California Native Drought Tolerant Plants for Laguna Zone 9B

Fall Color With no watering necessary
manzanita   chapparal current
       catalina island cherry

western red bud  
sea lavendar                
I plan to replace my grass with a low growing flowering meadow. There are several commercial seed mixes available but I want to combine three or four varieties of clover (red pink and white). The clover will supply nitrogen and having different varieties will allow them to survive all year round. I am considering adding dwarf yarrow, baby blue eyes (very popular in England but might not fair well in full sun) and either corsican mint or globe
globe gilia might be too tall.
baby blue eyes --- nemophilia-menziesii
I want to find red, purple and white clover as the nitrogen fixing base for the new lawn carpet .I shopped on line and found some wholesale sites but need more research
Please see my “before photos and general plan:
http://www.johnnyseeds.com/c-212-legumes-grasses.aspx?pagesize=15&list=1&pagenum=2
http://larnerseeds.com/_pages/sales.html
http://www.wildflower.org/suppliers/show.php?id=103 this nonprofit website has numerous helpful links
http://www.parkwholesale.com/page/wholesale_ecatalog/

Final edited draft completed. George Leonard - I spiked it on the kitchen table.

I decided to go with Amazon's start up Creat Space, although I have two offers
from what I call brick and mortar paper publishers. One ( starts with a P) estimates
time to printed book in hand to be ten months.

I hold a strong belief the book is suspenseful, timely, and clean writing.

I let go of all my passive past sentence structure and changed from first person
to what I might call an over the shoulder viewpoint. Edits took ten months.

Note to any writers: Think about the point of view in the first Chapter not after
you have written the last line. Point of view was a stickler for two agents and
I took the advice, which was not easy on the ear, and slowly plowed through the
changes. My final writing style in the piece is less Southern Gothic and more
Hemingway than I ever planned. The style fits the theme.

"Toxic Assets" is done.

A wonderful opportunity to see free theater during the month of October is just a click away.
 Nationwide it is "Arts and Humanities Month" in which free admission will be offered at art museums, concerts and theater.

This is the link to theaters offering free tickets to performances in Orange County. This is a great opportunity to get out and see good professional theater.




http://www.sparkoc.com/

Go to the blue bar and choose "Th emes" (strangely enough the offer isn't under "Free events")

Select "October Free Night" under themes menu

Click "Reserve your Tickets Now" and you will see a selection of performances available.



Best,

Coco Says “I did not eat any of the flowers!”

This is Coco our Long Haired Chihuahua (she was trimmed in the summer for
sleeping in my forget-me-nots. Forget-me-nots have seed pods with spiny burrs that tangle in her coat. Coco weighs four pounds. She loves to eat flowers. Lately she has taken to eating my zucchini flowers (yellow stubs in rear of picture and evidence of green and yellow on her lips and front). The zucchini behind her weighs more than she does. She has her ears back because she knows I love to saute the zucchini flowers for a side dish.