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
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…