The veggie garden is ankle- to calf-deep in miner’s lettuce this time of year. It began with a single generous packet of seed a few years ago, and now it comes back reliably–if by “reliably...
So there I was, a couple years ago, walking the quiet galleries of the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, when I encountered this patch of urban decrepitude: Weeds! Growing in the cracks betwe...
Part of this weekend’s tasks was to help install signage at a couple of the gardens that will be on the Garden Native garden tour this weekend. How many times have you gone to a garden and seen...
This weekend I had a chance to revisit five of the twenty gardens that will be on the 2015 Garden Native Tour on March 28-29. One cool sighting was the new CNPS sign that features a monarch butte...
https://lostinthelandscape.com/getting-close-to-the-2015-garden-tour/
With several days above 80 degrees this week, it’s feeling like spring. And surveying the garden, it’s looking like spring too. Lest any of you in the lands of blizzards and crazy snowfall th...
What kind of vegetable gardener are you? Do you spend winter charting out rows and developing timetables for when things needs to go into the ground? Or does chance play a big part in what’s in...
It’s only recently that I’ve gotten back to posting, and there’s close to a year’s worth of stuff that might have been blog-worthy. Here’s a short, redacted list of 2014 highlights: All...
The coyote bush (Baccharis pilularis) that I grew from wild-collected seed a few years ago is now a pretty major heap of greenery, something on the order of ten feet tall and even wider. The plan...
https://lostinthelandscape.com/the-gloriously-messy-coyote-bush/
This will be my second year helping out with the photography for the spring native garden tour of the San Diego CNPS chapter. Last year I supplied a few of the images, but I mostly helped editing...
I often talk about all the weeds that come up in the garden. But fortunately there are lots of good guys coming up nicely. One little experiment the past two autumns and winters has been seeing h...
https://lostinthelandscape.com/a-little-seed-viability-experiment/