Botany is bad this week for a different reason than it was last week. It is lacking. I mean, there is none. Only common names are mentioned. The first picture, which is not mine, includes too many different species to cite. Even if I wanted to, I could not identify all of them from this picture, and I can not remember what all of them are. The other pictures conversely show only a few common species that need no introduction.

1. Brent sent this picture of a view from his primary landscape design studio west of Los Angeles. The Jungalow is obscured by overgrown vegetation on the left. More species of flora inhabit this compact garden than all the combined acreage that I work and live on.

2. Scenery from my work is very different. Redwoods are the primary species. The bland foliage to the left is tanoak. Only a few species of trees grow wild here. The scenery from my writing studio is embarrassingly less interesting, but that is a topic for another time.

3. Banana trees live at work because I like a few species that, to me, seem to be the sort of vegetation that is more common in the Los Angeles region. They got frosted at home.

4. Roses, which are in the background of the banana tree, are more popular here than in the Los Angeles region, and are actually dormant for winter. This one does not generate new canes from its base though, which is why it is now so gnarly after dormant pruning.

5. European white birch are also dormant during the slightly cooler wintry weather here. I can easily relocate feral specimens like bare root stock. Cooler weather has advantages.

6. Bay and box elder obscure this local sunset that looks like it should be in Los Angeles.

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10 thoughts on “Six on Saturday: Bad Botany II”

    1. The two pictures are about 350 miles apart. Redwood trees survive in only a few situations there, and are not very happy about it. Some of the tropical species that I bring back from there are no happier here.

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    1. Although California is not nearly as big as states or provinces there, it might be more diverse. Some outsiders think that we all live in Los Angeles. There are so many distinct climates here. Incidentally, that is why the ‘entertainment’ industry got established in Niles and then relocated to the Hollywood region. California provides so much diversity of scenery for filming.

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    1. Thank you, but the beauty is relative. I find the snow of other climates to be fascinating because I have never experienced it. All that white is rad! As much as I enjoy redwoods here and palms down south, neither seems any better than the other. We merely exploit what we got.

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      1. A great way to look at it! The snow is absolutely beautiful as it is falling and when it is pristine. My dad decided to teach me to change a tire on a snowy day when he wanted to change his tires over to snow tires and wanted some help. Working in the snow is not fun to me, but always necessary if we get more than just a few inches. If you like snow, then check out the link to the winter gardening article in my SoS for 1/6. I’m going to take the link down tomorrow, but I’ll leave it up for you to see some of my snow photos, if you have time this evening.

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      2. I like the snow in Los Angeles, . . . on top of the mountains off in the distance. Some people from out of town are surprised to see snowy mountains from where palm trees are so happy. Actually though, Los Angeles gets more snow in town than San Jose does. It is very rare, but is not quite as rare as it is in San Jose. About half an inch of snow fell in San Jose in 1976. It looked like very thick frost.

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    1. Redwoods are awesome. These are coastal redwoods, which actually grow slightly taller than the bulkier giant redwoods of the Sierra Nevada. I likely mentioned that my shower at home was inside a relatively small burned out trunk of a redwood.

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