Helen Popper’s recent book (March, 2012) California Native Gardening hit my mailbox a few weeks ago. It’s been reviewed [ here ] and [ there ], and it looked worth checking out. The quick take on this new guide: Yes,… Read More »book review: california native gardening
We begin this month’s episode of Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day with the rare lavender-flowered California coffeeberry. Well, actually, there is no such thing and I’m making it up, using one of the older trick in the gardener’s book. The flowers… Read More »may(bloom)day
So…there I was…watering my pitcher plants…when out jumped this little creature, a black widow spider. Note the bright red hourglass (or maybe psykter or Attic amphora) on the belly of the beast. I’d seen the unkempt-looking webs in the plants… Read More »black widow
On the recent outing to The Tunnels we took a little detour to view some vernal pools adjacent to Del Mar Mesa. The area is a patchwork of land administered by several agencies. But the basic message at most of… Read More »vernal pool side trip
When I decided I had some time this last weekend I volunteered at the last minute to be a docent at one of the gardens on the recent San Diego Go Wild garden tour. I was assigned to a garden… Read More »native garden tour highlights
Come make history this weekend: Here’s your chance to join the inaugural native plant garden tour for the San Diego chapter of the California Native Plant Society. Two days, 27 gardens, native plants, cool gardens, big gardens, small gardens, residential… Read More »san diego county native garden tour exclamation point
The morning opened overcast, foggy, even. You couldn’t ask for a more appropriate day to visit the mysteries of the area the locals call The Tunnels. The location is currently closed to public access until a plan for trails and… Read More »into the tunnels
There was a e-mail that went out this afternoon at work: the bees are swarming. And they’re swarming on a window, not some more appropriate opening in a log. Of course I had to check it out. Armed with my… Read More »bee swarm!
After posting on Nasher Sculpture Center’s Sculpture garden–very much a rarefied 1%er’s kind of garden–it’s really comforting to return to the garden I call home. It’s April 15 in this 99%er’s garden, and time for this months Garden Blogger’s Bloom… Read More »more than last month
I need to be careful about the things I write. I’d passed along a statement that someone had made calling the area around Dallas as “tornado country,” and look what happened. Yikes! But unless I’m Zeuss I’m thinking this wasn’t… Read More »nasher sculpture center