Hanno's Garden

We have six Blue Beaked Yucca trees (Yucca rostrata). There are six panicles between two trees this year. The last time these trees bloomed was in 2023. If you’ve ever been on the Cars ride at California Disney, you can see several of these trees along the exit path.

This year we are growing tomatoes, strawberries (‘Everbearing’ and ‘Surecrop’), Walla Walla onions, pumpkins, beans (climbing and bush), Marionberry, rhubarb, peppers (Anaheim and Poblano) and herbs. I will add carrots, ‘Bright Lights’ chard and beets to our garden, shortly. I kind of gave up on vegetable gardening for the past few years because we have …

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I picked up five quarts of these California native plants in July of last year from Mad River Gardens Nursery in Eureka, CA. They made it through the winter AOK and are filling in nicely. There are lots of different colors of penstemon – I’m planning on picking up a variety of colors from another …

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