r/Ceanothus

I've only had it for a few months and it's probably my rarest plant so I am over the moon. It's tripled in size too!

My first Cleveland sage went in this winter, and I’m absolutely going to get a few (or several) more. They’re just gorgeous.

I just picked up a San Clemente Island Buckwheat and a Nude Buckwheat from Artemisia Nursery in Los Angeles. San Clem is a St. Catherine’s Lace variation endemic to San Clemente Island. It grows smaller, has similar flowers, and longer, narrower leaves. Amaze!

it’s becoming apparent that I’m getting really into weird buckwheats. I know everyone’s familiar with the common ones - Redflower, California, st. Catherine’s lace, and Santa Cruz. But I’d love to hear about some of the weirdos you’re Growing.

right now, I’ve got a bunch of Conejo buckwheat germinating. I’m up to five starts, and I’ve got a lot more seed incoming. I also have a couple of longstem buckwheats that look great, a bunch of seacliffs, and a hybrid Santa Cruz x st. Catherine’s lace that has fabulous foliage and form.

Hi all, I'm pretty new to outdoor container gardening and decided to do my patio in all natives. Most are doing really well. I have two Yankee Points. One is great and the other is not. The leaves felt really dry and were starting to yellow/brown and I thought maybe I was underwatering (I've been letting the top 3-4 inches totally dry out), so I gave it a good soaking and now it looks even worse (see photo). Everything feels really brittle and dry. It is potted in cactus mix provided by the nursery where the plant was purchased.

I live in Culver City and the plant is on a north-facing patio that gets direct light mid-afternoon. I'm just not sure why one Yankee Point is doing well and the other isn't since I have been treating them the same way.

Is there anything I can do to save it? Thanks so much!

They both came that way. Been in the ground for 2 weeks. Riverside area.

I’m wondering if anyone here is making design decisions or plant selections now with the expectation that the next few decades or so will be much hotter? My motivations for planting natives started with me wanting to reduce our water bill and create a pretty garden. In the past couple of years of learning about native plants, my motivations have evolved to include creating habitat for other animals and, with the increasing frequency of heatwaves in inland SoCal, CREATE MORE SHADE. Trees have become my priority. I used to be wary of trees (“they’re messy, they’re dangerous-they get too big, they bring pests”) but I’ve lost that cultural indoctrination and trees have quickly become my insurance against a future in which my local climate is much hotter and energy is much less abundant. Natural ACs. Anyways anyone else thinking of stuff like this?? Also shout out to coast live oak for being the best tree ever

Picture is of historical Google street imagery of a relatively young coast live oak near me.

The expansive genus of Lupinus ranges from annuals, woody shrubby perennials and herbaceous perennials, but when we greet them in habitats with extreme environmental conditions we can see their adaptation. Lupinus breweri lives in Alpine or other high elevation habitats exposed to snow pack, high winds, and substrates that have sparse to open vegetation. It takes on a mat-groundcover form from high winds and enjoying any warmth it can collect from its substrate that absorbs intense sunlight. It's one of those grape soda scented lupines as I walked perhaps through 1.5 km of just this lovely species, I had such lovely aromatics of this lupine with skunk scented monkey flower.

Had my sister order me a 15g with her landscaping order and the manzanita the sent has lots of exposed roots. I was going to wait until fall to plant it. Should I cover these roots with soil? Does it look root bound?

I bought these seed packets from each in the spring, but thought it was interesting to see the weight comparisons. None of the packets have been opened (waiting for fall)

Tried looking back on my receipts for prices but couldn't find either. Iirc each packet was around the same price.

I've seen people express wariness because the Walqaqsh website is a bit vague on precise amounts, but having bought dozens of seed packets at this point I've never gotten one where I feel I got less than I expected.

I still buy from CNPS too (got some goosefoot, sneezeweed, + morning glory sprouting from them currently), but I've yet to see anyone beat Walqaqsh on bang for the buck.

Somewhat unrelated but I've heard Chia likes being mixed with ash to germinate. What's your experience with it?

Happy germinating, everyone 🤟

Been trying to ID It for like 3 hours and it's driving me mad lol, any help is appreciated

Stumbled across this today, getting ready to watch it, so thought I's share.

https://www.pbs.org/video/california-in-bloom-vqxrmf/