Marshall Beach

 It has been over 15 years since the Presidio became a national park in San Francisco.   This area between Baker Beach to the south and the Golden Gate Bridge to the north has undergone a transformation removing many invasive weeds and planting all natives.   

Flowers of March

 What is flowering in my gardens:

Freesias at Dearborn Community Garden

Book Review - The Gardener’s Palette

By Jo Thompson

A journey into color, this book with over a hundred selected color schemes will test your knowledge of what colors go together. Each scheme is two or three pages with a large photo and a plant list. It is hard to say if this is a reference book. Looking up say red,purple and apricot planting scheme is not easy as there is no real organization of the book. Or rather, I can’t figure out how this is organized. Maybe that will come to me on its second reading.