Finally it’s green again. All images below taken January 4, 2016.
I ran out of shelf space for seedlings in the greenhouse, so made a temporary table using old stuff lying around (including wood from the old deck), and sturdy new overly bright blue sawhorse legs.
The Fremontodendron has a new trellis behind it. Hopefully the bush will continue to do well and provide a good screen from the Buttheads.
The pea bed (area of bare soil on the right) is almost ready for planting.
The toyon is growing.
The Ribes will be blooming soon.
Lettuce and broccoli in the raised bed. There’s a kale bush by the other raised bed closer to the greenhouse. It’s a year old and provided kale all spring, summer, fall, and winter. The kale’s roots are in the raised bed, but the rest of the plant is outside the raised bed.
Harry’s Walking Stick (Corylus avellana ‘Contorta’)
Phacelia bolanderi, Phacelia californica, and Penstemon heterophyllus.
Eriogonum grande var. rubescens
Epilobium canum, after cutting it back for the winter.
Flags marking where I planted annual wildflowers.
A fungus from the side of the house called “dead man’s foot” (Pisolithus arrhizus) … maybe they got the common name for this one wrong.
Front yard. A lot of wildflowers reseeded from last year. I pulled lots out of the raised bed so I can plant additional (different) flowers from the greenhouse.
In the foreground is mostly Phacelia tanacetifolia, tansy Phacelias. The other flower that has reseeded like crazy in the front yard are two species of Clarkia, Clarkia unguiculata and Clarkia amoena (“farewell to spring”). I like Clarkia’s but it’s nice to have something besides Clarkia’s and tansy Phacelia’s….. A few lupines have reseeded for the first time. I hope they won’t get eaten by the birds.
These are mostly Clarkia’s, and the horrible oxalis or Bermuda buttercup (Oxalis pes-caprae) which I’m constantly pulling out.
Tansies and Clarkias, a lupine marked with the flags, a Datura wrightii to the right of the flags.
