Warm soil combined with cooler ambient temperatures promotes both root growth and development.

This blog post will concentrate on my planting regimen and plant establishment.  Fall is the best time to plant your California native plants, but winter and spring work too. 

Approximately 75% of the world’s flowering plants and about 35% of the world’s food crops rely on animal pollinators, like bees, to reproduce.  If we did not have pollinators, we would lose about three-quarters of the plants on earth.  The food web would collapse.

Natural nectar from the early winter blooming common manzanita, Arctostaphylos manzanita just in time for the hummingbirds and bees.

This blog is about gardening with native plants in one of the most extreme Mediterranean climates on earth.