I love my bulbs, but also grow many other favorites in my gardens. Roses, salvias, penstemons, pinks and native plants are probably the top five, and I collect many specimens of each of them. I, like many of you, find my favorite to be the one that I'm looking at right now!
I live in the back country near Descanso, California. My home is in
the mountains, and my weather conditions are quite different from most of
the San Diego area. I buy trees and shrubs safe for zone 7b, but we do
have milder winters some years, so I experiment with more tender plants as
well. As you all know, this year is full drought conditions. I use a
well, so can only hope that we will have another rainy year before the deep
water is affected.
I am editor of "The Bulb Garden" , and am also facilitator of our
local Sherilton Valley Fire Safe Council, and write a small monthly
newsletter for that. And I thought retirement wouldn't be busy! I share
my life with my husband, Ray, my three lovely daughters, a lazy dog and an
old-lady cat (as far as we can tell, she is 18 years old). I am playing
with a project to create a web-site for my Fire Safe information and as a
mini-flora for all the native plants in our valley. My daughter, Carole,
is taking photographs to place on the site.
Marguerite