Hi effur-ryone…. Well June is bustin’ out all over in Leoland.  Here’s some blooms currently making their appearance: …IT’S A MIRACLE… …nip has risen from the ashes !!! HOWEVER….Mr. Gnome is missing… …(literally – Staff has been moving things in my back garden to make way for some new landscaping…and now Mr. Gnome is GONE…VANISHED) […]

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Leo here with my SoFe report…good news is my cymbidium orchids are starting to bloom, and Bjossi-the-Lime tree is having a bumper crop… …bad news, the Nip..or what’s left of it… With Mr. Gnome in Puerto Vallarta, his famous ‘travelling’ brother who represents an […]

Hi Furry Friends, One word:  furrrrreezing…for the past week the Bay Area has had a gai-nourmous cold air mass stuck here and we have had – eeek – a whole week of frost warnings…staff had to cover all the orchids and orchid cactus… …not to worry, the Nip farm (and Mr. Gnome) were well protected – ‘A by Adrienne Luxe […]

Fur-riends, Romans, Countrymen…lend me your ears… Leo reporting in with a SoFe update – the rainy season started off yesterday with a deluge (for here at least) – raining ‘cats ‘n dawgs’ !! Nip survived, and Mr. Gnome has broken out his ‘one size fits all’ water shoe and his gnome shower cap… My Thanksgiving […]

Hi Furry Friends, Leo here – apologies for the lapse in posts.  I’ve been busy away in DC attending a special House Sub-Committee hearing on the ‘No Feline-Canine Left Behind’ proposition.  On the left of the Speaker is Congressdawg Mabel Woofsley from Chowchilla, CA. ..and on the Nip front, looking good…although Mr. Gnome’s dry-grass undercover […]

Hi effurry-buddy, Leo here with an update on the Nip farm.  In order to provide ultimate security to the Nip, I was able to secure federal funding to construct a Nip Command Center on the roof of my castle [Next to my Jr. Weatherstation] to provide 24/7 on-demand protection. Mr. Gnome has even gone undercover. […]

Hi Everyone, Leo here with an update on the Nip Farm.  Good news is the nip is growing up nicely – bad news is Mr. Scarecrow had some of his stuffing removed.  So I’ve had a CCTV added to keep an eye on Mr. Scarecrow so he can guard the No Trespassing Sign from being […]

Hear ye, hear ye…the Nip is growing!!  But it looks like something is eating the trespassing sign, so I had Mr Gnome enlist Mr. Scarecrow to watch the sign, while Mr. Gnome watches the ‘Nip…. Meanwhile, back in the castle….  

Hi Everyone, Leo here…lot’s of great SoFe updates today…. Yes, the Nip crop is doing nicely, and I’ve tasked Mr. Gnome to safeguard the crop with his taser mushroom…. According to the forecast model I’ve prepared from my Jr. Weatherstation on the castle roof, the Nip Growing forecast looks quite favorable… A few other SoFe highlights – […]

Avast ye Matey’s…Black Whiskers is terrorizn’ da bounty main…argggg..Happy Meow Like a Pirate Day!!   Society of Feline Gardeners Report Catnip – sown in the lower 40 Sept 14th…waiting for sprouts… Blurry photo (NDD needs magnifying glasses) of a mini African Violet I grew from seed in March that just started to bloom. …and a […]