Breathing Treatment

There's been an excess of hot weather here that has now mercifully come to a close.  My garden has suffered, since I've been focused...

I spent a delightful week in the local mountains leading a generally well-behaved group of Scouts at Camp Tahquitz.  One of the Scouts noti...

Long ago I posted about Wind Poppies (Stylonecon genus) and how I would update my reader on how they had done in the garden. Finally, the an...

Check out the bloom on the Agapanthus along the driveway's edge. Saul, my gardener, convinced me that I could coppice the Agapanthus an...

I found a real garden planning triumph here. Maybe I too should plant a Mexican Sage too close to the sidewalk (on a slope, no less), forge...

I had a nice stair walk with my buddy Dan. This was one of the sights along the way - neighbors have planted similar impromptu gardens all ...

Proving that poor aesthetics have no boundaries, this apparent rodent barrier doubles as a solar cooker on sunny days. Seriously, what was t...

The Madia elegans (Tarweed) is blooming nicely. It's in the Asteraceae family and the seeds were used as food by native people. This wa...

It's started to flower now, and looks to be coming on strong with many more flowers. Red roses in the background sort of set the scale a...

It's so much easier to be a critic than to be a force for knowledge and goodness.  Plus it's fun to point out others' mistakes w...

I stopped by the lighthouse on the way home.  I hadn't been before, and there's a delightful native plant garden and "wild...

I had emailed my local CNPS Chapter Vice President, David Sundstrom, a couple weeks ago about some Broom plants growing above Western on th...

I had the great pleasure to lead a group of Scouts on a backpacking trip in the Malibu mountains last weekend.  We hiked a segment of the Ba...

25 April 2012: 0.46" of rain (0.35" at the San Pedro annex) 01 May 2012: 0.02" rain Rains are late this year compared to n...