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    January 2016 - Garden Photos

    Feb 3, 2016 · 10 Comments

    I know it is February 3rd, and I am just now posting January Garden Photos. I could have backdated the post by a few days, but the truth is I just now got them edited to put up.

    January in a California native garden is actually just the beginning of a magical time. Especially if we keep getting rain. In my area we don't normally get snow (aside from last year's once in a decade storm). Though it does get down to at or near freezing overnight for a few more months. So no sowing delicate plants like tomatoes outdoors yet. Though I will be starting them indoors this week.

    After a long hibernation during the hot dry summer, once the weather chills and the rains come, most California native plants start to come to life.

    SIGH! Except for 3 large Ceanothus (California lilacs) like the one in the background below. They are all dead. 🙁

    Wildlife Habitat sign
    Have I mentioned my garden is a Certified Wildlife Habitat? fill out a form, pay a fee, get certified, with a swank sign to show it off.
    fallugia paradoxa - Apache plume
    The Fallugia paradoxa (Apache plume) has all been scalped back over the month and is now starting to sprout some leaves
    California lilac in January sprouting new leaves
    One of the surviving large Ceanothus (California lilac) is getting new leaves too.
    Ceanothus California Lilac
    While this low growing lilac appears to be budding already.
    Salvia starting to bloom
    And this Salvia (sage) also appears to be getting some blooms.
    white Arctostaphylos (Manzanita) blossoms
    But the Manzanitas (Arctostaphylos) are already blooming. Manzanita means little apple in Spanish, and in a few months these blooms will turn into tiny little fruits that resemble apples.
    Pink Arctostaphylos in bloom
    The Manzanitas with the pink blooms are a little further along than the white.

    [Tweet "California native gardens start to come to life in January. #gardening #photography"]

    The edible garden is coming along about as well as one can expect for this time of year.

    rosemary blossom
    The almost impossible to kill rosemary is covered in lovely little lavender flowers.
    raised garden bed in winter in California
    The raised bed with winter crops is growing... sloooooowly. Beets, lettuce, carrots and turnips from bottom to top.
    bare root strawberries in a hanging strawberry planter
    And much to my excitement, the bare root strawberries in the fancy hanging basket ($1 at Big Lots!) have actually started growing. Now it will be a gardening miracle if I get more than a handful of berries this season.

    Like so many gardeners I am in the season of hope and plan. I am hoping everything in the ground will produce and I am planning the spring plantings now. Hopefully my seed order will arrive soon.

    I will try to get February's garden photos posted in February. At least I have an extra day this year, ha ha!

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    1. Christina Morley says

      February 05, 2016 at 8:53 am

      How interesting! And your sign! I'm not an avid gardener, but I appreciate the pretty plants and I'm lucky that my mother-in-law makes a hobby of it and helps our garden look nice. I admire indigenous plants and the Western Cape, South Africa has an abundance.

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      • Audrey Humaciu says

        February 05, 2016 at 11:10 am

        Thanks, I love my native plants - but they would be out of place elsewhere. Some are highly invasive once outside of our dry climate.

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    2. Jess Powell (Babi a Fi) says

      February 05, 2016 at 5:13 pm

      I'm not a gardener at all but I do like looking at plants at least! The Manzanitas are really pretty! #fridayfrivolity

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      • Audrey Humaciu says

        February 06, 2016 at 8:01 am

        Thanks for coming by. The manzanitas are my favorite this time of year with their tiny little flowers blooming everywhere.

        Reply
    3. Lisa/SyncopatedMama says

      February 10, 2016 at 8:04 am

      We have been on a gardening break after losing a ton of $ and time to a scorched veggie patch a couple years ago. The yard rats (squirrels) absconded with the few veggies that survived, so we've been boycotting it all. We miss our food, though, so maybe we can brave the situation again soon...and I DO have a bunch of herbs I've been meaning to plant, so maybe I should just start with those...

      Reply
      • Audrey Humaciu says

        February 10, 2016 at 10:15 am

        We don't have squirrels but plenty of other little critters I battle, so I understand.

        Reply
    4. Jen says

      February 12, 2016 at 11:27 pm

      You are certainly right about the season of hope. We are supposed to be working on prepping beds and a garden plot this weekend. I have big dreams. I need to spend some time with our local master gardeners to actually create a cohesive plan.

      Thanks for sharing with us at Photo Friday!

      Reply
      • Audrey Humaciu says

        February 13, 2016 at 11:24 am

        Thanks, Jen. I love your party, even when I have nothing to share!

        Reply

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