Gardens For Goldens

I arrived late to the garden on Saturday – after lending a hand with the dogs’ last evening run. Peggy had been out earlier in the day. She is a weeder-extraordinaire and her work was evident everywhere. She happened upon a Killdeer egg. These silly birds have a nasty habit of leaving their eggs in the walk-on bark. The mama bird seeks camouflage – without consideration for the fact that this is a walking path. Peggy surrounded it with rocks […]

Categories: Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Amaranthus, Bee Balm, Campanula, Evening Garden, Gaillardia, Garden Photography, Killdeer

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Perennial Progression

August 4, 2012 by Ogee

Here is another in the series of garden bed transformations at the Homeward Bound Memorial Garden. When we read about the need for volunteer gardeners in the Homeward Bound Newsletter last Fall, a group of us showed up to see and select “beds” that we would assume responsibility for. It was a little hard to find the beds! This is how the Perennial Garden began. The (very loose) vision. We wanted a palette of intense color, breaking every garden design […]

Categories: Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Bee Balm, Coneflower, Dahlia, gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Perennial Garden

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Mid-Summer Update

July 23, 2012 by Ogee

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” ~ Sam Keen In the hot Sacramento months of July and August, the garden is best tended to in the early morning and early evening. I snuck out to the Homeward Bound Memorial Garden late yesterday afternoon and early evening to get some of our weekly heavy lifting done, knowing that Sunday would also be over 100 – and that Maria, my Sunday gardening partner, refuses to quit as long as there is […]

Categories: Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Bee Balm, Coneflower, Garden, golden retriever rescue, Homeward Bound Garden, Roses, sacramento, Sunflowers