Sequoia Gardens

I’m at it again! Take a look at my new approach to garden blogging at Why Gardens Work.

https://sequoiagardens.wordpress.com/2020/05/31/my-new-gardening-blog/

For anyone wishing to continue following my blogging – here is my new site address: dreamonsa.wordpress.com 😕☺

https://sequoiagardens.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/the-new-beginning/

Four months have passed since my last post; although it was not intended as a final chapter, it made an appropriate one. This is my 401st post, written after six years and some days of blogging. ...

https://sequoiagardens.wordpress.com/2015/08/09/coda/

How appropriate, these three together! In 35 years I have never seen the most iris-like of all South African irises, Moraea spathulata on Sequoia. I have seen it 300m away on my neighbours’ pro...

https://sequoiagardens.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/a-climax-an-elegy-and-a-new-beginning/

My oldest friend, almost my twin, and her family spent a weekend recently with us on Sequoia Gardens. They had come to spread her mom’s ashes where they had spread her dad’s two years earlier...

https://sequoiagardens.wordpress.com/2015/03/04/a-tribute-to-sequoia-gardens/

As the next stage of my life inches closer – or, as it sometimes feels, speeds down upon me – I realise that it is well over a month since my last post. Here is a fleeting report on the state...

https://sequoiagardens.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/late-summer-lushness/

I have posted often on the Sequoia Rose, and even here in the early days of it and the Watsonia together. But the view out the guest room window on a humid afternoon with a storm threatening was ...

https://sequoiagardens.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/watsonias-and-sequoia-rose/

There was the promise of rain in thar cloud,  but depending on one’s point of view, none was forthcoming. I could hear it, I could smell it. I could even see it fall and see it on the water 80...

https://sequoiagardens.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/thus-endeth-the-holiday-season/

May 2015 be a beautiful year for all of us!

https://sequoiagardens.wordpress.com/2014/12/31/wishes/

To my amusement a google image search of the above title – in Afrikaans as “Studie in Blou” – led me first to my own blog post from 2012. But so ingrained in me is the image of Pierneef�...

https://sequoiagardens.wordpress.com/2014/12/19/study-in-blue/