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Lavendar Used as a Border Just as the Spanish lavenders are ready for cutting back, the English lavenders are offering up their spiky color. There is a lot of confusion about English lavender (L. augustifolia). For one, they are not natives of England but the Mediterranean. They are coveted for their dried fragrant flowers [...] June is a good time along the coast to thin apples on your apple trees. Cutting off the 1″ apples growing in clusters (after the “June drop” when trees shed some apples naturally) is essential if you want to have average sized apples in the fall. This “Beverly Hills” apple tree produces many apples and [...] Basil leaves ready for use. Those of you who live along the central coast know that growing basil is a challenge. Growing tomatoes and basil is nearly impossible! The weather here seldom gets over 70 degrees and both tomatoes and basil need heat. Inland, you have little trouble with these two summer menu essentials, [...] Pot, soil, packing peanuts and Arborvitae It took us a month to find pots to fill two corners of our deck. Since the Monterey Pines came down between us and the ocean, the glare and barrenness of our deck made us feel that something was missing. To remedy this, I got pots first then [...] |
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