If you’re near San Diego, be sure to stop by Balboa Park for the big annual native plant sale of the local chapter of the California Native Plant Society. Hours are 11-3 for the regular folks, but you can shop… Read More »cnps plant sale tomorrow, october 15!
We’re just back from the beach, where we tried to catch some of the glowing red tide that people were so excited about last night. Unfortunately we’d missed it at it peak, but I got a few general shots of… Read More »bioluminescent waves
Gosh, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? The main distractions keeping me away from posting have been a couple of classes I’ve been taking to fill in some art history holes I hadn’t bothered with before. For one of them… Read More »more mediterranean than thou
Here’s the artist’s rendering for a new project that’s going up on the way to my weekday office. In this view things look pretty normal: a clapboard house, lawn, shrubberies, foundation plantings, patio furniture, shade umbrella–nostalgic Americana, tidy, idyllic. But… Read More »garden on the edge
College Prowler, the website that provides crowdsource ratings of colleges and universities by important factors like campus dining, academics, and the guys who go there, recently also ranks the schools for “weather.” (Really, we’d call that “climate,” wouldn’t we?) Of… Read More »staycation 2011
My part of town got yarn-bombed earlier this year. Guerrilla knitter Kevin Gauge (not his real name) has modified five stop signs around the Clairemont neighborhood of San Diego, adding knitted stems and a pair of leaves to the support… Read More »it’s da (yarn) bomb
No garden project seems to ever be complete, but we did put the finish on the bog bench we’ve spent a lot of time working on. We used this stuff, Superdeck. It took already good-looking wood and turned it into… Read More »what’s eating you
There’s this dead tree outside my weekday office. A crew has been working on it for the last two weeks. It’s one of three very dead trees that make up an 1986 installation by Terry Allen. Set in an area… Read More »keeping your dead tree healthy
The garden is turning decidedly brown as the temperatures warm and the dry summer gets underway–Sounds like a perfect time to revisit high spring in the local foothills. Or maybe that’s just a ruse to get an excuse to show… Read More »petals and parasites
Update #1: The gopher chronicles (Original post: Cooking for Vermin) It’s been three weeks since I tried to ward off gophers by using extra-hot chili powder. People want to know if it works. The conclusion: There’s no sign of obvious… Read More »random updates