I recently volunteered to replace my garden club’s web site and asked members to send in photos.
Slide Show page on the new Lakeside Garden Club site
Marilyn McFadden of McFadden Ranch sent in lots of wonderful professional shots with expert commentary specific to our part of Southern California, so I made many slideshows and used her plumeria photo as the site header. I am learning alot from doing this!
My neighbors’ macademia nut trees are laden with more nuts than they can use so I googled and found this great Utube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNAtcbz1_N0
Here is the summary of what I learned from all the articles I googled:
One thing I truly love about our garden in our new home in the San Diego area (Lakeside) is all the magnificent mature fruit trees
. Fresh figs are my favorite.
Our fig tree pictured on the right must be at least 60 feet tall. See its size compared to my car on the far bottom left.
I had too many figs in the first crop this year and there is an enormous second crop on the tree so I googled around for how to dry figs and decided I liked this link the best: