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A Memorial Garden to help honor and rescue Golden Retrievers.

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Signs of Summer

June 3, 2016 by Ogee

Along with 100-degree temperatures are the season’s latest arrivals: Matilda Poppy, Hollyhock, Coneflower, Lantana, Coreopsis, Daylily, And very busy bees. 🙂

Categories: Gardening • Tags: Coneflower, Coreopsis, Daylily, Flower Photography, Garden Photography, Hollyhock, Lantana, Matilda Poppy, Summer Flowers

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Wordless Wednesday: We Work Hard For The Honey

June 16, 2015 by Ogee

Categories: Gardening, Nature • Tags: Bees, Coneflower, Lavatera, Macro Photography, Nature Photography

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Simply Said

August 23, 2012 by Ogee

“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.” – Henry Ward Beecher

Categories: Gardening • Tags: Coneflower, Flower, Nature, Photography

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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

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NBA Draft Day Close-ups

June 29, 2012 by Ogee

It is NBA Draft Day, an official holiday in my house. In other words, I might as well be invisible. So I took the opportunity to make an evening trip to the Homeward Bound Memorial Garden to get up close with some of our blooming friends – beginning with Deb’s first Dahlia’s of the season… Susan and Jeff’s Miniature Dahlias… Maria’s Sunflowers, Vonnie and Randy’s Roses, Sue’s Marigolds, and a host of others: Next up…wide shots of the garden as […]

Categories: Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Black Eyed Susan, Coneflower, Country Gardening, Dahlia, Day Lily, Golden Retriever, Golden Retriever Garden, Homeward Bound, Homeward Bound Garden, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Lupine, Marigolds, Memorial Garden, NBA Draft, Roses, sacramento, Sunflowers

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