Jaminia Today I noticed that standards have joined the minis and tazettas in the garden. The attached photos show St. Keverne, Jaminia, and Emerald Sea x (self or serotinous) 7 W-G from Harold Koopowitz. Here in the eastern margins of…
Author: Melissa Reading, California
phytoplankton bloom off Patagonia
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=48244&src=eoa-iotd This satellite photo from NASA shows the wildest phytoplankton bloom I’ve ever seen imaged. It is in the area off the coast of the argentine Patagonia, a little south of the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. Melissa
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late autumn, California
Yearbook
Indeed, if you’ve seen the lively article that Gwynne Davies wrote on the ADS Convention in Murphys last March for the Daffodil, Snowdrop, and Tulip Yearbook of the RHS, you’d understand why I enjoyed it. Thank you Gwynne! Sports enthusiasts…
off topic: ant lion
Mary Lou: In California we have something called an Ant Lion. It makes little “traps” like this to catch ants that may happen in. The sand is at the angle of repose, so they just slide down to the bottom…