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.
March 2019 - https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/25/1843799/-The-Daily-Bucket-March-2019-Yard-Report
Februry 2019 - https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/28/1838201/-The-Daily-Bucket-February-2019-Yard-Report?
January 2019 - https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/17/1826599/-The-Daily-Bucket-January-2019-Yard-Report
December 2018 is here https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/12/30/1822353/-The-Daily-Bucket-December-2018-Yard-Report -
it will list all of the rest of 2018 + December 2017, etc.
This month I am going somewhat by exception, only things that re blooming, significantly changed or otherwise of interest.
As of April 8, 2019
Looking south from backdoor, geraniums, pineapple sage, and rose are blooming
Santa Barbara Daisies getting serious
pineapple sage
naranjas
some kale under the orange for water and shade
spinach chard under the orange tree
kale cuttings under the orange tree
ribes
Hanging baskets
bunchgrass
culinary sage
volunteer ribes behind redbud
redbud
Calla lillies (typical)
ribes start + succulent
green onion regrow
a succulent buried in volunteer poppies
succulent flower detail
another ribes cutting
apricot 1
Apricot 2
guave
guava, coffeeberry, apricot
camillia and bay tree, misc foreground
beets, mostly leaves, gave to worms
rhubarb, already had several deserts out of these two
volunteer poppies grow like weeds
"perpetual spinach chard" (left) and red.swiss chard (right) just harvested a little for dinner
rear bed, kale and Portuguese Kale
rear bed showing hi-rise kale that has blossomed, it keeps doing that no matter how many buds I pick
new rosemary mulched with weeds
pear
apple
front rosemary and camillia
an oddball geranium
redbud
sage
garlic chives behind poppies
sticky monkey flower
mexican sage
front: salvia + geraniums
succulent
more salvias
ceanothus
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Now It's Your Turn
What have you noted happening in your area or travels? As usual post your observations as well as their general location in the comments.
Thank you.
I won’t be here when this posts, another damn vacation.