It’s only recently that I’ve gotten back to posting, and there’s close to a year’s worth of stuff that might have been blog-worthy. Here’s a short, redacted list of 2014 highlights: All Year February Atlanta Botanical Garden. Oops. Sorry. No… Read More »2014: a year in pictures
I looked west this morning while I was having breakfast and saw the first rainbow I’ve seen in months, maybe years. Although it was cool outside I had to go up to the deck to check it out. The rainbow… Read More »no rain, no rainbows
Water restrictions went into effect here in San Diego on June 1. So far there’s a short list of thou-shalt-nots, and the water district has primarily targeted landscape irrigation, the low-hanging fruit, with directives like: no watering between 10 a.m.… Read More »how the neighbors are coping
Remember wishing wells? In the early 1970s, when I first started paying close attention to gardens, every few yards would have a wishing well as an accent of the landscaping: Big lawns, lots of flowers, the wishing well, maybe even… Read More »wishing for water
This post may be mainly for the math nerds among you, but I think it could be interesting to any gardeners living in drought-prone parts of the world. In my last post I mentioned that I’d used instructions in Olivier… Read More »how dry am i?
Our Governor has declared a drought emergency for California. The state rainfall and snowpack has been lower than average for most of the recent years, and reservoir reserves are dwindling. My county has been slightly over average in its rainfall… Read More »“drought emergency”