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- Do Not Taunt the Native Plants
Sign in front of some scraggly bushes: Endangered butterfly Habitat. Please do not bebother, bend, break, bulldose, collect, cross, crumple…
- Treetop Tomatoes
Is this the weirdest place I’ve seen a volunteer tomato? It’s certainly up there! *sorry* *ok, not sorry* 🙂 Originally posted on Pixelfed. Observation on iNaturalist. Update: There’s also a black nightshade of some sort and a ficus growing out of the same tree, which you can sort of see in the medium-zoom photo. Update […]
- Feral Tomatoes Doing Well
This feral tomato plant was growing out of a crack in the pavement next to the driveway of a grocery store. I imagine someone must have dropped a tomato with viable seeds on the way out and it took hold.
- Not sure how this landscaping is supposed to work
A new hotel has put in a large, shallow pit filled sparsely with coarse grass and drain outlets in what once was the front lawn.
- Wi-Fi Sprouter (The Seeds Are All Right)
Some things to consider about the experiment with seeds and a wifi router. Plus, we tried a similar experiment ourselves and the seeds grew just fine.
- South Coast Plaza Garden Show
We went to the mall during their spring garden show, with vendors taking up nearly all the hall space of one wing to show off plants, tools, decorations, etc.
- Tumbleweed Cluster
Tumbleweeds tend to collect along roadsides and fences in Orange County, dropping their seeds for the next year. This can lead to some spectacular clusters of car-sized puffballs of plant. SR-55 off-ramp at Edinger In a few weeks*, these will dry out, turn brown, and get picked up by the Santa Ana winds. They’ll roll […]
- Chocolate Mint
After our trip to the nursery this weekend, Katie started seriously looking at our existing plants. We have a mint plant that got so pot-bound it grew down, through the drainage holes at the base of the pot, and back up the outside of the pot. She decided to make cuttings out of those bits… […]