wicked green

Here’s a picture I took at the Cuyamaca Water Conservation Garden. It’s a demonstration garden for low water use plants at Cuyamaca Community College in Rancho San Diego. Definitely worth checking out if you’re in that area. The Euphorbia ‘Sticks on Fire’ and Twin Flowered Agave (detailed info in previous posts) work really well together [...]

I was at Starbucks the other day and noticed that thay had two large bags of free coffee grounds. I almost took one even though we don’t have a use for them just yet. This is a nice, green gesture on their part. Starbucks has some details on how they can be used and the [...]

We got our first box from Suzie’s Farm! I wrote about joining their CSA in a previous post. Saturday was a big day. It started at the farmer’s market picking up our box along with other goodies and went to Ray at Night later, which is in the last post. We decided to get a [...]

Aeonium arboreum ‘Atropurpureum’ aka Purple Aeonium The green center of these mostly purple plants create interest and contrast when it’s not in bloom and the bright yellow flowers add even more when in bloom. Best Feature:  shiny purple leaves with green center, bright yellow flowers, evergreen, low maintenance, relatively low water From :  Canary Islands [...]

It’s the guide to green businesses. The companies listed go through a screening process to determine “its commitment to social and environmental responsibility, and significant action in terms of this commitment” (from page 7 of 201o National green pages). Businesses are listed by location, by name and also by type of business. Pretty handy. And [...]

I have been reading Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler. My husband and I are planning a family. My cousin, a mom herself, sent me this book along with a voodoo doll. We’re hoping one of them works! Back to the book, it basically gives detailed methods of tracking your own fertility to [...]

Hesperaloe parviflora aka Red Yucca The gray/green foliage and the tall red/coral (though there are some with yellow) flowers are a really nice contrast. Best Feature:  tall, arching thin stalks of flowers in late summer to early fall, low maintenance, low water From :  Texas and Mexico Preferable Places : Sunset Zones 2b, 3, 7-16, [...]

My husband surprised me with an itouch for Christmas. And I was surprised. We set a small limit for gifts, since I currently have no job, but he put some money aside to get me a great gift. So sweet. And it is very cool. Music is something I love and I previously had a [...]

You might call me a dusting expert. Our parrot can cover a 5 foot radius with white dander and feathers in under an hour, it’s pretty amazing since he’s not very big. I became a sort of step-mom to him when I married my husband (which he was not happy about, the bird I mean). [...]

It poured here today which is not common. It made me wish I had a rain barrel but we unfortunately do not even have gutters. That’s pretty common here due to the lack of rain. If we did, all of the water from the gutter downspouts could be collected in large containers and reused. You [...]