here LIKE WEEDS (Have no fear,...

September in Our Gardens

September in Our Gardens

September in Full Bloom: A Garden Lover’s Tour Well, here’s my first go at a blog! I will try not to write too much as I am pretty chatty when it comes to gardens, but hey, isn’t this pretty! As...

September in Our Gardens

September in Full Bloom: A Garden Lover’s Tour Well, here’s my first go at a blog! I will try not to write too much as I am pretty chatty when it comes to gardens, but hey, isn’t this pretty! As...

The Great Honking Smokin’ Hot Gargantuan Poker Plant of Annie’s Blooms Again!

The Giant Poker Plant Is Back and Blooming Like Never Before! in its tray. Not very promising for propagability, but a plant with this magnitude of awesomeness? Sometimes one MASSIVE POKER PLANT is enough! We were pretty thrilled with our...

The Giant Poker Plant Is Back and Blooming Like Never Before! in its tray. Not very promising for propagability, but a plant with this magnitude of awesomeness? Sometimes one MASSIVE POKER PLANT is enough! We were pretty thrilled with our...

Our First Garden Bloggers Bloom Day!

Celebrating Our First Garden Bloggers Bloom Day! Here in the Bay Area, October is when we finally get a taste of Summer. The long days of overcast mornings and cool but sunny afternoons finally heat up and our Indian Summer...

Celebrating Our First Garden Bloggers Bloom Day! Here in the Bay Area, October is when we finally get a taste of Summer. The long days of overcast mornings and cool but sunny afternoons finally heat up and our Indian Summer...