Here it is, fall again, with a grey sky loosing the occasional snowflake. Inside, the woodstove is giving off a cozy warmth and there is jam bubbling on the stove. For years now, I have been growing ‘unusual’ plants. I’ve finally discovered what is needed for them to thrive and now have so much bounty…
ChiloquinNews article Jan 13th, 2014… Weather is one of those things we love to talk about. It fills in awkward gaps in conversation, and there is always something to discuss – whether it’s too hot, cold, wet, dry, humid, grey, foggy, sunny, snowy – and whether we like, hate, love whatever it might be doing…
ChiloquinNews article Sep 16th, 2013… This week Richard and I took the canoe out down the Wood River canal out to the river and then down to the new outlet to Agency Lake where we had morning tea on a lovely little beach before heading back against the current, which is now quite swift. Once…
ChiloquinNews article Sep 2nd, 2013… Sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides), also known as Sea berry, Sanddorn or Siberian pineapple, grows naturally in China, Mongolia, Russia, and most parts of Northern Europe. Ancient Greek scholars wrote that the leaves and small branches were fed to horses to make their coats shiny. The Latin name was derived from…
ChiloquinNews article July 22nd, 2013… This week I was lucky enough to get a tour of some of the fens of Jack Creek. A fen is a type of wetland that is fed by groundwater that is slowly moving through, as opposed to a bog, where the water has been captured and has nowhere…
ChiloquinNews article July 8th, 2013… Our home was built here along the Wood River Canal in 2006. At that time, the lot we started with grew mostly annual rye grass and weeds, but there were a few native plants struggling along as well. I knew I didn’t want a lawn to maintain and water, and…
ChiloquinNews article, Feb 25th, 2013… Water is everywhere yet it is often not noticed. It comes out of the faucet and disappears down a drain, yet most people could not tell you how it got to the faucet or where it went from the drain. Here in this area we are much more aware…
ChiloquinNews article, Jan 14th 2013… Ever wondered what the weather was doing somewhere else, RIGHT NOW. You can see that on the Davis Weatherlink map. To view the map go to http://www.weatherlink.com/map.php and you will see…. 1) Enter a location, e.g. Klamath Falls, click ‘go’ and you will see a close up view of that…
Getting a new hip ChiloquinNews article October 5th, 2012 I got a new hip last Tuesday morning and what I realize from having done this is that there is very little real information just about the nuts and bolts of this procedure out there for the prospective ‘hipee’. So here’s rather a long article…
This Week’s Weed – Prickly Lettuce ChiloquinNews article October 1st, 2012 I’ve saved my most dreaded weed ‘til last. Prickly Lettuce (Lactuca serriola) is commonly considered a weed of orchards, roadsides and field crops, but in fact, it will grow anywhere from dry to wet, bright sun to deep shade, in grasslands or through thick…
This Week’s Weed – Bedstraw ChiloquinNews article August 20th, 2012 Galium aparine, otherwise known as common bedstraw, goosegrass, cleavers, stickywilly and in Ireland, “Robin run the hedge”, is an annual plant of the family Rubiaceae, which is native to North America and Eurasia. It’s not the worst of the weeds we have to deal with,…
This week’s Weed – Mullein ChiloquinNews article August 6th, 2012 The mulleins, genus Verbascum are a genus of about of 250 species in the figwort family, native to Europe and Asia. In the garden Verbascums are valued for their tall flower spikes. There are a number of new hybrid cultivars that are not at all…
This week’s Weed – Cheatgrass ChiloquinNews article July 30th, 2012 Cheatgrass or drooping brome (Bromus tectorum), is a grass native to Europe, southwestern Asia and northern Africa. It has been introduced to southern Russia, west central Asia, North America, Japan, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, and Greenland. It was first found in the United…
This week’s Weed – Western Salsify ChiloquinNews article July 23rd, 2012 Tragopogon is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family that has over 140 species, including the vegetable known as salsify, and a number of common wild flowers, some of which are usually regarded as weeds. In the early 1900s, three species native…
This week’s Weed ChiloquinNews article 16th July, 2012 Bachelor’s Button or Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) Most people love this brilliant blue flower at first sight. So easy to grow, so beautiful in a vase, and so famous in gardens, it’s a flower many people really enjoy in their wild meadows. However, it is aggressive…
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