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.
June 2018 is here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/27/1775541/-The-Daily-Bucket-June-2018-Yard-Report
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 July 14, 2018
south from the back door
zoom to roses
false hedge
pineapple sage isn't blooming
santa barbara daisies seeking to expand
naranjas, of course
"perpetual spinach chard" stashed under orange tree
I'm not sure, also under orange tree
runaway ribes
blackberry
blackberries
mostly milkweed, amaryllises are done
hanging onions and grape
onion flower
this one still hasn't started to bulb, world's largest green onion
grapevine chaos
some mini-grapes
more
yet another
bunchgrass in wild creeping strawberry, then white sage then pineapple sage
zoomed
unknown volunteer behing redbud
#1 fushia aka "claude"
transplanted succulent, transplanted ribes
strawberry guava
coffeeberry peeking through
north from back door
lavender
lemon tree, beans with basil, succulent, rhubarb, thyme, rhubarb, tomatoes
basil in front of green beans
misc leading up to bay tree
hydrangeas, ferns, fushia, trumpet vine
trashcan rhubarb, was punky, then transplanted into trashcan for greater root depth and has gone to town ever since.
either romas or san marzanos, some now finally turning red.
experimental potted & staked zuke
poppies are suddenly resurgent
just harvested onions "hardening"
more spinach chard, probably cramped
oft transplanted overwintered chard
island mallow
3 chrd transplants and one spinach chard
kale regrows
lemons
another staked zuke
bolted portuguese kale and dinosaur kale
strawberries
strawberry
north ribes
misc
pear (it's dropping a lot of pears, we don't know why)
apple it too is raining fruit, but it often does
rosemary and barberry, edge of camillia
salvia clevelandia (blooming) and white sage
garlic chives
mexican sage
buddleia
lamb's ear, succulents
a salvia
ceanothus
roses
escalonia fradesii behind ceanothus
hidden fushia
front fushia
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