This website will shift a bit to more focus on nature hikes and flora, and less on gardening. Gardening posts will now be in a widget, mostly seasonal updates or specific plants in the garden. Gardening remains a strong interest, but the website will have less content for the upcoming term.
Continue reading →The latest update can be found at this link – gcc-mag-landscape-1up-for-web-20250906_compressed-2.pdf
Continue reading →Frost took out a number of plants so I spent a number of hours pulling out tomatoes, cosmos, nasturtium, cucumber, squash, dahlias, and others, chopped them up and moved them to the compost heap. Removed dahlia bulbs for winter storage, and buried some potted plants for overwintering.
Continue reading →With wind and rain we opted to walk around McArthur Island, but we lingered along the native garden sections of the loop route.
Continue reading →Two hours of tennis then some time in the garden. Harvested more tomatoes, then processed them for winter storage. More tomatoes are ripening and even some still in flower.
Continue reading →A 12.25 km hike, but not a nature hike. I did spot a few wildflowers (no surprises though), and a patch of rattlesnake plantains.
Continue reading →I dug a hole for a fence post, then added concrete, but also cut the lawn, cleaned up, and harvested tomatoes. Clematis are flowering again.
Continue reading →A hike through the open forests and grasslands slopes near Joyce Gulch. Not much in bloom, except some rabbitbrush.
Continue reading →A hike through the sagebrush grasslands to find wild asparagus (successfully). A post to follow.
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