Breathing Treatment

I've always had an affinity for Wyethia species, perhaps because they seem so unobtainable in the trade. Wyethia or Mule's Ears com...

How do others store and organize their seeds? I keep mine in stored in this wooden tool carrier: Everything from fava beans to Datura is st...

I had popular songs from the 80s running through my head the other day, one of which I thought apropos of my wall building activities. You...

We've had a long heat wave, but all signs are that it will break soon, and just in time for fall, my favorite season.  Fall officially s...

My mimulus (mimuli?) is doing what it should be doing - looking brown, but with a core of green. Barbara wrote something similar about a mim...

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...