Archive for the 'Garden' Category

Scentless

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Stray question for the western gardeners in the crowd

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Exhortation

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Zeke’s narcissus

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Flytrap

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Bishop pine

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Rain; sense to withdraw therefrom; insufficiency thereof; example

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Daphne

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Ribes

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, February 1st, 2008

Pruning

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, January 6th, 2008

On success and envy

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, January 5th, 2008

A passing noted

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, January 4th, 2008

1/1

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Asclepias

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, October 21st, 2007

While the land waits for rain

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Torturing myself

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, July 13th, 2007

Time

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, July 13th, 2007

Finally someone notices

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, June 4th, 2007

Tylecodon pearsonii

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, May 24th, 2007

More downright torturous teasing for Spyder

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, May 4th, 2007

Papaver somniferum

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, May 4th, 2007

Rosa “Lyda Rose”

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Carduelis psaltria

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, April 21st, 2007

The forget-me-nots are starting to bloom

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, April 19th, 2007

Chile de arbol

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Fire

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, April 9th, 2007

Out front this morning

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, April 7th, 2007

By popular demand

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Herbs

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, April 5th, 2007

As the Joshua tree book gets ever more complicated

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Today’s natural history observations

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 29th, 2007

A woman after my own heart

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Off the feeder

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Beet

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Carnage

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, March 23rd, 2007

White spider on Ceanothus

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, March 18th, 2007

A good year for Ceanothus

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, March 18th, 2007

Roots sunk into my heart

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Shit

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Drosera capensis

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Some names are just too common

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Calibanus and nolina

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

February weeds

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Compost turning

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, December 24th, 2006

Agave leaf

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

Agaves

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, December 18th, 2006

A landscape of holes where things once were

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Mystery beetle

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, October 9th, 2006

Comparative vertebrate behavior

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Zinfandel

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, September 17th, 2006

Chenopodiaceae

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, September 14th, 2006

What I did yesterday

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Concrete and abstract

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, July 17th, 2006

Nolina microcarpa

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

Thomomys bottae

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Weeds

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, May 7th, 2006

Now blooming out front

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, April 30th, 2006

Wrong answers in Genesis

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, April 8th, 2006

Horizons

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

On the porch right now

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, April 1st, 2006

Chlorogalum

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Out front

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, March 10th, 2006

Chollas

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, March 10th, 2006

Today’s hike

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, January 16th, 2006

Thursday

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, January 15th, 2006

The Irascible Gardener e-book

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, January 6th, 2006

Corn

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, December 16th, 2005

Berkeley

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Pears

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

Courtesy note and e-book update

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

What’s owed to those who have gone before

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, September 18th, 2005

Luna llena

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, August 21st, 2005

Working in the garden

Posted by: Stephanie on Friday, July 29th, 2005

Remember that old saw

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

Housekeeping

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Friday terrestrial crustacean blogging!

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, July 22nd, 2005

Every bit as unsubtle, but now with 90 percent less vitriol

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, July 16th, 2005

The Real Dirt on Farmer John

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

A pointer

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, June 25th, 2005

Blue’s clueless

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, June 25th, 2005

Echinacea

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

Doubt

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

Advanced wildlife photography

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, June 12th, 2005

Sophie and Liam

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, May 30th, 2005

Wabi-sabi

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Out in the backyard

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

It’s May already!

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, May 9th, 2005

Blog entry #500

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, May 8th, 2005

Tomales Point

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, May 2nd, 2005

Zigadenus fremontii

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, April 16th, 2005

This morning in the garden

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, April 9th, 2005

Snail sex

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

The front yard

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, April 1st, 2005

Iris douglasiana

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, March 19th, 2005

Aneides lugubris

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, March 12th, 2005

Bad news comes in large doses

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, March 4th, 2005

Coprinus

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

A legacy of sorts

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, February 13th, 2005

Cathartes aura

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, January 2nd, 2005

Hens and chicks

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, December 6th, 2004

Ten photos

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, December 1st, 2004

Pollarding

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, November 28th, 2004

Demonic fluffy bunny

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, November 19th, 2004

Out in the rain

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004

Scale

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, September 29th, 2004

Star jasmine

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 30th, 2004

Moment

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, July 16th, 2004

Content

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, June 15th, 2004

Gray morning

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, May 21st, 2004

Sigh of relief

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, May 18th, 2004

Mobs

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, May 14th, 2004

Giant metal corvids

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, April 26th, 2004

This morning

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, April 24th, 2004

Quiet

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, April 21st, 2004

Fraternizing

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, April 8th, 2004

The end

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 25th, 2004

Magnolia stellata at dawn in howling rainstorm

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

Narcissus bud

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, February 21st, 2004

Ribes sanguineum glutinosum

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, February 21st, 2004

Plum blossoms

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, February 19th, 2004

Weeds

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, February 14th, 2004

Sentences

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, January 25th, 2004

Thanks, Annie

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, January 23rd, 2004

Miner’s lettuce

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, January 22nd, 2004

Dillard’s cat

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, January 12th, 2004

Branta canadensis

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, December 28th, 2003

Salad

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, December 20th, 2003

Stars

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, November 22nd, 2003

More happy fun thoughts on despair

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, November 19th, 2003

Grasses

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003

Up Sobrante Ridge

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, October 21st, 2003

Mantis religiosa

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, October 20th, 2003

Artemisia tridentata

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, October 16th, 2003

Snake

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, October 12th, 2003

We have stabilimentum

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, August 22nd, 2003

Delinquents

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, August 13th, 2003

Argiope trifasciata

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, August 13th, 2003

Metal

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, August 10th, 2003

Trees

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 4th, 2003

Leptocoris trivittatus

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, July 31st, 2003

Cool, clear water

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, July 28th, 2003

::crickets::

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, July 19th, 2003

Out of its element

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, July 17th, 2003

Soil

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, July 14th, 2003

Pronounced “tool ease”

Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, July 3rd, 2003