We swung by the succulent section at the SF Botanical Gardens during our Saturday Plant ID class. We’ve been hard at work giving our garden a facelift this weekend. It’s looking good.
April 25, 2010
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Monthly Archives: April 2010
April 24, 2010
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Propagation Nursury Road Trip
My Propagation Class at CCSF took a field trip to Monterey County to check out a private nursery that still propagates plants old school style…vegetative stem cutting done by hand. Below is a bunch of Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)… Here … Continue reading
April 23, 2010
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Cape Sundew is Flowering
Our Cape Sundew (Drosera capensis) is flowering. We pick up this beauty about two years ago at California Carnivores up in Sevastopol CA. Carnivorous Plants are a strange bunch, but this one is actually fairly easy to grow. Cape Sundews … Continue reading
April 22, 2010
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Dividing Equisetum hyemale
Time to exercise our propagation skills. One of the easiest propagation methods is division, and Horsetail (Equisetum hyemale) is a great candidate to get divided. We rescued this Horsetail a couple months ago. It was abandoned on the curb, waiting … Continue reading
April 21, 2010
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Plant ID: Foxglove, Rose, Daisy
We’re up to 104 plants for our Plant ID class, Week 9. This is where it starts to get hard to keep them all straight, and remember the first plants we learned. I’m drawing blanks on quite a few of … Continue reading