Calamondin

Quick post on the citrus tree in the garden. It isn't a kumquat, they have a sweet skin and sour fruit. It's a calamondin, which are apparently fairly common in the Philippines, sour skin, sour fruit. If you eat them for the vitamin C rather than expecting a sweet treat they are quite nice! Here are a few online links, Purdue Horticulture, wikipedia.

good TED radio hour on food

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Monarch caterpillars

Frank has a monarch way station with some milk weed plants, and some happy caterpillars!

 where's waldo?

 open cocoon

 sequence of 3, notice the leaf disappearing!

newly hatched monarch via Frank

Garden 10 April 2016 by Gigi Kinnaman

Garden board member Frank gave his daughter, Gigi, his Olympus and she took some great photos yesterday during the workday. She even got a decent pic of me, a rare thing indeed. Full album here

Lizzy

coastal poppies

Alex, great new gardener

Calendula, i think

yours truly, amazingly shirt not too dirty

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electric chard

come to a workday and sometimes you get free veggies!

Garden Flowers, 29 Feb 2016

 almond

 crocosmia

 coastal poppy

 peach

what's a garden post without a pic of Lizzy?

Garden, 9 Jan 2016

 asian pear

the power of a garden hose