Category: native plants
Our Western Hop Tree is about three years old now and is looking good, getting ready to produce its many fragrant cream-colored flowers. They will be set off…
The strange, spiky datura pod
The genus Ribes includes currants and gooseberries (the name is derived from a Farsi word meaning “acid-tasting”). Gooseberries bear thorns but currants are thornless. Gooseberry fruits are larger…
The beautiful California Cleome, one of the most drought-tolerant plants in the garden.
A California native plant. I wrote about this in “My Artemsia,” an essay appearing soon.
A California native.
At the Watershed Nursery in Point Richmond we picked up several California natives that we will be trying out in the garden. We also got a few nonnative…