During Northstate Public Radio’s Spring Membership Drive April 19th – April 28th, 2013 there will be no regular programming of In a North State Garden. Please join in and Listen to In a North State Garden’s membership drive special one-hour,… Continue Reading
California pipevine (Aristolochia californica) April is all about being at home on our planet – around the country with Earth Day on April 22 and National Arbor Day on April 26th, but also around the state with the third annual… Continue Reading
In an early cool spring evening after a refreshing rain recently, I left off making dinner to take our big garbage cans out to the street for the early morning pick-up. Pollen and tree-tassel debris from the spring trees littered… Continue Reading
April in the garden is so electric with life, renewed growth and colorful bloom that for me it swings back and forth between intoxicating and over-stimulating – for my eyes, my ears, my head. Our cups – as they say… Continue Reading
One of the joys of late winter through much of spring and into early summer is the dramatic performance art that is the unfurling of magnificent Magnolia blooms throughout the urban areas of the North State. In home gardens and… Continue Reading
My garden is abuzz on several levels. Everyday, more and more of my favorites come into their blooming season: yellow ribes, pink ribes, brilliant yellow mahonia, glowing blue ceanothus, yellow fremontia….and more. This visual “buzz” is accompanied by the literal… Continue Reading
In the 2011 growing season, market gardeners Brian Marshall and Nancy Heinzel owners of Sawmill Creek Farms in Paradise, stretched themselves and their 3 acre-CSA and market garden further than it had been stretched before and began growing a portion… Continue Reading
“There is a certain slant of light/ on winter afternoons/ that oppresses…” wrote the poet Emily Dickinson. But Emily, an avid gardener herself, knew just as surely that this same slant of light – made slightly higher and longer with… Continue Reading
Ahhh fragrance….all I can say is “thank you” to the universe of sweet scents. With all these plants in bloom again, seemed an apt time to revisit this piece. Enjoy. My Daphne odora began its seasonal bloom this past week… Continue Reading
Every year Shrove Tuesday arrives – the day before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, the Catholic/Anglican/Episcopal 40-day season of thoughtful repentance and fasting before Easter – and I think to myself: “it’s pancakes for dinner tonight.” Photo: Two… Continue Reading
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