Under the Solano Sun

Many years ago, back in 2007 I wrote a blog about the Hammerhead Worm Bipalium species. This pest seems to have reared its unusual head again. Most of the time people don't even see it, but it's there lurking in the garden. The Bipalium species is a hammerhead worm or broadhead planarians.

I recently wrote an article about a Viceroy butterfly visiting our garden. When I first spotted that beauty on our Butterfly Bush Buddleja, I originally thought it was a Monarch butterfly. After doing some research, I discovered that it was the look-alike Viceroy.

As the year deepens into fall and my cut flowers and vegetables die back, I appreciate the colorful red, white, and yellow flags of the Ipomoea lobota (formerly Mina lobota), the exotic love vine. Wait . . .

Thankful for our trees Trees leaf, flower, fruit and breathe Need only sun, water and soil...

I was talking to my son the other day, and he was considering planting potatoes in his greenhouse, and wanted to know what I knew about doing this. "Precious little" is really not the best answer, but it was the truth. So, I looked it up and thought that I would share what I found.