Dahlias | Gardens For Goldens

We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Program

October 29, 2017 by Ogee

For the first time in months, I have a weekend without a work project – and without a puppy. Little Journey has found her forever home. Now named Charli, she greeted her new Mom with a smother of kisses and flat out stole her heart. But she picked the right heart, because this Mom is an experienced dog person and a good leader with kind instincts. Charli has grown kids to play with, a new Dad who is making her […]

Categories: Dog Rescue, Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Nature Photography • Tags: Dahlias, Fall Asters, Fall Garden, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento

Return to the Garden

October 1, 2017 by Ogee

“Where will you begin?” she asked. “At the beginning, I guess.” This sign was posted over our shed door. The weeds are indeed laughing. Two hours after the last puppy of Irish’s litter was adopted, in rolled the van with six more! I can’t show them to you due to a promise we made to the kind human who brought them to us. She saw that they were in need and intervened. We won’t give her up as she may […]

Categories: Gardening, Nature Photography, Photography • Tags: Bulbine, Dahlias, Fall Garden, Garden Photography, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento, Weeds Laughing

Rescue is Only The Start

April 9, 2017 by Ogee

When we set out to save this Memorial Garden from returning to the earth, we had no idea where the journey would lead. It was a mission of rescue, re-creation, and re-envisioning. Today – it is this. But a garden is a living, breathing thing. It changes over time; plants grow and morph; and once-happy companions need to find new homes. Like our Dahlias – recently relocated – because their once-full-sun setting… has been cloaked in shade. Or this graceful […]

Categories: Dog Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Climbing Rose, Dahlias, dog rescue, garden redesign, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento, Labrador Retriever Rescue

The Dahlia Days of Summer

August 6, 2015 by Ogee

Elegant. Beauty. Fleeting. Summer.

Categories: Gardening, Nature • Tags: Dahlias, Flower Photography, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento, Nature, Summer Flowers

Second winds

July 22, 2014 by Ogee

After weeks of scorching hot and dusty dry – we caught a weather break and had unseasonably mild temperatures for a bit. The garden got its second wind, and sent blooms skyward again. Spectacular Sunflowers… Dazzling Dahlias… Daylilies… A second round of Delphinium… And the long-awaited appearance of those elusive Naked Ladies. Then – on Sunday – something truly amazing: clouds and a very light rain. You don’t realize how much you miss those drops until you live in California […]

Categories: Gardening • Tags: Dahlias, Flowers, Garden Photography, Nature, Summer Rain, Sunflowers

Summer Signs

July 6, 2014 by Ogee

The surest signs of summer: The arrival of sunflowers… the return of the Dahlias… Golden sunsets – sun setting Goldens… And water dogs – of course! Here’s to the lazy days of summer!

Categories: Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Dahlias, Garden Photography, Summer, Sunflowers, Water dog

Dahlias returned

April 28, 2013 by Ogee

Before I began this journey to rebuild the Homeward Bound Memorial Garden, I had no experience at all with Dahlias. They were the gift of a volunteer gardener and fell into my charge. I watched them blossom through the summer into magnificent plates of color and fell in love. I dutifully dug them up in the fall; placed them in a box of vermiculite following instructions I had read, sprinkled lightly with water and a little prayer, and then left […]

Categories: Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Clematis, Dahlias, Dog foster, dog rescue, Dogs, gardening, Highbush Blueberries, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden, Honeysuckle, Jerusalem Artichoke, Nature, Photography, Rose campion

Lifted

November 26, 2012 by Ogee

As we put hundreds of bulbs into the Homeward Bound Memorial Garden for next spring, it was time to raise the summer ones for winter. With more than a week of rain in the forecast, it was time to lift the Dahlias that delighted us for so many months. To protect them from frost and rot, they will be dried, stored in vermiculite or sand, and then divided next spring, so we can grace the garden again next summer and […]

Categories: Gardening • Tags: Bulbs, Dahlias, gardening, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden, Nature, Perennial Garden, Photography