pachistima - cliff green

Pachistima canbyi

Family: Celastraceae
Genus: Paxistima (paks-ISS-tim-uh) (Info)
Species: canbyi (KAN-bee-eye) (Info)
Synonym:Pachistima canbyi

Cute little sub-shrub that stays green all winter.  In Dec. of 2011 we have no snow but pachistima looks nice in the fallen leaves.

Chorizo cheese ball

I took one chorizo sausage out of the casing and cut it up and put it in a frying pan.  I tried to squeeze it into small pieces but it didn't work too well so I put it on the blender.  Then I added it to room temp cream cheese.  Instead of making it into a ball I just put it in a small dish and served it with multi-grain crackers at the Gardening Sat meeting.

Green's Girls Christmas Party 2011

Green's Girls Christmas Party 2011

Sky. at Sanders, used to work at Greens

blue bottle tree

Mini blue bottle tree got a new bottle.  Marlene pointed out this blue bottle to me at an antique/rummage sale  but I said it exceeded my limit, it was selling for one dollar.   I don't pay more than 50 cents for a blue bottle, unless its full.  So she bought it for me.  Nice Christmas present.  Really looks good on my bottle tree.  Thanks Marlene.