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Castro Valley, near Oakland, CA; approx 37.7N by 122W, 400 feet.
This is part of my ongoing project to document the changes in our yard from month to month.
October 2017 is here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/30/1710449/-The-Daily-Bucket-October-2017-Yard-Report
September 2017 is here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/26/1700246/-The-Daily-Bucket-September-2017-Yard-Report
August 2017 is here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/30/1693832/-The-Daily-Bucket-August-2017-Yard-Report
July 2017 is here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/28/1684722/-The-Daily-Bucket-July-2017-Yard-Report
June 2017 is here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/23/1673196/-The-Daily-Bucket-June-2017-Yard-Report
May 2017 is here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/16/1661890/-The-Daily-Bucket-May-2017-Yard-Report
April 2017 is here:http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/04/11/1650881/-The-Daily-Bucket-April-ish-Yard-Report
March 2017 is Here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/03/13/1642539/-The-Daily-Bucket-March-Yard-Report
February 2017 is Here:http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/15/1632790/-The-Daily-Bucket-February-Yard-Report
The January 2017 yard report is Here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/21/1622018/-The-Daily-Bucket-January-Yard-Report
Previous versions are listed near the top of the December 2016 report:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/12/29/1615231/-The-Daily-Bucket-December-Yard-Report
This is as of the 24th. I forgot to shoot the apple up close - there are still a lot of apples on it.
Looking south from back door, same old stuff, not much blooming. Barely visible is one pink rose bloom I noticed after this was done.
further along: pineapple sage & Cal. fuschia, both heavily pruned, orange and south ribes.
looking east down false hedge to apricot (heavily pruned) and guava (in box)
top of apricot
pineapple sage and Cal fuschia both have a few blooms, orange still fruit heavy
zoom of above
random section of orange tree
The south ribes which was pruned down to the fence top in late summer
blackberry on tomato trellis, bunchgrass in lower left corner
west from ribes: milkweed, amarillis, hanging planters with basil and grapes
east from ribes: bunchgrass, culinary sage, pineapple sage, heavily pruned fuschia to left of pineapple sage and calla lily stalk to left of that
closeup of pineapple sage
some calla lilies
the guava, apricot to its left
north from back door
hydrangeas and ferns in front of trumpet vine trellis
scheffleria and rhody
rhody, camillia and bay, which is ailing
same plus the conifer which partly shades the garden maybe a juniper
onions, napa cabbage, celery, assorted other
basil, basil + bean, romas, cherry tomatoes, behind same is basil and rainbow chard, strawberries, rhubarb, thyme, and lemon behind that
same with dead section of lemon (this is a seriously old lemon)
better view of lemon
dead portion
eapzote (gone to seed) and more onions
the mallow, pruned nearly to fence top and thinned
a mallow bud, already
rear (shady) bed, onions, oxalis and kale
long view from east
pear and apple
gerbera daisies bloomed out
northern ribes
napa cabbage at the western end of the front, sunnier, bed
strawberries being overrun by weeds
view of the shady bed from the west
area where yucca stump was removed, nothing growing yet
rosemary and camillia
sages, sedum, succulents and creeping time beneath redbud
garlic chives with seed heads
bunchgrasses, sages, geranium, mini palm and succulent to left of hedge
mexican sage starting to bloom seriously now, ceanothus behind, succulent to right signpost
the salvias between the mexican sage and ceanothus, starting to bloom, and the bush behind the ceanothus
barberry doing its thing
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