Garden Activities August 26, 2025
- Conejo Valley Botanic Garden
- 1 day ago
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This will be a short update as we (Dale Harshberger, Beverly Kemmerling, Katie Shank, Daryl Stutley, Nancy Taylor Walker, Marna Wensil, Anna Wiktor-Becker and myself) worked mainly in the new part of the sage garden. There were two main activities: 1) to deadhead those sages that needed it, and 2) to trim back the bees bliss sages that were growing over and through some of their neighbors and/or spilling out over the edges of the paths. The good news is they are very happy, and because they are a ground cover, tend to spread. See below:
Because some of the sages looked dry, we tested the irrigation system, which one of the volunteers who shall remain anonymous (but whose initials are KS) channeled their inner child and ran through the sprinklers. It was a hot day!
When i saw the scheduled time was that night, I turned it off again and logged out of the system knowing the garden would soon get irrigated automatically.
On the uphill path, Daryl noticed that one of the sprinkler heads was actually in the path, so we rearranged the stone border to slightly reroute the path around it rather than over it (to avoid a tripping hazard or damage to the head).
Bill Dobner was also on site watering the In-ground plants in the service area and tending to the compost.
Though the CA natives are mostly in their dormant phase, plants from other Mediterranean climate zones are now blooming:
Cactus (not sure of name) from somewhere south of the border in the Americas. Though most cacti bloom in spring to early summer, some species can bloom in other seasons of the year and some can bloom or bloom again when the environmental conditions are right: day length, water availability, temperature e.g..
Many thanks to Jim Cyr, Beverly, and Nancy for their images.
Enjoy the garden! KMM
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