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100 Species Challenge Participants

Here’s a list of bloggers who are participating in scsours‘s very cool 100 Species Challenge. scsours, who started it all The Bookworm (England) Sandra Dodd (New Mexico) The Common Room family Monica...

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Places I’ve Learned about Plants

Genevieve asked: Okay.. maybe this is a silly question but how do go about learning about plants? We are surrounded by some beautifully landscaped areas but I have no clue how to start. The Peterson’s...

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100 Species Challenge: Lily of the Nile

2. Agapanthus, or Lily of the Nile Also called African lilies, these lovely shrubs grow in our front yard and all over town. Their bloom season is just passing now, so the globes of purple or white...

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Miss Rumphius Was Here

Grape soda lupines (lupinus excubitus). These grow wild on the roadsides here, intermingled with the wild mustard (Father Serra was also here). Just gorgeous. They’re supposed to smell like their...

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Milkweed and Friends

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My phone does not take good pictures.

But these beauties had to be captured. Happened upon this patch of color springing up between sidewalk and street in Normal Heights, San Diego. Picture these flowers times four—a glorious strip of...

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Names and Knowing

The week shimmers past quickly, and my head can’t quite keep up. I’m still chronicling Wondercon (although I will probably never get around to writing about the best part, the dinners with friends),...

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