California Gardening: Happy Fall y'all, 1 by suewylan

suewylan wrote:
dillonsnana- No Guy yet, I think...he should come though. That's the first thing our guests ask is "Can we go to the Forks?"

SW -we get about 4-5 little snows that last a day and 1-2 snows that are 8" and are gone after 2-3 days. It's not the annoying snow and best of all no scraping of windsheilds which I've heard is a big pain.

So, here is the project so far..the Ugly plant sale plants are planted in groups, kind of at the corners, and I put down the rest of the pea gravel on the path down the side. Some laces, I had to really soak the ground to dig and some is nice and crumbly, especially under the mulched areas. Nice!

We're leaving for a week so I'll wait to plant the rest. All have nice watering basins to get them through this heat and hopefully it will cool off. Stormy today but no rain. Anyone have thunder today? I heard there were lightning strikes in Fullerton today.

I just found a source for native California wildflower seeds and a native meadow mix. The place I ordered from before, Wildseed Farms in Texas, has a lot of Shasta daisies in the Western Wilflower mix which have taken over. I've had enough of them...they can stay on the outer edge. At first I liked them because they remind me of my Grandma's row of them, but....

The meadow mix will go in the center of this planting area and I'm determined to keep the filagree and other weeds out. I like the idea of using all Cal natives.

Here's the seed source:

S&S Seeds in Carpenteria http://www.ssseeds.com/