Picture Sundays: Early Morning in the Garden

June 8, 2014

...Mrs. Homegrown did an amazing job re-landscaping the backyard. She mail ordered a lot of plants from Annie’s Annuals and Perennials. In the background is the Clary sage I planted from seed that spreads like a weed. Hey Mrs. Homegrown, how about an in depth post on some of these plants?...

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Picture Sundays: Busy Person’s Correpondence Card

Mr. Homegrown

January 26, 2014

Picture Sundays

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...Found this cleaning out my desk. No idea of the date, but it shows a pre-draught California....

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Picture Sundays: Outhouse Propaganda

Mr. Homegrown

December 15, 2013

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...Agreed. From the WPA Federal Art Project, (between 1936 and 1941) via the Library of Congress. There’s a high res version in case you need a last minute Christmas gift....

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Picture Sundays: Tube Seat

Mr. Homegrown

January 5, 2014

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...Judging from this photo I found on my computer it appears that someone named Gordon C. Smith designed a “Multiposition Tube Seat” sometime in the 1970s. Go ahead young, ambitious entrepreneur–bring this back as a multiposition texting/gaming/thoughtstyling chair....

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Picture Sundays: Name This Flower

Mr. Homegrown

April 21, 2013

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...I planted our parkway with a California native wildflower mix from Theodore Payne last year. This flower was the most successful and reseeded itself. But I lost the seed package and don’t know its name. Identify it and you win bragging rights . . . Update: Dree wins bragging rights! It’s Elegant clarkia (Clarkia unguiculata)....

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