Picture Sundays: Root Simple Compound Caught On Google Street View

It appears that Google Street View, back in April, caught me in the act of contemplating cleaning the garage. You can tell from my posture that I’m in the intellectual rather than the physical stage of garage sorting. In the front yard the fruit trees have leafed out, clarkia is blooming in the sparse parkway, the nopal is loaded with immature fruit and the roses have yet to climb the entrance arbor. If only I had a Root Simple banner and and an...

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Picture Sundays: CritterCam Reveals Skunk

...You know that post I did earlier this year about skunk proofing the yard? I set up the new Root Simple CritterCam last night and it’s pretty obvious that skunk proofing project goes in the fail category. Many thanks to Max Morgan for directing me to the correct camera to use for small critters: the Wingscape BirdCam Pro....

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Picture Sundays: Inside a Corpse Flower

We went to the Huntington Gardens yesterday to see their corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum—and, yes, that is a NSFW scientific name) which was set to bloom soon. A few minutes after we arrived an excited docent ran thought the conservatory letting everyone know that the flower was starting to open. We had lucked out. It takes years for the plant to bloom and the flower does not last long. We left to have lunch and when we came back horticultu...

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