I was examining that big Kalanchoe earlier today and still unable to decide whether I like the way it looks or not. I am impressed by it. It's unusual in cultivation--it is not one of the furry-leaved ones. I'll get the variety somehow...

What else. Jero called my spiny citrus tree "wild orange" and we saw that it did seem to be coming from old rootstock and that a former central trunk had died a long time ago. I will have to look this up, too.

Seedlings sprouted in the pool! But nothing came of them...

We still haven't seen any fruiting bodies on the gourd/squash thing...but lots of small yellow blossoms. Jero expects cucumbers and I don't see why not. On a related note the gourd seeds are germinating as we speak. I used peat things in which three kids of lavender had failed to germinate. Well, have you ever know it to self sow?

I love self-sowers...I have had good luck with Love-in-a-Mist, them yellow and black daisy things that ain't Rudbeckia and ain't coreopsis nor sunflowers...fuzzy elongated rounded-end leaves? Crap. Anyway, Wistaria all over the place. Mimosa tree. Sorry, tired and cannot recall specific names. That crap that must be Tradescantia and has the wee blue flowers with yellow centers? Some calls it a weed, some don't. I do and don't. It sure is a weed if you don't want it, but if you want it you'll never lack it!

Well what about tall yellow Oxalis? WEED I say even though I love the plant. I just cannot see growing it given how I (stupidly) struggled with it in Santa Monica. But it sure has tasty stems. We Mission Hills kids called it sour grass and half-believed it was sour because "dogs peed on it." Well, dogs probably did pee on it but hey, we were kids. We drank nectar from nasturtiums and Lonicera halliana, one of my favorite plants. It's a ground cover, folks. Use it!