When I was in high school biology text referred to the Mirabilis jalapa, and how it has beautiful flowers! Years later, living in Downtown San Jose, I encountered this marvelous plant with multi-colored flowers, many of which were on the same plant! Pinks, reds, yellows, oranges and double colors abound! I had to look [Continue]
Category: California Gardening
My First Morning Glory is already here!
Apart from the oddities facing humanity, this season has been odd for California as well. We seem to be at the precipice of another drought, even though we have had some late showers and will have some this weekend. We are only at 45% of our annual rainfall so far, and without significant increases [Continue]
Fading Winter’s bounty brings on tasty nostalgia…
We gardeners are a funny bunch. When Winter is at her peak, we groan about how we are kept away from our favorite activity – digging and getting dirty. And then, when Winter is fading away, even as we look on to Spring, we have a weird sense of nostalgia. That happened to me today [Continue]
Oxalis – the enemy of the California Gardener
If you have driven around California, especially Northern California, you have seen the “wild” mustard (Sinapis arvensis). That is a weed too. Formerly, it was the biggest villain on open fields and gardens. No, we have not cut back on the crop, besides places where the land was just built or paved over, but a [Continue]