Tag: ca native plants
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Covington Sensory Garden Natives Blooming November 1, 2025
The Covington Elementary sensory garden features a lot of native plants. Here are the ones I noticed blooming Saturday while we were working on some upkeep. Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) Many of the plants in the main yarrow patch in the garden aren’t just done blooming; their tops are brown and crispy. This one in…
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California geophytes
On Reddit, bobtheturd said, “Calscape doesn’t do a good job filtering for geophytes, so wondering which are your favorites. I’m in the Bay Area, so more specifically interested in those.” (The post got some interesting replies.) Calscape describes itself like this: “Calscape is California’s hub for California native plants and native plant gardening, created for…
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AI eating AI?
I recently gave a yerba buena (Clinopodium douglasii) plant to a neighbor. I think this is the 5th yerba buena plant I’ve given away so far in the past year? This is one of my favorite California native plants. The neighbor asked me whether it’s safe for cats so I did some research online. Reiterating…
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Sprouts
Two sets of sprouts that have popped in recently in our home nursery, representing extremes of germination times: Telegraph weed (Heterotheca grandiflora), sowed October 28 this year; I noticed the first sprouts on November 1, just four days after sowing. The photo below is from November 5th. I saw them blooming on El Monte on…