Here’s a little cartoon I whipped up this morning on Xtranormal, the site that lets you create and distribute your own animations without needing to really know what you’re doing. (When it comes to CGI, that pretty much describes me…)… Read More »california native plant week, the cartoon
I love a good book that surprises you. When I was talking to a botanist a couple months ago and she recommended Oscar F. Clarke’s Flora of the Santa Ana River and Environs : with references to world botany, I… Read More »good book, cool trivia
The color combination of blue and orange reminds me of noisy kiddie toys, of hard molded plastic waiting room chairs, of harshly lit 1970s fast-food restaurants trying unsuccessfully to look modern and friendly, or of jerseys for some high school… Read More »blue and orange (gbbd)
Today’s Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day post features five plants I’ve raised from seed. I’d consider most of these in the “pretty easy” to “really easy” categories, both to germinate and to grow. Three of these came up from seed that… Read More »some bloom day blooms from seed
People often try to do the right thing, but along the way things somethings can go astray. Saturday I was hiking one of our local urban canyons, San Clemente Canyon, with some other plant people. Like the rest of our… Read More »trying to do the right thing
A plant’s name can often help give you a sense of place as to where the plant originated. I’ve been noticing recently that a lot of plants in the garden have species names that are either “californica” or “californicus.” I… Read More »live, from california…