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LOS ANGELES IS NOT A DESERT


"Hey Eleven! California Poppies... ever hear of them?!"
When I sat down to eagerly watch Season 4 of Stranger Things, I was not planning on thinking about California Native Plants. But only a...
amanda smith
Jun 10, 20223 min read
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Keep Pacheco Wild!
I was approached by Stop The Pacheco Dam Project to design a sticker and t-shirt for their work to "Keep Pacheco Wild" and stop the...
amanda smith
Apr 27, 20221 min read
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Throwing Shade... In The Garden
Actually I have no shade to throw... But did you know there are plants that can grown in almost full shade? I did not before starting my...
amanda smith
Apr 25, 20223 min read
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Interview with Roger Gray: Master Gardner and California Naturalist
In Spring of 2021 I took a class to become a certified California Naturalist. The class I took, known as CalNat for short, is, "A...
amanda smith
Apr 23, 202210 min read
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Planting, Propagating, and Gathering Oh My!
In spring on 2021 I took a class, the UC California Naturalist Program (CalNat), to get certified as a California Naturalist. Part of the...
amanda smith
Feb 23, 20224 min read
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Butterflies and Whales: Walking The Bluffs Of A Crashed Channel Island
Every winter, while ten million humans go about their daily lives on land, another sort of business is happening in the water just off...
amanda smith
Feb 22, 20223 min read
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Small Flowers, Big City: Growing (Mostly) Native Plants In My Tiny Rented Patch Of Land
First was a vegetable garden, then just herbs and drought tolerant plants, then the shift to thinking maybe I could help out critters...
amanda smith
Jan 29, 20222 min read
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