Gardening with Native Plant-Matilija Bob The are still some open spaces for our Gardening with Native Plants. This is an in-person class held at the Conejo Valley Adult School...
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Dividing Pacific Coast Irises- Matilija Bob 9/29/25 Pacific coast irises have their own quickness. If you want to divide them to have more of the same iris you...
A California Native is Actually Two Gardens by Matilija Bob, 9/21/25 In California most of our native plants flower from late winter into maybe early summer. Beautiful flowering scenery...
Collecting Seeds from our pacific coast iris hybrids. This is the time of year when the seeds from our pacific coast irises are ready for harvest. We collect the...
My new science experiment. Many of our California should be able to grow nicely indoors, especially our shade plants. I would think if they got indirect light and watered...
This is the time of year our pacific coast irises go into bloom. The early bloomers begin in early March and the bloom season lasts through very early June....
Every once in a while we have a new plant that the bees and other wild things create. When they appear exceptional and different from the “rest” we try...
The Fire and Back to Normal- Compared to so many others we got off “easy” from the Mountain Fire. While we’ll have some losses mostly from the winds and...
Some Plants Are Dormant…and they should be planted now! Matilija Bob 10/27/24-Featured picture Asclepias speciosa and Lilium parvum. Even though there is no green showing ….they are just dormant...
Some prices will be going up November 1st…. We’ll be raising some retail prices beginning November 1st. The majority of our 1-gallon native plants we sell for $8 and...