Summer

Last day of June in the garden

What I'm REALLY doing in the garden...last day of June I just came in from an hour out in the…

10 years ago

Larry Rettig’s melancholy and ‘Summer Treasures’

Here in the Sierra foothills of California, sometimes the Autumn season brings a feeling of melancholy to gardeners, faced with…

12 years ago

Who needs mosquito repellant when you have your own bats?

"The more people know about bats the more they'll care about them." Sitting out tonight, while watering, I noticed a…

13 years ago

What to plant under Native Oaks and Pines?

or ...Why I remember a Sunset Magazine article from 1999. A few months before we bought our place here in…

13 years ago

Yosemite Nature Notes- Moonbows and Sky Islands

Yosemite Nature Notes is a video series produced by Steven M. Bumgardner, an employee of Sequoia National Park.  I've blogged…

14 years ago

A New Zealand inspired California rock garden

 In 2009, I visited my sister in New Zealand and on one weekend trip we drove down to the city…

14 years ago

Hot as an oven, …a California ghost town

Field Trip: Hornitos On a recent photo trek through the area between the Sierra foothills and the Central Valley of…

14 years ago

Time Tracking in the Garden

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be…

14 years ago

How to make your own delicious dried tomatoes

How to dry your tomato harvest to enjoy gourmet dried tomatoes all winter long If you have a good crop of…

14 years ago

Watering CA native plants in the Sierra foothills

Learning about watering for California natives ...and some Mediterranean plants in a home garden in the Sierra Foothills.   I…

14 years ago