Browse a list of all the posts about my Sierra Foothill Garden.
Table of Contents:
Puttering in the garden
Garden Projects
Sierra Foothills
Garden Craft
Nature
Designing the garden
CA Native Plants
Mediterranean and Other plants
Wildlife
Edibles
The Meadow project, month by month
Realities
Gardening biography and history
New Zealand Inspiration
Homebuilding
Diary
Photo stories
Odd bits
A Garden Philosophy
Highlights of 2011 in the Sierra Foothill Garden
Puttering in the garden
My favorite gardening equipment
More winter gardening ideas for the Sierra foothills
Secrets for a weed free garden – mulch, compost and cultivation
What’s blooming in June
Gardening in the Rain
New discoveries, new joys
What am I ‘really’ doing in the garden today?
Rambling around in July
Friends,…I meant to do my work today
A Winter walk with Maggie
Why does my coffee get cold?
Checking on May projects
Winter check on the Sierra Foothill garden
In which, I clean up my potting bench
Sitting…looking up at oaks
Two garden accidents and a happy ending
Planting wildflower ‘muffins’
Let’s check on Fall and Winter projects!
Mysteries in the mulch
Past memories and changing your mind
Woodpiles and other realities in the garden
What am I really doing in the garden in October?
Invasive plants and impatience in the garden
New discoveries, new joys new native plant
Garden Projects
Gardening with children- 7 garden projects for you and a child
I brake for succulents
My easy seed saving system
New Year’s Day 2011-My first wintersowing
Wintersowing, a great January seed starting project
Building benches and paths of desire
Wangling wood chips from work crews
In which, I clean up my potting bench
Nurse Logs in your garden
Diane’s greenhouse dream
How Sharley divides an African Violet
Junk garden project-Dutch door
Keeping garden records.
Decorating with Winter Berries
First Views (Photo record of the garden, month by month)
April First views in the Sierra foothills
March First Views- Snow Dust in the Sierras
A mild Sierra foothill winter-February First Views
Indian summer-January First Views
Two paths and a patio, November First Views
October First Views-California’s Fifth Season
September First views
Sierra Foothills
Fire cautions in the Sierra Foothills
Morning snowy foggy tree
Our valley, one view, two photos
Riding the High Country Central Camp Road
New Yosemite Nature Notes-Black Oaks
Yosemite Nature Notes- Moonbows and Sky Islands
Hot as an oven, …a California ghost town
Lewis Creek: The Wildflowers
Lewis Creek: Converging Ladybugs converge
How Peckinpah Mountain got its name
Enjoying Yosemite, a family tradition Yosemite Nature Notes video series
Shinzen Friendship Garden, a rainy spring story in Fresno Woodward Park
Local, local, local
Garden Craft
How to make an easy garden stepping stone
Preserving Fall leaves in the Sierra Foothill Garden
Leaf casting the Indian Rhubarb
Hypertufa workshop…fun!
How to make Hypertufa Troughs
Garden orb of modest materials– bowling ball
Using ‘found’ broken pots in the garden
Nature
Sierra wind, a whispering train coming
Orange in the Sierra Foothill Garden What is Alpenglow?
Celebrate the Summer solstice
Working quietly along with quail
Seeing beauty in numbers Design in nature
Morning Stars
Design in Nature
Mysteries in the mulch
Celebration Sky
Of fog and rain
Christmas Day Dawn
Silent, and soft, and snow
Sitting…looking up at oaks
Snow days
Winter Solstice in the Sierra Foothill Garden
Designing the garden
Rain gardens for the Sierra foothills
Best winter flowering plants for the Sierra foothills
Thinking plant combinations in a California foothill garden
Melding gardens and gravel in the Sierra foothills
Butterfly Gardening: Living leaves in your garden
Spring 2006-New Front Beds
First Flower Beds
First spring at home
June 2005-Plants Brought from Home
Planning a large forest garden
Creating a long lasting garden
Daffodil design
The old goat shed
CA Native Plants
Drat! Pokeweed! No, Chokecherry!
Miner’s lettuce surprising seedlings
Inviting wildlife into your California garden
What to plant under oaks and pines in the garden?
