Spring Garden Update: The Native Gardens
There’s no question that this is my favorite time of year. The native gardens are at their absolute best between May and June, when so many of the plants are in peak bloom. This proved to be a very busy weekend for us, as we tried to catch up on a rather long...
April Garden Update: Native Garden
Walking through the garden, it’s clear that April is when Spring really arrives here. I can’t allow California Native Plant Week to slip by without a brief look at the native plants in our gardens this week. There are of course the usual suspects, like...
Winter Losses, and the Renewal of Spring
On this first day of spring I decided to walk through the property to see how our woodland native plants are faring so far this season. I’m taking stock of which plants are thriving at the moment, and where, as I will need to collect seed, or take cuttings from...
Goldback Fern (Pentagramma triangularis ssp. triangularis)
We are significantly behind in our rainfall totals for this year, but during the last week the rains have made a valiant effort to catch up before Spring arrives. This winter’s paucity of rainfall has impacted a number of our native plants, especially our...
Interior Live Oak, or Shreve Oak?
The woodland on the property is mixed evergreen forest, composed of a variety of native California tree species, including Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), California Bay Laurel (Umbellularia californica), Pacific Madrone (Arbutus menziesii), Douglas Fir...
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