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Garden Dormancy

Published on September 26, 2021September 26, 2021 by weedingwildsuburbia

Dormancy in the southern California garden

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Spring is coming

Published on January 31, 2019September 14, 2020 by weedingwildsuburbia

Visit the South Pasadena Nature Park to enjoy the CA native wildflowers.

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After the flowers

Published on May 18, 2018 by weedingwildsuburbia

Wildflower season is “past peak” and I’d like to remind you that the glorious, youthful, bright flowers now enter the very important stage of making and dispersing seed. Though my […]

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Lawn-less Sustainable Garden (continued)

Published on February 26, 2018January 15, 2021 by weedingwildsuburbia

We are making big changes to our yard. As you may remember from earlier posts, I was not happy with the burned out lawn in the front yard. Years of […]

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Pacific Northwest Nature Garden

Published on September 7, 2017September 7, 2017 by weedingwildsuburbia

Spending time in the Pacific Northwest provides an important contrast to my Southern California Wild Suburbia. Wild Suburbia is sunny, hot, and dry. It is aromatic, gray and tan. The […]

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Pacific Northwest Cottage Garden

Published on August 11, 2017August 12, 2017 by weedingwildsuburbia

It has been foggy here on Orcas Island in the San Juans. I woke to thick mist, the sound of fog dripping from conifer trees, and the low, melancholy song […]

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What should I plant?

Published on September 15, 2016September 15, 2016 by weedingwildsuburbia

This is the perfect time to prepare your plant for upcoming native plant sales and fall planting! This slideshow presents garden-worthy plants from woodland, scrubland, chaparral and desert plant communities. […]

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Orcas Island Garden Tour

Published on June 27, 2016 by weedingwildsuburbia

Garden tour of five special gardens featured by Orcas Island Garden Club

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Brown is a color

Published on August 14, 2015August 14, 2015 by weedingwildsuburbia

Summer in my garden is mostly brown, with beige highlights. The fallen leaves are cool, crunchy, and comforting. Soft gray spider webs are sprinkled around in grass, on trees and […]

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Wildflower headshots

Published on June 18, 2015June 19, 2015 by weedingwildsuburbia

It is almost the summer solstice but there are still lots of flowers blooming in the nature park. There is a mighty fine display of California buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum). Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia) […]

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Author of Wild Suburbia - Learning to Garden with Native Plants, Barbara created and runs Friends of South Pasadena Nature Park. Each month with other volunteers, she weeds and cares for the park. She continues to garden with natives, give talks, and write. Grow native - let your garden go wild.

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