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		<title>a local ceanothus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ceanothus season is here in force. One of the local stars is a species with the unfortunate common name of &#8220;warty-stem ceanothus.&#8221; Neither is its Latin name of Ceanothus verrucosus especially glamorous. But hopefully you can see how cool a plant it is in these&#160;photos.


If my weekday desk had a window I&#8217;d look out on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2010/03/07/a-local-ceanothus/</link>
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		<title>the prodigal ceanothus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The origin of Ceanothus &#8216;Tuxedo&#8217; reads a bit like a horticultural soap opera: A California native species, Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, crosses the Atlantic for Europe, where it meets up with another ceanothus, this one from the East Coast of the US, Ceanothus americanus, or New Jersey tea. Loose on foreign soil the two get romantically involved, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2010/03/04/the-prodigal-ceanothus/</link>
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		<title>after the rain delay</title>
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The rain last weekend cleared out long enough for us to install the shade panel we&#8217;d&#160;constructed.
The fence you see faces north by northwest. Anything growing in the bed is in total shade for several months. About this time of year, though, the sun swings north, and things start to get sun exposure in the later [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2010/02/28/after-the-rain-delay/</link>
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		<title>rain delay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s almost never too rainy to garden, and of course it&#8217;s never too wet to blog. But some outdoor projects have had to be put on hold&#160;temporarily.
Yesterday, when it was still dry, we started to construct a shade panel to begin to replace a patio cover we tore down last fall. Many of the plants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2010/02/20/rain-delay/</link>
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		<title>from leaf to mulch</title>
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For my first attempt at participating in Pam at Digging&#8217;s Foliage Follow-up Day I looked under the grapefruit tree for inspiration. As the leaves fall from the tree they go from green to brown to gray before they finally become part of the compost that enriches the top of the soil. That last stage produces [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2010/02/16/from-leaf-to-mulch/</link>
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		<title>plants as compass (february bloom day)</title>
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I was looking at my blooming Agave attenuata and noticed something for the first time. The flowers on its spike have been opening asymmetrically, with the south-facing buds opening a few days earlier than the ones on the shaded side. I guess it&#8217;s the agave equivalent of moss growing on the shaded north side of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2010/02/14/plants-as-compass-february-bloom-day/</link>
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		<title>plants falling asleep</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of the flowering plants in the garden don&#8217;t bother opening their petals until the sun&#8217;s up and then shut their flowers as soon as the light begins to fade and temperatures drop in the afternoon. Over the weekend I was noticing this going on with my oxalis plants and, less dramatically, with my&#160;arctotis.
There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2010/02/08/plants-that-sleep-at-night/</link>
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		<title>our gardens after we&#8217;re gone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder what your garden would look like if the human caretakers just&#160;vanished?
Maybe I&#8217;ve been inspired by all the disaster flicks like 2012 or the History Channel&#8217;s Life After People series. But envisioning gardens after gardeners is an interesting intellectual exercise that might help us answer that pesky question: What is a&#160;garden?
Would all the invasive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2010/02/02/our-gardens-after-were-gone/</link>
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		<title>vinyl resting place</title>
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I realize that I&#8217;m dating myself when I reveal this, a long shelf of vinyl LPs, one of several in the house. I never listen to them, but I don&#8217;t know what to do with them. There&#8217;s a lot of common trash in the collection&#8212;Does the world need to preserve the billionth pressing of an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2010/01/30/vinyl-resting-place/</link>
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		<title>into the wild</title>
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On my last little outing to my city&#8217;s largest open-space park, before the recent rains, while I wasn&#8217;t busy looking at sycamores, I was heading up the trail to Fortuna Peak, one of the highest point in the city limits. At 1291 feet in elevation and with good trails all the way, it&#8217;s no serious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2010/01/25/into-the-wild-2/</link>
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