Opinion

Think like a plant. The weather might be cool one day, really hot the next day. And your plants are growing like mad in order to reproduce, which is their life’s work. All this takes water, which is the elixir of life for us...

I used to live in Bonny Doon where a huge Tasmanian Tree Fern grew without care on the “lower forty.” It was over 50 years old at the time of the fire having been planted by the original builder of the house. I guess...

My little garden bounced back pretty quickly after our recent snow. Other than the calla lilies that are none too happy now but will recover, the rest of the plants seem just fine. The native and ornamental flowering trees are coming on like nothing...