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Fruit trees for Santa Rosa, ca
Posted by mouser1979
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Fascist_Nation(9b)Updated I usually find the local nurseries do a good job of identifying and having on hand what works well there and can tell you both what works, and what is experimental and on appropriate rootstocks. http://www.davewilson.com/sites/def...
Perennial Edibles for Southern Cal
Posted by booshified
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booshifiedUpdated First off thank you to everyone that has replied. -I have had my eye out for tree collards -Had not heard of Moringa Oleifera but I shall do some research. I did plant 2 different types of Sorrel recently and I am hoping they do w...
Out of Ideas for Side Yard
Posted by jubilante
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kittymoonbeamUpdated My neighbor has a wonderful winding brick path which has a wide spot in it for a bench under a crepe myrtle tree. On the driveway side are low plantings, and behind the bench around and behind the tree are taller plantings. A vine...
Cauliflower in Nor Cal - please share your wisdom for success!
Posted by homey_bird
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vall3fam(9 CentralCA)Updated Cauliflower is relatively easy to grow. Plant, water and pick! If you get cabbage looper caterpillars, since you only have six plants, you can just go out every day and hand pick them off. If that's too much, then you can spray wi...
Perennials/low-shrubs that love sun and heat, amended clay
Posted by jenn(SoCal 9/19)
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jenn(SoCal 9/19)Updated Thank you for the suggestions - I especially like the Lavender. I should also mention that our front yard has a naturalistic design and no lawn. It was completely re-landscaped several years ago, and now that the plants are mature...
Persimmons are showing color. Need to protect!
Posted by Suzi AKA DesertDance So CA Zone 9b
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napapen(ca 15)Updated I've already picked a bunch. If they are turning color, they will ripen off the tree and be protected. Penny
What do you have planted around daylilies?
Posted by socks
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socksUpdated I thought of thyme and have some elsewhere which I could just transplant as it has rooted in several places. I just want something to cover the soil a bit. I was thinking of the Mexican heather but not sure if it can take the full...
Help identify this strange plant that attach to the Rose
Posted by terrence123
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hoovb zone 9 sunset 23Updated I believe that might be Araujia sericifera, and it is considered a noxious weed in California. Here is a link that might be useful: Calflora: Araujia sericifera
All this before Breakfast!
Posted by Suzi AKA DesertDance So CA Zone 9b
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Suzi AKA DesertDance So CA Zone 9bUpdated Here is your update: After eating a leaf or two per day, of what I thought was Amaranth, I made a delicious dinner with sautee'd spinach like stuff. I even included garlic. Yummm! But after dinner, I had a hard time seeing my comp...
Removing mature Clematis and Rose for drought-tolerant plants
Posted by jenn(SoCal 9/19)
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jenn(SoCal 9/19)Updated Well - it's been a year and I've decided I'm going to bite the bullet and do it. This year has been a string of health issues that left little time and/or energy to babysit the plants. Westerland and the Clematis are beautiful whe...
fly infestation!
Posted by Jones0731
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hosenemesisUpdated Fly strips. They are icky, but they work.
Horsetail Rush
Posted by jeff_leites(9 San Fernando Valley, CA)
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calistoga_al ca 15 usda 9Updated This plant is almost impossible to get rid of, once it escapes from what ever you have it contained in. I have had inquiries for at least 20 years on how to get it out of the garden, but yours is the first on how to grow it, sorry...
racoons in the garden!
Posted by jen1262
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gregbradleyUpdated I've had a litter of skunks under my shed almost every year. They eat every snail they can find. They will get worms and grubs out of the mulch under my fruit trees. I've never had them dig in the lawn but sometimes they will dig ...
What to do in October in SoCal
Posted by hosenemesis
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hosenemesisUpdated Pat thinks November is even better than October for planting natives, min. Too funny, nil! I dread the day I must divide my daylilies, socks. Good luck.
Flower Identification Help
Posted by nancygreenthumb
7 Comments
hosenemesisUpdated Wow, Kathi! That's quite a show.
Aloe Vandbalenii disease?
Posted by elvie
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elvieUpdated Thanks hoovb and Stan. I was hand watering the Oscularia in late spring to get it established from cuttings and only watered that bed several times all summer, always avoiding the aloe and agave, but I am pretty random with the ho...
Mother-In-Law's Tongue Blooming
Posted by akarinz
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hoovb zone 9 sunset 23Updated Very cool! Thanks for sharing the photo.
Bittermelon in zone 9?
Posted by projectcop(9)
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hoovb zone 9 sunset 23Updated Subtropical to Tropical, so it wants to stay warm. I would recommend full sun, and reflected heat--reflected heat meaning from nearby light stucco or concrete walls, or concrete pavement--entities that absorb considerable solar he...
Wilting Cauliflower
Posted by vbgreens
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hoovb zone 9 sunset 23Updated Try 50% shade cloth over it during every heat wave, and maybe plant it where it gets afternoon shade. Cauliflower is difficult to get through heat waves. It dies or bolts before you get something edible. Easiest in Sunset 24, diff...
Watering trees
Posted by kristie_2007
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kristie_2007Updated Thank you for the valuable information
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