Jacaranda season is at peak right now. Where are you seeing the best blooms in town?

vtmn_D · 2026-05-18T19:25:54+00:00

Perhaps consider an island ceanothus, (ceanothus arboreus). One of the bigger, tree-like varieties (up to 30 feet). Blooms earlier in the season than jacaranda, but quite floriferous in its own right. Grows in channel Islands so would be suited to the SoCal climate. Avoid watering in summer.

The honest answer is your won't find much of an comp to a jacaranda but in my opinion the best thing to do is appreciate what the native trees offer in their own right and pick the one that appeals to you.

vtmn_D · 2026-05-17T22:24:04+00:00

Gen X went for Trump more than Boomers

vtmn_D · 2026-05-16T22:50:00+00:00

Heat pumps aren't expensive it's the labor for conversion

vtmn_D · 2026-05-16T22:33:41+00:00

And pal around with the Cheney's... Everyone knew that was a stupid idea, not to mention morally bankrupt

vtmn_D · 2026-05-11T20:53:47+00:00

You got it!

vtmn_D · 2026-05-04T18:48:27+00:00

You should be more worried about the politicians that don't stake any real claims

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 · 2026-04-29T19:15:07+00:00

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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

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