SPRING IS COMING! Living here in Southern California at this time of year, I like to offer hope to those of you living in colder climes — Spring is coming!!! I have eaten strawberries from my container garden already and have potatoes and onions rising from the soil. It will soon be the same [...]
Out on a walk with friends yesterday, I spotted this damaged bougainvillea. This is what happens to tropical plants here in Los Angeles when we get one of our, unfrequent, dips below freezing. This bougainvillea will recover, as it only damaged part of the plant, but you can see how bougainvillea is totally unprepared to deal with freezing [...]
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According to my go-to weather prediction and history site, WeatherSpark.com, we did indeed drop below 32F last this morning around 5-6am. Luckily, it only remained below freezing for about about an hour. A friend reported frost on their car this morning, so that seems to confirm that frost did hit, at least in certain areas [...]
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 154 PM PST WED DEC 19 2012 …SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHLAND OVERNIGHT… THERE WILL BE ANOTHER ROUND OF SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES OVERNIGHT INTO EARLY THURSDAY MORNING…PRODUCING AREAS OF FROST. * TEMPERATURES…FALLING TO BETWEEN 28 AND 32 DEGREES ACROSS WIND SHELTERED LOCATIONS LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. [...]
Finally. What more can you say? While we had a short dose of rain a few weeks ago, it did almost nothing for the dry as parchment soil. Hopefully our day long bout of steady rain will soak a little deeper this time. Even more, I hope it bodes the beginning to our Winter here [...]
A few photos from an infrequently seen rainy day here in Southern California. Click to view individual pictures full size on Flickr
If you have a lot of mature trees on your property like we do, you will be faced with this project once or twice a year. In our case, we sometimes fall down on the job and don’t get to it when we should. This year, though, I see Fall approaching rapidly even here in [...]
I usually like rain for the garden but 12 hours+ of heavy, heavy rain is enough. There is still more on the way, too, including what looks like a nasty band of the heaviest rain yet today. I I had rain barrels I can guarantee that they would all be full now. Wow!
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