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warriors from Tacoma more rockin' out (photos courtesy of Shannon Corr) Washington state is still kicking out the gem jams — I was wowed by Christian Mistress a couple weeks ago across the Bay at Eli’s Mile High Club, and now am looking forward to tomorrow night’s show at the Hemlock with [...]  This should really be posted on Dirty Girl Gardening. But gotta say, I had no idea the millions of ceramic gnomes populating gardens throughout the world are associated with the lineage of Priapus (at least, according to some unidentified scholars, as told on several other websites). This is the deity for whom the infamous [...] Magnolia campbellii — the natural source for teenage Wet 'n' Wild lipgloss? Have you noticed some flower petals aren’t merely bright or saturated with color, but are iridescent? Pulsating with light, infinite botanical discoballs, shimmering velvet lushness, or as my friend and fellow docent Anna calls the phenomenon, diamond dust. Such petals [...] During the first weekend of March, I headed down to Anza-Borrego, California’s largest state park. Lying about 950 feet above sea level, between San Diego and the Peninsular Ranges to the west and the Salton Sea to the east, Anza-Borrego is part of the Colorado Desert and is the Golden State’s portion of the [...] With a scientific name like that, how can a metalhead not love the goldback fern? Pentagramma triangularis.
This dainty yet tough little plant was once dubbed Pityrogramma triangularis, but some taxonomist was obviously into the occult or mid-70s doom bands (or both) and rightly changed [...] “Oh my god! Oh my god! No way! It’s RIGHT HERE! Holy sheeeeettttt!” Was I not a witch? Not to overestimate manifestation powers or anything, but had I not just said, barely 15 seconds before, that I was bummed because after three days in Anza-Borrego State Park I’d failed to encounter a plant [...] Fuchsia "Rose of Castile" from a garden in the Haight There are two cool new online resources for plant geeks. The first is The Plant List: a working compendium of all the known plant species growing in the known universe. Wow. This means 1,040,426 species are recorded in one place, representing 620 plant [...] master of reality I almost just died a little. Not only is the Pacific Orchid Expo this weekend at the Fort Mason Center, but the Red Vic — my favorite one-room, cooperatively run neighborhood movie house which is about to go under despite over 25 years running — is hosting the Found Footage [...] |
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