This weekend was the Wildflower Festival at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. If you weren’t able to see the Wildflower Show, it will be open for a third day, on […]
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Trees at TIFR
The trees on the campus of the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR) are truly amazing. I have not done nearly enough looking and photographing so this will be my project […]
Summer Color (that’s not brown)
There has been a very interesting discussion, Native Plant Stars of the Summer Doldrums, on the California Native Plants google group. As people were sending messages about what is blooming in their […]
Dividing Irises – Part 2
A little more than a month ago (October 14) I dug up a few Pacific Coast irises from the woodland garden to transplant to a new location – one that […]
Springtime!
I know that we have not suffered through a long cold, snowy winter, and so I don’t deserve to feel so springtime happy. Who can help it? We did have […]
Lazy Woman’s Garden
I was all set to write about how I finally used up the last of the Meyer lemons but instead I spent some time taking pictures in the yard. (Yes […]
It Feels Like Spring…
While members of my family living “back east” are reporting dire conditions – snow, sleet, hail, thunder, and more snow – we have experienced a sudden burst of spring. (Darl, […]
October GBBD
Middle of the month of October and not much in bloom. Among the natives in my garden, only buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum), coast goldenbush (Isocoma menziesii), California fuchsia (Epilobium), and California […]
Last Wedding Post – and I mean it!
It has been nearly a month since the big day and it seems like I should put up one final post on how things finished up. As mentioned earlier many […]
The Wedding
Although most of the country is reaching its peak flowering season, those of us who garden with native plants here in the LA Basin, are long past peak. And so […]