The Calif poppies are coming in strong as seedlings from my October planting, new from existing plants, and reseeds from previous years. What's interesting is where they are coming up without me having seeded that place.
The pods, when sufficiently dry, basically explode and shoot a spray of seeds with the the merest touch. The wind could do it if the pod touches anything. I'm impressed to see poppies coming up several feet from where they were actually growing. Nature's little catapults!
My native seeds are sprouting everywhere I planted in October and loads have reseeded from previous years. Along the driveway, I shoveled up all the mulch that formed on the pavement and moved that to actual dirt because I knew it was full of seeds from last spring and summer and there are sprouts in those areas too!
I'm strategizing for the coming spring when deer come to eat the tops off all the Clarkia that's about to bloom. I'm not sure how or even if to discourage them. I do have new area of grasses planted. Maybe they'll get distracted?
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This winter, I'm directing "Native Gardens" by Mexican-American playwright Karen Zacarías. It's a comedy about two couples (one older and white, the other younger and Latin) and how they turn almost to war when they have an urgent disagreement over the property line. They are divided by race, age, politics, and (most of all) philosophy of gardening.
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