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Pineapples in Bay Area (mid-peninsula)
Posted by homey_bird
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kerrican2001(z9b CA)Updated Bahia, how hot do they need to be? In Walnut Creek, where summers are among the hottest in the Bay Area, I imagine we'd have some luck? We have a great covered porch next to the house that is basically frost-free that might be wor...
Rose of Sharon in coastal CA?
Posted by mc510(9b)
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kerrican2001(z9b CA)Updated Yeah, I mean if you live in Berkeley, I'd just go with Chinese hibiscus and enjoy the fact that you can grow it there. I've seen some huge specimens there. I always think evergreen trumps deciduous.
Leucadendron success in Bay Area
Posted by Sara Malone Zone 9b
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Sara Malone Zone 9bUpdated I can't add any more than I've noted already...I am now treating these plants as short-lived, like lavender and such, and consider them accents in the garden (which is how they function anyway, given their dramatic coloring). So n...
Some of my eggplant fruits are mustardy yellow?
Posted by tuesdayschild
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sheloolieUpdated I'm very glad I came upon this conversation. Have three varieties of eggplant growing, and the Indian variety, which usually produces dark purple fruits, has one main branch on which all the fruit are this mustardy yellow color. T...
Grubs in Garage
Posted by Yosale
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jean001a(Portland OR 7b)Updated Definitely NOT Japanese beetle grubs. But as has been said, grub of the fig beetle, aka green fruit beetle.
Pomegranates for Jelly Making
Posted by ShannaS
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nanabelleUpdated Making Pomegranate Jelly brings back memories. I had a Wonderful Pomegranate Tree and made Jelly and also Syrup for a good number of years. It was a learning process. I ended up using a blender to separate the juice from the seeds...
Ideas for a stone path
Posted by hostarasta(z9)
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SeanPez(9)Updated Why don't you plant some shrubs that will grow 3-4ft tall, then you can have total separation and some privacy between the properties. :) Split the cost for the plants, or wait until bare-root rose season, go to the local home dep...
landscape design suggestions please :-)
Posted by 2princesses
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daveg(z9 CA)Updated You are right about one thing. Your entry is drab and uninvited. Perhaps you would consider some flowering trees and some pleasant shrubs. I would probably plant three flowering cherries. They have pink flowers in the spring, are ...
Landscape design suggestions please :-)
Posted by 2princesses
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hoovb zone 9 sunset 23Updated You are in an arid area, is there ANY reason for the lawn? Lawn is cheap--super cheap--to install, and very expensive to maintain in terms of mowing, watering, fertilizing, weeding. The developer put in the cheapest thing possible...
Two-stemmed Sprout with Four Semi-transluscent Red Leaves
Posted by clarkkon
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hoovb zone 9 sunset 23Updated it does sort of look like a nandina.
These are NOT carnations! But what are they??
Posted by sooz
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catkim(San Diego 10/24)Updated Hm. ...weeds? Is it possible your seed didn't make it and the weeds blew in? Fall planting is here... :-)
Pentas - where do you grow it?
Posted by jenn(SoCal 9/19)
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hosenemesisUpdated They barely get going before the frost gets them here. Not worth the expense. Renee
More landscape design suggestions please
Posted by 2princesses
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2princessesUpdated I love this forum. All of you are SO great! :-)
help with bulbs/lilies? why won't they DIE?
Posted by cottagecindy
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cottagecindyUpdated I can take a pic of the next one I pull, which I'm sure is there now, but it sounds like each time i see one I'll just dig it up, making sure i get the bulb. But will it "spread" or stay contained in the bulbs that I yan...
Magnolia Grandiflora "Hasse"
Posted by fortunecookies
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jakkomUpdated There's still a number of good independent nurseries all over the Bay Area. Let your fingers do the walking and start calling them. If necessary you can special-order it, but doing so is VERY expensive.
Anyone know where I can find a fuchsia paniculata in the Bay Area
Posted by SFGuy
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jakkomUpdated I'm very fond of the variegated "Firecracker" F. paniculata. The CVS Garden Center (alas, disappearing slowly by the end of the year) often carried it, but I've been finding it on occasion at East Bay Nursery, where I ju...
fall veggies
Posted by tim45z10
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hosenemesisUpdated I'm going to put in spinach this week. Renee
Best vegie garden border plants?
Posted by HappyinmyGarden1000
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sautesmomUpdated Snapdragons and stock will keep flowering, and any bees that are still around once it gets cold will visit both. My pineapple sage is just starting to flower now, flowers a long time and it also is attractive to hummers. In early ...
Climbing Plant for Front of House
Posted by sarzp
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sarzpUpdated Thanks SO much for the great suggestions! I adore star jasmine so may go with that but now I'm looking at pictures I'm also loving the Beaumontia grandiflora and Solandra maxima. They're a bit more original. Will post pics with th...
Insane Heat In So. CA
Posted by kittymoonbeam
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wcgypsy(10 / Sunset 23)Updated Wish I were there today...grumbling....94 here today....not as bad as 110, but still not good...lol..
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