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Eight months later: Native plant project 6

Kazu Nozue / 2019-06-10

Milkweed is one of California native plants. This spring milkweed plants returned in my backyard exactly at the same location (Fig.1), suggesting they are perennials. Milkweed plants are very important because they are the only food for precious migrating butterfly, Monarch butterfly (please read an …

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Seven months later: Native plant garden project 5

Kazu Nozue / 2019-05-10

After blooming, lupine have lots of been-like seed pods (Fig. 1). […] Fig. 2. Clarkia williamsonii blooming […] Among Clarkia unguiculata plants, Clarkia williamsonii started blooming (Fig. 2) . One of closely related species, Clarkia amoena, is called farewell to spring. So as it is …

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Seven months later: Native plant garden project4

Kazu Nozue / 2019-05-07

Clarkia unguiculata blooming […] Fig.2. Close up […] As I posted in January, I have lots of Clarkia unguiculata plants, which start blooming the last week in April. Although it seems become early dry season, plants in my yards are still green.

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Six months later: Native plant garden project 3

Kazu Nozue / 2019-04-17

April 2019 lunine blooming […] Native plants have been growing and growing in my yards. In this early spring, lots of lupine plants have been bloomed. As I reported in Jan 16, 2019, our yards have lupine plants from native plant seeds mix. Surprisingly lots of lupine plants grew bigger and …

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Needs more cargo space in electric vehicles!

Kazu Nozue / 2019-03-30

Electric vehicle (EV) became popular in California. Recently I can find more than one Tesla car during my daily commute. There are a couple of advantages of EV compared with gas powered vehicles; (1) higher cost efficiency (higher MPGe1), (2) lower maintainance cost, and (3) tax incentives and …

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Three months later: Native plant garden project2

Kazu Nozue / 2019-01-16

As I posted in last fall, I started watering early November 2018 and late rainy season has started after the tragic wild fire (“Butte Camp Fire”). On January 2019 I’ve noticed a couple of unfamiliar plants in my yards (Fig. 1), which should be one of native plants in California …