East Bay Home and Gardens

Green Neighbors: Still Pruning? Take Care of Your Wildlife

By Ron Sullivan
Tuesday February 19, 2008
Plumblossoms, a male lesser goldfinch, and an old nest-not his; this one’s probably a squirrel’s.
Never mind that it’s caught me unarmed and ill-prepared, as usual; I love this sample of early spring we’re getting. We didn’t have it quite the same way last year, I guess. As happened, I was ‘way out of town and in another climate for most of last February on a most urgent and unfortunate errand, so I’m only guessing. -more-

Garden Variety: Deer Friendly in Fairfax

By Ron Sullivan
Friday February 15, 2008
O’Donnell’s Fairfax Nursery is an old favorite of mine, though I pass it maybe 20 times for every time I go in to visit. It’s right on one of our two usual routes to Point Reyes, though over the last five years or so it’s the route we take coming back and they’re often closed by that hour. Besides, on the way out we’re generally in a big fat hurry to go see some birds; on the way back, we’re tired and grouchy and unfit for civilized company. -more-