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Vegetable Garden Peaking at the End of Spring
Summer is just a week away and the vegetable garden is in high gear. Here's a quick video with a 180° view. A description of what you're seeing is below
Honey Bees Dancing on a Pride of Madiera
Pride of Madiera flowers fill the pollinator gap between late spring and early summer. Honey bees love the big, sticky purple flowers so much the bush hums.
Jerusalem sage (Phlomis fruticosa)
A hardy, drought-tolerant perennial with lots of long-lasting yellow flowers in spring and summer. Easy care, it's a great garden plant for zone 4 and up
A Fairly Odd (and Rare) Avocado
North County San Diego is Avocado country. While you have probably seen Hass and Fuerte varieties, one type, the Don Gillogly, rarely travels beyond the county
Soiless Succulent Groundcover
Aeonium haworthii is an attractive, low growing succulent that will grow without soil on rocks. Better yet, it requires no water and will grow in partial shade
That’s No Cabbage – That’s a Dinosaur Kale!
I thought a friend had given me some "unusual" cabbage seeds, but it turns out they were dinosaur kale seeds. I get why it's called "dinosaur". It's a monster.
Garden Log: Ice Queen Lettuce
An old French heirloom crisphead (iceberg) variety lettuce with excellent summer heat tolerance. It can be grown year-round in USDA zones 9 and higher.
How to Make a Succulent Shade Garden
Think succulents are only for full sun? Think again! Many thrive in the shade. Here's everything you need to know to create your own succulent shade garden
Salvia Aurea (aka Golden Sage)
This easy care, drought tolerant, evergreen shrub has gray-green leaves year-round and showy rust-colored flowers in the the spring. A real garden standout!
Kalanchoe daigremontiana the “Mother of Thousands”
Kalanchoe daigremontiana aka "mother of thousands" is an easy-to-grow, low water succulent with striped, spear-shaped leaves and pink, bell-shaped flowers
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