California Gardening: What's happening in your spring garden #4, 1 by SingingWolf

SingingWolf wrote:
What's your average annual rainfall up there? We are lucky to get 10" a year. So far we've only gotten 8". We are awfully dry still. Things are starting to bloom out early and get crunchy when I walk out there.
Foxtail season is approaching, already. I found the first one on Spirit today. I'm going to have to get him shaved for the summer.
Photo of the whole Yucca. The red flowers are the Monkey Pods, you can even follow the stem down to the plant. Who'd of thought that huge flower spike came from such an innocuous looking plant?
WIB,
SW