Last Chance to Win Theodore Payne Garden Tour Tickets, A Note on Our Backyard and a Mini-Rant

...arden Tour ticket giveaway. We have slowly introduced more and more native plants into our garden for a few reasons: to reduce water use, to sustain wildlife and to reduce maintenance. On that last point I’ll note that there is no such thing as a zero maintenance garden, but I will say that California natives are, generally, a lot less fussy than annuals. This year we’ve also decided to hire a professional to come up with a design for our troubles...

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Saturday Tweets: Squirrels and Other Stuff

...ditional landscaping puts plants in solitary confinement. In this setting, plant lose resiliency #txplants pic.twitter.com/PLK44HpUUh — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) January 11, 2017 Could you make zero trash for 30 days? https://t.co/AeLJT0Bj7M — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 10, 2017 Add Pockets to Any Skirt or Dress Without Ruining the Look https://t.co/sOM8klCneq via @lifehacker — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 10, 2017 Cryptography o...

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Rapini!

...and rapini as “flavorful”. Actually rapini is not related to the broccoli plant and is instead more closely related to turnips. The variety we planted is called Cima di Rapa Quarantina and is available from growitalian.com. Thanks Los Angeles for not enforcing your parkway codes! Sometimes LA’s lack of attention to sidewalks (at the current rate, no joke, it would take 200 years to fix LA’s crumbling pedestrian infrastructure) has its advantages....

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Saturday Tweets: Root Simple’s Miscellanies

...@StreetsblogUSA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 26, 2017 Monty Don’s 80 Plant Cultures of the World | Garden Rant https://t.co/ZcWtXJhMkH — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 26, 2017 How one LA community is uniting to transform Jefferson Boulevard https://t.co/dAuyuBVbL1 via @CurbedLA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 24, 2017 Aging Parents With Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t Want It https://t.co/7SZawSx658 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) Au...

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