plant profiles

Light reflected by elegant brodiaea

June's Blue Haze, Brodiaea This is a picture story of Elegant or Harvest Brodiaea in the Sierra foothill garden.  This is…

13 years ago

California Fuchsia, easy to grow, complicated in name

Growing California Fuchsia is like hanging out a neon sign to a certain pollinator, namely hummingbirds! It also fills a…

14 years ago

Planting wildflower ‘muffins’

A wildflower experiment In my garden, I sowed a native California wildflower meadow. It was a very fun project and…

14 years ago

wordless wildish wednesday

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14 years ago

Spring’s Ephemerals in the Sierra foothills

 My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care…

14 years ago

Native plants from Lewis and Clark, found in the Sierra Foothills

Lewis & Clark discoveries we can plant... In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson requested $2500 from Congress to send Meriwether Lewis and…

14 years ago

Firewise Landscaping in the Sierra Foothills

When landscaping in a fire risk area, like the Central Sierra foothills of California, you normally have to keep a…

14 years ago

Local, local, local

Welcome to Madera County Gardening Examiner , Facebook page. What you can do here: Get connected to informative articles about…

14 years ago

August ‘Easter’ Lilies

Three pots of lilies, with faded blooms, given to me by a friend in May 2009, were planted on the…

14 years ago

Western wildflowers from Wildseed Farms

Notes on Western Wildflower Mix from Wildseed Farms, planted in North Fork, CA (near Yosemite) Zone 7, 3000 ft.

14 years ago