7/08/2018

GreyWater


Step 1 
Shallow pan with bulkhead that drips into the next pan. Potted plants for modularity. First attempted rocky grow-bed, but found it too inflexible. 

 Plants: Cattail, Mad dog skullcap, Tule, a shrubby willow.



Step 2
Another shallow pan grow bed. 
Plants: Panther lily, cattail, tule, cottongrass



Step 3
Connected via repurposed leaky garden hose. 175 gal hard plastic pond liner (above ground)

Plants: Wapato, Cranberry, Wasabi, mountain arnica, swordleaf rush, buckbean


 Step 4
Repurposed 75 gal plastic stock tank with an overflow bulkhead. The overflow is used to water fruit trees or filling a watering can for garden spot watering. 
Plants: Labrador tea, mad dog skullcap, panther lily, yerba mansa, tule, cattail

6/17/2018

The Blooming Garden


Geranium oregana

Papaver spp.

Sidalcea spp

Oxalis suksdorfii

Geranium spp.

Arnica montana

Geum macrophyllum

Alchemilla mollis

Aruncus dioicus

Digitalis purpurea

4/11/2018

A nameless spring in the Siskiyou Mountains


Craterellus cornucopioides

Hygrocybe spp


Pleurotus spp.

Darlingtonia californica