Author: Joyce Gross

It finally rained this month! Everything is greener.

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This has been an extremely dry December. Hope it rains soon.

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This is the best time of the year in the yard. After this, most things start to look browner and browner.

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The Fremontodendron.

Other backyard views.

Front yard.

The rose bushes leafed out and grew.

Nemophila menziesii (baby blue eyes) on left; Nemophila maculata (five spot) on right.

Ceanothus blooming in the foreground. Black sage and Mexican sage behind the ceanothus.

The purple flowers on the left are lupines, annuals I grew from seeds collected in Yolo County. The lupines there had galls (but my plants probably won’t).

Garden activity always needs supervising.

Waiting for the peas to grow.

Everything is growing fast. Every day new plants are starting to flower.

Phacelia campanularia

Phacelia viscida

Nemophila maculata

Mimulus aurantiacus

Eschscholzia californica

Eschscholzia californica maritima

Fremontodendron

Rose