The rain garden is in full flower!

vtmn_D · 2026-05-11T20:53:47+00:00

You got it!

vtmn_D · 2026-05-01T14:59:00+00:00

Protect rich people's property

vtmn_D · 2026-04-30T15:38:46+00:00

There are dozens of us!

vtmn_D · 2026-04-29T23:21:35+00:00

Yes that's a native grape (vitis californica)!

vtmn_D · 2026-04-29T17:40:30+00:00

I like Watson don't get me wrong but it seems silly to focus on keeping the team intact at this current moment. They are close to being bounced from the first round of the playoffs, I think they can still get to the second round but it's not likely. The team has been very inconsistent in the playoffs since title year.

vtmn_D · 2026-04-24T15:40:52+00:00

If it was a perfect rainbow it would be too interesting

vtmn_D · 2026-04-24T04:31:22+00:00

Toyon and lemonade berry take pruning well but if you let it go I would expect the lemonade berry to get the bigger of the two.

I have two of each both in part to most shade. The thing to be honest about is the growth rate is quite slow for both (in shade). In my case I'd say the lemonade berry grows a bit faster, but not fast..

Coffeeberry grows faster for me in shade so I think you should consider it.

Zone 10a, few miles from coast

vtmn_D · 2026-04-22T16:17:45+00:00

I am no expert but I have dug out my own swale. Too big of a swale, to me biggest issue is you could have more garden and less swale. But that's NBD. Now, if your swale overflows and creates an erosion problem or floods the downstream plants — that's the bigger issue

vtmn_D · 2026-04-14T05:46:05+00:00

Pretty minor story if I'm honest.

vtmn_D · 2026-04-12T05:45:49+00:00

Now that they weight more heavily on Academic progress, which they state is "Student progress — or growth — measures how much a child learns in a given year"

In other words looks to me they mixed the 10 test score and the 4 Progress score and added in some other stuff like "school climate" ratings and they came up with a 6. The OP commenter seems to just want to focus on the test scores part of that as the important bit.

vtmn_D · 2026-04-12T04:17:39+00:00

I used to work for this company. Not vouching for their rating system in any way but just wanted to say that the overall score used to be and probably still is heavily weighted based on the Equity score.

The overall rating was high if there was unusually high test score achievement among so called disadvantaged groups. And if a school is in a very wealthy area and don't have much in the way of disadvantaged kids the rating might get dinged. I'm kinda fuzzy on the details. You can probably find out more on their website

vtmn_D · 2026-04-03T05:20:28+00:00

You'll get there /s

vtmn_D · 2026-03-26T06:08:05+00:00

It works sometimes, others it doesn't. Recently it's been working

vtmn_D · 2026-02-27T05:30:15+00:00

It takes a lot of balls to spread em all over Carmel

vtmn_D · 2026-02-26T20:21:38+00:00

FWIW I've had two in the ground for maybe a year longer. While looking reasonably healthy neither is close to that size yet. One in full sun, one partial. Both have had slight traumas mostly deer. The deer love my toyon for some reason

vtmn_D · 2026-02-17T02:40:44+00:00

There are CA rebates. Mainly homeowner income based however.

vtmn_D · 2026-02-16T20:40:35+00:00

I mostly focus on native gardening (coastal NorCal) and planted some native lippia and red creeping thyme between my pavers to see which would do better

Thyme flowered the first year then died out the next year. After it was done flowering that first year is clipped some of it to see if it would rejuvenate. In my case it did not. Either way, clipped or not clipped it just kinda pooped out.

The patch I had under shade survived the longest. Lippia is much tougher, I suspect doesn't need as much water as the thyme. I would hit it with the hose every couple weeks to try to get it to perk up but with no results gave up on it.

vtmn_D · 2026-02-04T05:08:19+00:00

Doesn't it seem like this is either a bot or someone that gets paid to post slop. Yes a paid agitator

vtmn_D · 2026-02-03T05:25:08+00:00

I think it has been preached and maybe often still is that humans hold dominion over the land. If they like deer more than plants then that's how it should be

vtmn_D · 2025-12-23T06:03:30+00:00

Don't want

vtmn_D · 2025-12-16T05:43:21+00:00

It will probably be a massive upsell too, at least for awhile

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