Streets of San Francisco

 

Book - A Field Guide to California Lichens

I found this book at the Huntington Gardens gift shop.  I wanted to learn more about Lichen and which ones I see in my gardens and environs.

This made me start to take photos up close of those in my gardens.  This first I need to ID is on an old rose cane in Eureka Valley.

The Huntington - Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens

The Huntington, near Pasadena in Southern California, San Marino to be exact, is a library, art museum and botanical gardens.  The Botanical Gardens is 130 areas with 16 themed gardens.  

Book - The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book

Since returning from England in 2023, I decided to stop reading the news every morning with my coffee and started reading my gardening books as my morning ritual.  I have not read most of my gardening books from cover to cover.  But since I changed my habit, I have finished over a dozen or more.   So I am starting a new series about my book collection.

First up a book I have had since my City College Horticultural days.  It is a simple premise that doesn't require a full book to understand although there are good ideas throughout, mostly for vegetable gardening.   Mulch your soil with hay and over a course of three years, you will see a dramatic improvement in your soil.  I am one that believes that I am really tending to the soil and the plants are on a separate level.