Category: Monthly Garden Advice

Buckwheats and butterflies, long days, warm nights, and afternoon heat that you can almost hear reverberating around the garden… or is it simply the audible

Hello summer. Well, it looks like 5.67” will be our total at TOLN for the rain-year 2020-2021, which officially ends at the end of this

May is the Pre-summer month when we kiss spring goodbye and open the door for the warm season to come in. The garden is abuzz.

The swallows, normally a few days early, but never this late (Swallows Day in San Juan Capistrano is March 19), have not arrived. They pretty

      You can’t discover unless you explore.    On a recent trip to the desert I snapped a picture of Charlotte, my two

Jepson, said something to this effect almost 100 years ago: “The natural surroundings of Californians are singularly rich and varied. A scientific interest in at

Happy New Year! That’s the word looking at the calendar anyway. In the natural garden we celebrate New Year’s on September 1 as the start

DECEMBER Winter, you might say, though at this writing I’m outdoors in shorts and a tee shirt. Crisp you might say, because the nights are

November in the Natural Garden A fall day in Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve. The best things in life are worth waiting for. Now Fall

To be fair, our title for September as a season called “Pre-Fall” should really be changed to “Post-Summer.” Fall may start in October, but summer’s