Rain & Apricot blossoms!

After the driest January on record, we got a sprinkle of rain yesterday (2/22/22). I was surprised to see 1.8 inches of water in the rain guage at the pollinator plot. If that was from rain (not from hand watering on Tuesday), we are getting really patchy precipitation. We got only 0.2 inches in the La Cresta hill.

I am delighted to see that the naked buckwheat is spreading by seed into the open areas of the plot. Plants that are flowering include Island sage, gumweed, yarrow, penstemon. We wanted something flowering all year and it looks like that is happening. The bed is looking full.

We lost one of the creeping ceanothus that I planted in January. One newly planted bee bliss sage is looking a little stressed.

The apricot trees are starting to bloom. The pruning has been in process over the last two weeks. Last year pruning was in November. The previous week was relatively warm. Frosts are predicted this week.

Posted on 24 de fevereiro de 2022, 04:46 AM by jmpackard