Blogs about: California Native Plants
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Cuttings: Love and Patience
I’ve I’ve been trying to find a little time to get back into writing regularly. As I’ve always believed its better to do it right, and if you can’t than wait until you can. I… more →
Learn About Plants and Trees From a Pro!
Front Yard Landscaping pt 1
flatheadnerd wrote 2 days ago: Our front yard has been a forest of jade plants. They seem to be the only plants that do well under … more →
Trees who wait...
thedeeperwell wrote 1 week ago: There is a kind of lull here, some of the trees are dropping leaves, the Chinese pistache trees plan … more →
Matilijas
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rose ramirez wrote 1 week ago: One of our most beautiful flowers in the Californias is the glorious matilija. The matilija blooms f … more →
Eucalyptus in California
rose ramirez wrote 2 weeks ago: I have to admit I love the old California pastoral images with the bigger than life eucalyptus. Unfo … more →
Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens
rose ramirez wrote 2 weeks ago: I don’t know if I have ever visited the gardens this time of the year before, but it was very … more →
open-weave juncus baskets
deborah small wrote 3 weeks ago: Luis Rodriguez, below, is a student in master basketweaver Abe Sanchez’s whole rod juncus basketweav … more →
California Ethnobotany
deborah small wrote 1 month ago: Gaudalupe Montes Edible, Medicinal, Material, Ceremonial: Contemporary Ethnobotany of Southern Calif … more →
gathering juncus
deborah small wrote 1 month ago: Master basketweaver Abe Sanchez gathering Juncus textilis, one of the four predominant plants used f … more →
prickly pear glochids and spines
deborah small wrote 1 month ago: The glochids are the ochre-colored hairlike projections on this native prickly pear cactus, beautifu … more →
Dragonfly Lecture / Dorothy Ramon Learning Center
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deborah small wrote 1 month ago: On October 19, Rose Ramirez and I are giving a presentation about our ethnobotany project at the Dor … more →
prickly pear / tuna juice processing
deborah small wrote 1 month ago: I love this painting, El Tunero, or Prickly Pear Gatherer, by Fernando Castillo, 1937. Only a few of … more →
Nopal Health
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rose ramirez wrote 1 month ago: I am a nopal lover. The flowers are beautiful, the fruit delicious and the pads…. well they ha … more →
Native Plant Fair and Sale October 10-11
Heidi Rand wrote 1 month ago: Fawn lilies The East Bay Chapter of the California Native Plant Society will host their Fourth Nativ … more →
Harvesting Rain Water, A Drop In The Bucket?
simplesuburb wrote 1 month ago: I have wondered about collecting rainwater for a couple years now, a dream in my head like hiking th … more →
Teodora Cuero's snake story
deborah small wrote 1 month ago: Teodora Cuero from La Huerta in Baja (see Bladderpod post above) told us a gathering story, which an … more →
Opuntia robusta / dinner plate prickly pear
deborah small wrote 2 months ago: Opuntia robusta. What a beautiful plant. These pads are monsters, thick and heavy, and the fruits re … more →
Learn about gardening with California Native Plants on Oct 3 in Three Rivers
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thedeeperwell wrote 2 months ago: NATIVE PLANT SALE Sponsored by the Alta Peak Chapter of the California Native Plant Society October … more →
Lydia Vassar / Diania Caudell
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deborah small wrote 2 months ago: Last night we presented the first in a series of three ethnobotany events at California State Univer … more →
Ethnobotany Events at CSUSM
deborah small wrote 2 months ago: All events are free and open to the public. Please join us. … more →
