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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Saturday Tweets: Passover/Holy Saturday Edition

...n) https://t.co/ICOjnBmWNw — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 27, 2018 Good urbanism. Kamakura, Japan. Continually inhabited since 8000 B.C. pic.twitter.com/bokyhj8wY3 — Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) March 31, 2018 The best climbers for shade | Alys Fowler https://t.co/mSGg4x4zCD pic.twitter.com/37z1Qx4zDW — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) March 31, 2018 Virginia opossums are the only marsupials native to North America. Just like the offspring...

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Garden Update Part II: The Good the Bad and a Lot of Ugly

...re under all that vegetation. A close look will also reveal a whole lot of baby fennel that, unless something called “weeding” is done, will take over the yard by summer. A greater threat is the asparagus fern (Asparagus aethiopicus) on the right, a vile and invasive plant that is proof of the fallen nature of this vale of tears. The plant in the center is from Annie’s annuals and I can’t remember the name of it. Kelly knows what it’s called but s...

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Saturday Tweets: Tweeterdämmerung

...and loss. — Richard D. Wolff (@profwolff) June 14, 2019 Decorate the ham, baby pic.twitter.com/DQ7kohx7Xx — 70s Dinner Party (@70s_party) June 14, 2019 We painted red bus-only lanes in popular transit corridors so that @Uber and @lyft would have a colorful location to drop off and pickup their rides. pic.twitter.com/eo8jd2LFxM — Militant Pedestrian (@transbay) June 28, 2019 On the Pleasures and Sorrows of Life Without Screens: https://t.co/OMqN8s...

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Babylon Ain’t Falling

...thy. It leads to paranoia and the feeling that a civil war in the Heart of Babylon is imminent. Whatever happens in the next week it’s not time to make brunch reservations. In this election we face a choice between a kind of incompetent proto-fascism (real fascists would organize the buses better at their rallies) and neoliberalism. Proto-fascism is worse but neoliberalism sows the seeds of fascism by worsening conditions for working class and mid...

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