Landscaping chat

Anybody describe your garden to me...any issues with your trees/plants? Sprinkler lay out? Timers?

Some of my favorites are the California natives. At this time the Toyon berry comes out with bunches of red berries. Dots the local hillsides with a seasonal red ness. There are several types of sage...white sage great for spiritual burning sessions. Buckwheat. Sumac. The prickly pear cactus and cholla do great in this Meditarranean (or maybe desert) type marine belt climate.

Cyanothus has great blue flowers in the spring. The "candle" yucca great between May and July...1000s dot the mountainsides and make a great candle light type appearance in sunrise and twilight. These found up to about 8000 feet above the sea.

The chamise needs very little water. 10 or more types of oak dot the canyon sides. The big cone spruce can grow off cliff sides well up to 5000 feet above the sea. An amazing conifer. Native sycamores and poplars nice as they get a nice orange color at this time. Pumpkin Halloween orange in the colder canyons.

The yurba santa has sandal like thick leaves and 1000s of purple flowers come out in the spring.

Hiking the local foothills was great in early 2005...that year the bloom lasted 5 months.