The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, climate, birds and/or flowers. All are worthy additions to the bucket. Please let us know what is going on around you in a comment. Include, as close as is comfortable for you, where you are located. Each note is a record that we can refer to in the future as we try to understand the patterns that are quietly unwinding around us. |
Castro Valley, near Oakland, CA; approx 37.7N by 122W, 400 feet elevation.
This is part of my ongoing project to document the changes in our yard from month to month.
May 2018 is here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/31/1768040/-The-Daily-Bucket-May-2018-Yard-Report
April 2018 is here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/30/1760838/-The-Daily-Bucket-April-2018-Yard-Report
March 2018 is here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/24/1751308/-The-Daily-Bucket-March-2018-Yard-Report
February 2018 is here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/2/1745924/-The-Daily-Bucket-February-2018-Yard-Report
January 2018 is here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/31/1737413/-The-Daily-Bucket-January-2018-Yard-Report
December 2017 is here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/19/1725283/-The-Daily-Bucket-December-2017-Yard-Report
As of June 7, 2018
south from the back door
geranium and false hedge
pineapple sage and california fuschia
santa barbara daisies
naranjas
southern ribes
amaryllis, milkweed in front
hanging onions
out-of-control grapes
There's a grape cluster dead center, for scale
grapes, so to speak
back view of escalonia, now pruned to fence level
blackberry and bunchgrass bookending idle compost bin
sage behind bunchgrass, much of cover is native spreading strawberries
pineapple sage
ribes sprouted from cutting
strawberry guava
coffeeberry behind guava
an apricot, they're yellower but far from ripe today
north from back door
fuschia and trumpet vine
some ferns, a rhododendron and camillia
hydrangea buried in trumpet vine and bay tree
misc
again, with bolted parsely on left
new is beans in front, otherwise, lemon, strawberries, rhubarb
as above plus succulent, thyme, tomato and parsley gone to seed off frame
onions
tomato
"perpetual spinach chard" and chard
epazote and chard
rear strawberry box
still blooming iris
front bed transplanted spinach chard and chards
front bed survivor kale, transplanted when muture and then cut down to 2"
rear bed portuguese kale
rear bed dinosaur kale
a ribes cutting and gerbara daisies
a perpetual spinach chard and a dud
north ribes
plum
apple
front rosemary bush
salvia clevelandia
chives and remains of bloomed out poppies
sticky monkey flower
mexican sage
bunch gras, salvia, geranium
lavender
lambs' ear, succulent
buddleia
roses
escalonia - now pruned to fence line
ceanothus, all bloomed out
volunteer rose
fuschia near esaclonia
fuschia near barberry
bottlebrush
barberry
regrown celery gone to seed
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