gardening
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Strawberry beds & sun
March 31st was major: the first day this year without rain in the ten-day forecast. It felt … joyous. Overwhelming. Glorious. California’s been in a hard drought, and we need…
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This month, the garden
Last week, a headline ran in the local newspaper: storm coming! More rain than we’ve had all year! It netted out to about half an inch. It was probably the…
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January 2022 – Garden update
A friend of mine who moved to California from the east coast and Texas said this was the first year she’d understood her Californian friends’ obsession with winter. The world…
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September garden update
It has indeed been a while. The days here are still hot, but the angle of the light has shifted to fall. I haven’t been writing much on this blog,…
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Gardening in June
It’s June – mid-June, at that. The weather has been strange so far this year. March was unseasonably hot, but since then it’s been cooler than usual. As I’m writing…
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Unwelcome severance
That. That is the severed stem – one of several! – of a truly lovely magnolia blossom snap pea that was just beginning to transition from the occasional blossom to…
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