• Summer Focus

    By Susan Krzywicki, landscape designer of “Native Gardens…Green Living” and Native Garden Committee memberAs we pull into mid-summer, the garden focus is diffused over a wide array of plant activity. Bees are buzzing, some plants quiet down, and you can start to look forward to what the fall plantings will be. Time to look around and note seasonal differences, places that need refreshing, and holes that develop. Besides the reliable bloom of our Cleveland sages (Salvia clevelandii), here are some other garden choices local to our area.

  • A Small Milestone

    By Arne Johanson, Co-chairperson Habitat Restoration CommitteeI noted the following in Bob Byrnes' weekly restoration committee email: “Last week we noticed for the first time a large area of Goldenbush (Isocoma menziesii, I believe) and California sagebrush (Artemisia californica) interspersed with the endless artichoke thistle (Cynara cardunculus to us nerds) that I often mention in these emails. We treated the artichoke last week, leaving the natives to continue to thrive and spread. This is yet another encouraging sign that recruitment following the disastrous fire of four years ago is proceeding nicely.”