Tag: Pinus

  • Hanging on the Peninsula (Oh, the plants!)

    After my husband left, asking initially for a separation, and then weeks later for a divorce, I really have to admit now, that at that time, I wanted nothing more than to go away too but I really wasn’t able to do so since when you live with a chronic illness, saving money is far…

  • My First Citrus Lesson—and a bunch of other stuff from California

    Wintersweet aka Chimonanthus in bloom. Yesterday our friend—and host during a portion of our trip—took me to visit his friend’s tree nursery in the city of Napa: Main Street Trees. One of the first things we saw was this amazing Wintersweet shrub in bloom and immediately I knew I wanted to use some of it for…