If you're looking for a perfect holiday gift for the kids or grown-ups on your list, or perhaps one that they can share together, Sharon Lovejoy's wonderful book, Roots-Shoots-Buckets & Boots is a great choice.
Today, I really outdid myself in the carting part of the newest project at Casa de Buxton (also known among the residents as the back yard). I was/am tired of walking through slippery mud to get to the fly-away canes dangling from the pergola and over the fence into the neighbor's yard.
A year and a half ago when we replaced our front yard with drought tolerant landscape and drip irrigation, I desperately wanted to include Acacia cognata Cousin Itt'. I had seen it in a catalog and thought it would be perfect.
Pomegranates originated about 4000 years ago in Persia and spread from there into northern India. Their cultivation reached throughout the Mediterranean, into Africa and Asia. Ancient mythological stories and the Bible mention pomegranates.
