CA Native Plants Project Log

Greetings. Today's report is a bit sad, but will get happier at the end. Thinking about my asters makes me feel absolutely miserable. There will probably not be a lot of growth rates for this week, because a lot of my asters have shrunk. I know. I got too comfortable relying on the rainy weather to do the watering for me. Recently the rain has stopped. The asters are pretty dry, so I think that must be why they got smaller. They are crispier than a Pringles chip. Okay, maybe that was an exaggeration and maybe I'm a bit hungry, but you get the deal. Actually, it was just a couple brown leaves on a few of the plants. Still, not a good thing to see on your 3rd week of plant-sitting. Overall they looked okay, although keep in mind the photos I took of the asters are focusing on the bad leaves, so looks worse than it actually is. I'M STILL VERY SAD THOUGH. (ToT) that's a crying face. so you know. I don't have many photos today. And I'm not spoiling the good news that

A mysterious little gardening joke I found to start the post today: Someone has been adding soil to my garden. The plot thickens. Pretty good, eh? Eh?  I know last Sunday I was considering posting on Wednesdays too. But I didn't have any thyme (time) to :D. So I think I've settled on checking up on them almost every day, maybe taking note of anything interesting happening, but only posting on Sundays. Also, it's been raining so much. I kept thinking, "Thistle be such a pain to do outside." Teehee. I was obviously not on cloud nine. Hah. Weather pun. That was funny. Jokes aside, I'm here to finally write my new post. I've remeasured the plants. I should have expected it considering all the rain that's been pouring down, but I was surprised to find one of the plants had grown a whole inch and a half! Maybe that isn't impressive, but I've never thought to measure my other plants before so I don't know how much they usually grow. Okay, don'

  Hey, do you have a watch, perchance? Just need to check something... yeah thanks... YEP! IT'S PLANT INTRODUCTION O'CLOCK PEOPLE! And the title is misleading by the way, I haven't named any of my plants Abithicusula Plurtonium III. Yet.. Although I do need to name them soon... By the way, I'm measuring height from the bottom of the pot to the top of the plant. Anyways I'll get into it. Aster A - 12" in height. Leaves are slightly bent and damaged because these were recently transplanted.   Aster B - 11"  Much floppier than Aster A so we'll see if I can get it back up!   Aster C - 9.25" This one actually is kind of smaller than the others.  Aster D - 13" This one is very pretty and I took a photo of the fertilizer in its soil. I got too curious and popped one of the yellow ones, which had liquid inside. Aster E - 13"  I thought this one also looked pretty healthy, and took a photo of one of its leaves. Finally, we can move on to

So, I'm going to try to catch up with these posts now. I've got one more to write after this one, and it takes me from 10-10000 minutes to write these. The goal is to finish both by the end of today. I have maybe 6 or 7 hours of school, and probably homework to do after, but luckily no extracurriculars today. So therefore, it's crunch time, dudes. Let's get on with the story. I am waiting eagerly at home for the mysterious woman to arrive with the gorgeous plant babies. I was picturing either a mother having her mid-life crisis to save us all with plants or a retired lady who doesn't care about dying her hair and gives her plants names. Honestly kind of glad it was the second one, although it would have been funny if it was the first...  Anyways, good ol' Mary  arrives. She's actually quite nice. She hands over this giant tray with, I believe it was 12 plants. She introduces me to each type: CA Asters, the largest of them. Yarro, most were very small, a few

Woah, hi there :O  I am documenting the progress of my school project in this blog.  So here was the outline for how this project was going to go: 1. Get seeds that are native to California and also endangered 2. Grow them in pots in my backyard 3. Document the progress 4. Finally, work with the local beach coalition to plant them around town. Surprisingly, most of it went sort of as planned. I was expecting to get the seeds myself, either from buying seeds online or from a nearby plant nursery. But as I explored the former option, I realized how difficult that was. Sure, you could find some California native plants, or  some endangered plants. But finding plants that checked off both boxes was nearly impossible. I was feeling quite hopeless at this point, but still I went on- research, research, research. Then, I get lucky. I come across the perfect opportunity. Remember that beach coalition? Well, they had an ad looking for plant-sitters. The job was taking care of their California n