Top Six California Native Plant Performers

...in the scientific name for this member of the buckwheat family. Give this baby some room. Ours is doing well in partial shade. 5. Toyon (Heteromeles arbutitolia) This treeish native stared the drought in the face and laughed. We planted it in the neighbor’s yard where it got cut down accidentally. A year later it had grown back to its former glory. Birds love the little red berries, which can be dried for a not very exciting human snack. 6. Coyot...

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Meet the Amazing Sierra Newt

...e’s the best part–he was breathing through his skin. The gills he had as a baby are long gone, traded for fledgling lungs when he left his birth pool. But once back in the water, he dispenses with those clumsy organs altogether and draws oxygen out of the water straight through his skin, in a process called diffusion. That’s right. This handsome orange show-off breathes in three different ways over the course of his life: by gills, by lungs and, c...

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Saturday Tweets: Eating Flowers, Peach Mustard and the Patron Saint of Dentists

...and those suffering from toothache, from her teeth being broken during a brutal attack before her martyrdom. Read more on her legend: https://t.co/HTvnmQhjm1 Yates Thompson MS 3, f. 284v #FolkloreThursday pic.twitter.com/6bBT8oJy3d — Dr Alison Ray (@liber_ray) August 30, 2018 Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose: A red rose is surrounded by couplets with music inscribed on two circular staves, in a choirbook produced in 1516 by Petrus de Opi...

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Saturday Tweets: Rainy Day Tweets

...✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿✊🏼 (@Pegerella) December 3, 2018 Oh, the beauty of seeing a Canadian baby being born. pic.twitter.com/SBmO8FBMK1 — Lloyd Legalist (@LloydLegalist) December 2, 2018 The gilet jaunes protests are geographically portentous- suburban and rural protestors angry at a city that both represents and materially benefits from elites’ decisions on who should pay for climate change mitigation. — david a banks (@DA_Banks) December 3, 2018 I’ve watched thi...

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