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

SingingWolf wrote:
KC, I do believe you are right. Deerweed.
What a laugh, haven't seen any mule deer around here for about 18 years, and that was dead by the freeway. Just about the same time we got rid of DH's Gma's herd of Nubian Goats. Good to know not only is it a good filler, but also known as California Broom, and fixes nitrogen back into the soil. Good recovery plant. It's taken 20 years to start to get anything other than the established trees to flower. DH's G.ma used the goats for weed control and for milking. I hated them vicious, wild, smelly, ungulates. At least she didn't have to worry about fires with those goats around. LOL. Just the mountain lions that would prey on them. No joke. I saw one once.
Of course I didn't have a camera, and DH wouldn't believe me until after he'd talked to some neighbors. Come to think of it, one tried to get into the bunny hutch, left blood and teeth marks to prove it too. We scared it off. I don't know if small, angry people with flashlights would do that now, though. I'll carry my ugly stick the next time.
YS and I saw it jump over 7 feet high to escape from us. Glad it was mostly dark or I'd have needed clean undies. Also glad I had a witness. DH didn't believe us until he saw the marks and blood.
Okay, that was a weird trip down memory lane.
ecrane, we are a lot dryer, and hotter here. Just 10 miles south of us, they get the rain and the fog. We get sneered at. See the photo taken today. The fiddleneck is already drying out. (The brown stuff in front of the Monkey Pod flower)
I'm used to it. I like it now I have some shade around the house, and my backyard oasis. LOL!
WIB,
SW