Breathing Treatment

There's been a lot of news on my feed about continued drought in California, including the area that I live in (Coastal Los Angeles). H...

I hope you are well Just the basics, today as with so many previous days. I'm maintaining the South Coast CNPS web site these days t...

Earlier this year we took delivery of a pre-owned spa. I built a pad of crushed rock (roadbed) for it to sit on at one end of the garden. ...

Sunday brought 0.16" rain split between the AM and Sunday night / Monday morning. Date Amount(in.) Cumulative 11/20/2019 0.53 0.5...

I label garden projects and thoughts about garden projects as "garden design". Sometimes, it's enough to take a picture to v...

When we asked we were told this beautiful plant was a "wild Gladiolus". Perhaps they have naturalized in Sissinghurst, which is w...

1/17/2020 0.28" We're now at 9.26" for the season, which is not a cause for panic or for joy. As of today, the 10 day fore...

I waited for the easy time of year to make cuttings, soak, coat in Root Tone (use your preferred brand of rooting hormone) and place in smal...

Environmental timeline 1600-1870 The number of buffaloes was almost always uncertain: observers used language like immense numbers, countl...

I was combing through cobwebs of the internet and came across this blog post celebrating an Earthside Nature Center that had never heard of ...

In England we saw a number of ways of trellising roses that aren't commonly seen in S. California.  There's this drift of rambling r...

2019 was the year that Western Redbuds along my driveway really were impressive.  They were planted in early 2012.   In previous years I was...

Here's an idea I could implement at home. The photo is from Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens and doesn't look all that imposing.  Howe...

Juli and I found this ceanothus at Hidcote gardens in England when we visited last summer. What is likely Tritelia and a poppy were oth...