The Dry Garden: Vertical meadow
Jasmine Hawes and mother Ginny Hawes (background) kindly posed for scale in this summer's towering sunflower garden, planted as part of a conversion from lawn to a water efficient native garden....
View ArticleSlide show at the Arboretum
Tomorrow, Thursday September 15th, I will be presenting a slide show in “Garden Talks with Lili Singer” at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia. The subject: A year in a new...
View ArticleThe Dry Garden: Fall planting season
The question comes every spring as our state flower, Eschscholzia californica, blooms. “Is it too late to plant poppies?” The answer is no, it’s not too late. It’s perfectly late. Whether sowing...
View ArticleWeather that drives you to the nozzle
Source: NOAA. Click on the map to be taken to the Climate Prediction Center. With rainfall across Los Angeles less than half the putative average for this time of year, and forecasts making...
View ArticleEnd of days and weeks
As we enter Native Plant Week in California and approach Earth Day world-wide, this advocate of native plants and appreciator of the Earth will observe them exactly the same way that I observe World...
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