Tried and true deer-resistant plants for California Foothills
Firewise Landscaping in the Sierra Foothills
Native plants of Lewis and Clark, found in the Sierra Foothills
Spring’s Ephemerals in the Sierra foothills
Soap Plant in full bloom Chlorogalum pomeridianum
Wild Wyethias- sunflowers in the foothills
Light reflected by elegant brodiaea
Summer native discoveries
Not Blow wives, Silverpuffs
Dandelion, Grand dandelion and Silverpuffs
A profusion of Pretty Face Triteleia ixioides
Enough Miner’s lettuce for a salad Claytonia
May Day bloomers and identifying new native plants
Foothill Penstemon, vivid and bright
Sulfur Flower, a native Californian butterfly magnet Buckwheat
Blue-eyed grass, a native gem Sisyrinchium bellum
A California native, served sunny side up Matilija poppy
Planting wildflower ‘muffins’ transplanting
California natives mix with Mediterranean neighbors
California Buckeye, always one season ahead
Manzanita ‘Howard McMinn’ and companions
Discovering and identifying the Oracle Oak Quercus x morehus
Marvelous Milkweed, part of a butterfly garden
Sweet vagrant’ tarweed Holocarpha heermannii, Madia elegans
California Fuchsia, easy to grow, complicated in name Zauschneria californica
Allelopathic Plants(What?) “I want to be aloooone” Manzanita, walnut
Mediterranean and Other plants
Buddleias never drop their flowers
Euphorbia, drama queen of the Sierra foothill garden
Barberry Blitz and Intriguing Iris
Western wildflowers from Wildseed Farms
August ‘Easter’ Lilies
Reblooming Iris ‘Hemstitched’
Ice Wings daffodils
An Explosion of Asters
‘Dragon’s Blood’ and first snow sedum
Tagetes Mexican marigold
Camellia ‘Yuletide’ Christmas
Lavender fields forever
Red and Pink flowers
Where the Wild Flowers Are mostly non-native
Violas in a bright December
Wildlife
Inviting wildlife into your California garden
Stellar’s jay means cold weather in Autumn
December deer What deer say
Western bluebirds in the Sierra foothill garden
The ordinary and the amazing birdbath Birds
Encouraging wildlife with a ‘habitat’
Our love bugs Bordered plant bugs
A bee and a wasp that are not Syrphid flies
Odd garden aliens Praying Mantis
Butterfly on the buddleia bush
How to: Meat Bee Trap Discouraging Yellowjackets
Outwitting gophers in the Sierra foothill garden
Edibles
Culinary Herb garden in a basket
How to make your own delicious dried tomatoes
Volunteer dill peeks in window
Have you ever baked a pumpkin?
My green onion garden
The Meadow project, month by month
What am I really doing in the garden in October? Planning and removing weeds
Do you dream of a natural and beautiful wildflower meadow? Finding and sowing seeding
Let’s check for progress on the meadow! Weeding and watching the weather
How to weed a meadow in the Sierra Foothills More weeding…letting the sprouts thrive
Let’s check on Fall and Winter projects! Identifying seedlings
The wildflower meadow in May Small triumphs
My California native meadow in June Starting to bloom
The midsummer meadow The peak bloom
Stomping down the Autumn meadow Neatening up
Native California meadow in the second year
Realities
Time Tracking in the Garden
Watering CA native plants in the Sierra foothills
Invasive plants and impatience in the garden Ugh…Mexican primrose
Woodpiles and other realities in the garden a neat garden
Past memories and changing your mind ripping out Shasta daisies
Gardening without Pain tips to safe gardening
The story of California native gardens is the story of weeds Strategies
Two garden accidents and a happy ending
Outwitting gophers in the Sierra foothill garden
Gardening biography and history
How Peckinpah Mountain got its name
Riding the High Country Central Camp Road- Madera County
Lester Rowntree, a hardy Californian CA Native plant pioneer
Franklane L. Sewell, artist to the chicken stars!
Native plants of Lewis and Clark, found in the Sierra Foothills
Why did these gummy resins make good presents?Frankincense and myrrh
Emerson in the Sierra foothills New Year
Winter Solstice in the Sierra Foothill Garden
New Zealand Inspiration
Preparing for a trip to New Zealand
New Zealand Week- Sunday- Rarangi Beach
NZ Week- Monday – Blenheim Wineries and Gardens
NZ Week- Tuesday – Totaranui and Abel Tasman Nat’l Park
Wild birds of NZ
NZ Week- Thurday — Art and Gardens of Nelson, NZ
NZ Week- Friday — Picton and the Marlborough Sounds
NZ Week- Saturday — The Plants of New Zealand
A New Zealand inspired California rock garden
Homebuilding
Your new life and its keywords Home planning
Building a command post Redwood table
Scale Map of the Sierra Foothill Garden
The rock outside the back door
Then and Now– the patios
Design-Using the colors of the Sierras
How we made our escape from the city and changed our lives
Choosing a home builder in the Sierra Foothills
Babes in the woods- preparing a place to build our house
Then and Now-The back slope
Diary
October 2000-The adventure begins…we buy property
2000 November- one step forward and two steps back
April 2001-We turn our property into a campsite
Design-Using the Colors of the Sierras
May 2001- Grading for Mother’s Day
July 2001 The world’s most expensive campsite
August 2001- Fire Strikes!
Autumn 2001- Settling into camp
Easter week 2002
Bike race down 007 trail
Memorial Day 2002
Country means outbuilding first, house later
February framing and planting without a hose
Photo stories
wordless blooming wednesday November 10, 2010 asters and sage
wordless corgi wednesday November 17, 2010 Maggie
wordless thankful wednesday November 24, 2010 birds
wordless watchable wednesday December 7, 2010 deer
wordless watery wednesday December 15, 2010 storm
wordless wintery wednesday December 22, 2010 pine
wordless waterlogged wednesday December 29, 2010 storm
wordless welcome wednesday January 5, 2011 camellia
wordless worn-out wednesday February 9, 2011 shoes
wordless woodland wednesday February 23, 2011 wood and sky
wordless weathered wednesday March 2, 2011 junkola
wordless weedy wednesday March 16, 2011 filaree
wordless watercolor wednesday March 23, 2011 cherry blossoms
wordless wildish wednesday March 30, 2011 blue flax
wordless white wednesday April 6, 2011 cherry blossoms
wordless wanton wednesday April 13, 2011 ceanothus
wordless warning wednesday April 27, 2011 storm on the mountain
Odd bits
Happy Valentine’s to my friends
Gardening globally….widening my horizons Neat blogs from faraway
Dave’s Garden Photo Contest entries– 2010
Switching from natives to roses on our mountain! This April first joke got me in trouble…oops!
When I’m ‘gardening’ on the net… links and resources
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