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First Stop Rose Nursery The Cambria Garden Club has hosted an overnight annual spring trip for the past 30 years. This year it was no different. For most of the thirty years, the club has alternated between northern and southern California, visiting such places as the Huntington Gardens, Golden Gate Park and Botanical Gardens, [...] 
Spanish Lavender in Bloom Spanish lavender is always the first lavender to bloom in my garden. I love this variety called Lavandula stoechas for its flower heads topped with a tuft of large purple, petal-like bracts. It’s brighter in color than the English and French lavender and shows up from a distance as more [...] 
Shallot tops beginning to brown. We’re getting a little rain today, but so far, wind has upstaged moisture. Knowing that a storm was coming, I got out and harvested my shallots last week. Their tops were still green. Only their tips had turned brown, but I needed the beds to put in some transplanted [...] 
Narcissus blooming, spring is here! I’ve been working on the vegetable beds. They are pretty much filled up now. Snow peas, arugula, lettuce, strawberries, komtsuna (tendergreens), carrots, and beets have all been planted. Some are flourishing, some have not poked their heads above the earth as yet. The vegetable boxes are pretty much filled [...] 
Growing Lemons in a Cool Climate I wrote an article for The Cambrian published on April 15. It covered the growing of lemons and limes in our cool climate. Oranges and grapefruits need heat to sweeten. They are not good candidates for a coastal climate that seldom gets over 75 degrees. I also wrote about [...] |
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