I was at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden today helping out with plant sale set up. As always there are an amazing number of weird and wild native plants (and […]
RSA Bot. Garden
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 […]
Gardening Season is About to Begin
Although I haven’t had time to change the “What to Do in the Garden” section of my Weedinig Wild Suburbia blog, it is definitely not time to: Sit in a […]
What I learned about oaks
As promised here’s a report on what I learned at Rancho last weekend about oaks – diseases and pruning. The class was taught by Susan Sims, master arborist (Sims Tree […]
Parkway Gardening
Gave a class at Rancho on Saturday on gardening in that wonderful no-man’s land, the parkway. I promised the participants that I would upload the presentation with the accompanying plant […]
Wildflowers near Gorman
On Wednesday I went with Colleen Wheeler, RSABG grounds staff, to collect wildflowers for the annual Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Wildflower Show. Equipped with collecting permits, ziplock bags, coolers, […]
Pipevine Swallowtail at Rancho
Visited the garden yesterday to have a look around and say hello to some friends. While walking in the Cultivar Garden I was especially excited to see many black swallowtail […]
Baja – Day 2
Rather than posting individual pictures, thought I’d just share a slideshow from our second day of field work in Baja California. We were near San Vicente on all four days. […]
Trip to Baja
I can’t believe it has been over two weeks since my last post. And a busy two weeks indeed. I was fortunate to be able to join a Rancho Santa […]
January at Rancho
On Saturday at Rancho I taught the class, From Lawn to Garden (see presentations). More and more people are interested in removing their lawns in favor of … well something […]