GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Enjoy The Process
By Francesca Filanc, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2023. Enjoy the Process Last month the painting posted in this article was brand-new...
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November 2023
Garden Surroundings
- Aug 31
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Cherry Plum Tree And Fig Tree
Words and pictures by Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! September 2023. Cherry Plum and Fig Trees I hope everyone had a fabulous...
- Jul 31
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Saving Frogs Lives And Making Apple Pie From Home-Grown Apples
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! August 2023. Here is an addendum to July’s Garden Surroundings article about frogs. The other...
- Jun 30
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Fun Surprises in the Garden
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! July 2023. Fun Surprises in the Garden Here and there, I loved hearing frogs in the garden as...
- May 31
GARDEN SURROUNDNGS: Living Walls
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2023. Editor’s note: How timely is this article for those of us lucky attendees of the...
- Apr 30
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: April Showers Bring May Flowers
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! May 2023. April Showers Bring May Flowers Living in the time of climate change our climate...
- Apr 3
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Wisteria Brings Joy Every Spring
By Francesca Filanc for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2023. Wisteria brings pure joy every spring. I write about wisteria every April because...
- Mar 1
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Creating Your Own Flower Arrangements
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! March 2023. Creating your own Flower Arrangements A friend passed away recently, and I wanted...
- Feb 1
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Spain - Basque And American Traditions
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! February 2023. Spain - Basque and American Traditions The holidays this past year 2022, as...
- Jan 1
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Meyer Lemons For Your Home Garden
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! January 2023. Meyer Lemons For Your Home Garden January is the month when many of us make New...
- Dec 1, 2022
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Dazzling Amaryllis
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! December 2022. Dazzling Amaryllis Editor's note: Francesca wrote about amaryllis earlier this...
- Oct 31, 2022
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Are spider mites taking over the world?
By Francesca Filanc, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2022. Are Spider Mites Taking Over The World? The other night as I was putting my...
- Sep 30, 2022
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Fall Into Fall
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2022. We fall into fall and look forward to cooler weather with leaves changing...
- Aug 31, 2022
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Easy to Create Butterfly Sanctuary
By Francesca Filanc, for Let's Talk Plants! September 2022. A Butterfly Sanctuary is Easy to Create in Your Garden Think of the joy you...
- Jul 31, 2022
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Magnolias
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! August 2022. “A tree or shrub with large, typically creamy-pink, waxy flowers. Magnolias are...
- Jun 30, 2022
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Amaryllis
By Francesca Filanc, for Let's Talk Plants! July 2022. Amaryllis "Amaryllis is a bulbous plant with white, pink, or red flowers and...
- May 31, 2022
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Using Garden Structures Makes Exciting Gardens
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2022. Using Garden Structures Makes Exciting Gardens Adding arbors, pergolas, and...
- Apr 30, 2022
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Lady Banks Roses
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! May 2022. Lady Banks Rose has been grown for 2,000 years in gardens in China. It has no...
- Apr 1, 2022
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: The Joy Of Growing Wisteria
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2022. ‘April Showers Bring May Flowers’ The expression originates from a line in an...
- Mar 1, 2022
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: March Is A Work Horse Month In Our Gardens
By Francesca Filanc, for Let's Talk Plants! March 2022. Traditionally March is a work horse month in our gardens. My mum, Pat Welsh,...
- Feb 1, 2022
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: ‘A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose’
By Francesca Filanc, for Let's Talk Plants! February 2022. ‘Rose is a rose is a rose’ was written by Gertrude Stein as part of the 1913...
- Jan 1, 2022
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: The Joy Of Gardening With Succulents
By Francesca Filanc, for Let's Talk Plants! January 2022. Succulents have long been good plants for San Diego County. Although many...
- Dec 1, 2021
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Joy in the Garden
By Francesca Filanc, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2021. Cassia splendida. As this year draws to a close I am reminded once again of...
- Oct 31, 2021
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Worm Castings For A Vibrant Healthy Landscape
By Francesca Filanc for Let's Talk Plants! November 2021. Several years ago, a landscape designer friend of mine in the Olivenhain Garden...
- Sep 30, 2021
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Butterflies & Host Plants In The Garden
By Francesca Filanc for Let's Talk Plants! October 2021. I receive so much joy by planting flowers, plants and vines that attract...
- Aug 31, 2021
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Tussie-Mussies
By Francesca Filanc for Let's Talk Plants! September 2021. The first time I was taught how to make tussie-mussies, also spelled tussy...
- Jul 31, 2021
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Gardenias; My "First Love"
By Francesca Filanc. First Love® Gardenia, Gardenia jasminoides 'Aimee'. A strong memory from my childhood is of being beautifully...
- Jul 1, 2021
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Mom and Apple Pie!
By Francesca Filanc. “Saturday in the Park, I think it was the Fourth of July ..." - song written by Robert Lamm and recorded by the...
- May 31, 2021
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Happy June!
By Francesca Filanc. We, who love gardening and gardens never cease to appreciate and enjoy the beauty inspiration, knowledge, love and...
- Apr 30, 2021
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: April Showers Bring May Flowers
By Francesca Filanc. In the time of climate change, at present, we are back in a drought and having a La Niña year. The last couple of...
- Apr 1, 2021
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Wisteria In All My Gardens
All my life I have had a “love affair” with wisteria, passed down from Mum, Pat Welsh, who has written numerous books and articles and also
- Mar 1, 2021
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Find Me In The Garden
We are having a La Niña this year according to the weather bureau. La Niña usually means less rain in Southern California. But we have had s
- Feb 1, 2021
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: In The Garden
When I first moved to this property five plus years ago, I knew I wanted to make large changes in the garden. I started right away building
- Dec 1, 2020
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: How Our Collective Gardening Passion Helps Us
Today is November 29, 2020. This has been a difficult year for all of us in one way or another, and yet, we are all so lucky to have the pas
- Sep 30, 2020
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Sunflowers, the Funflowers!
Sunflowers are so much FUN to Grow! If you have a place where you can put them every year they give so much joy. I smile every time I walk o
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