Under the Solano Sun

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NOTE: the editor made an error and submitted this blog under another master gardener's name. Kay Lauterbach is the author of Foxtails. It seems these days that it is hard to find something on which everyone can agree. But I may have just found it foxtails. I hate them.

Several ideas passed by me on the way to this blog: comments about the weather lately; comments on a blog that I read on the Garden Professors an excellent blog written by various experts in horticulture; or, just complaining about the wind here in Suisun City and my about-to-bloom peony.

I know as gardeners we sometimes make great discoveries by accident, that solves long standing problems. My discovery came when a large rosemary bush growing in my yard died because of the freezing days this past winter. I cut it down but stopped short of throwing it in the green waste bin.

For the past four years I've grown almost every kind of vegetable I thought I'd like to eat, multiple varieties of each. Somehow this rampant experimentation has not extended to flowers.