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Clippings #5- Choosing the Right Plants

  A garden puts living art on display. The parts that are alive are the plants, and choosing the right ones, combining them in a creative design, and planning for long-term success, make these choices, the combinations, and your plans an exciting (at times daunting)

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February 2026 CONNECT

FEBRUARY 2026-02 Volume 1, Number 2 Words and photos by Mike Evans ​ Intro It seems spring could already be hiding just around the corner, but we still have a pretty good potential for actual winter. We hope. So far, we have had no severe

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JANUARY 2026 CONNECT

  JANUARY 2026-01 Volume 1, Number 1 Words and photos by Mike Evans   Intro Welcome to Vol. 1, No 1, as we meet at the trailhead for CalNativeHort CONNECT, our new monthly newsletter for our new community. We’re in this together. I would love

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MARCH 2026 CONNECT

Two dishes from over a dozen I have filled with found jade, representing several years and many hours of lazy beachcombing on the Big Sur coast. Now that I think about it, we had no cell phones back then.  Hmmm. A message here? MARCH 2026-03

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