Garden | Peter Rashkin

Conjunction of Venus, Jupiter and Mars – October 2015

Oct 27, 2015 | Astronomy, Environment, Garden

We “know” what planets are: spheres of rock, ice and gas orbiting a star. The ancients didn’t know what they were, but they knew they were something special; different than the fixed stars that kept their position relative to each other. The planets...

Night-blooming Cereus Rides Again

Jun 11, 2015 | Garden

Bloomed night of June 1; withered morning of June 2. I expect five more blooms in the next month or so. [portfolio_slideshow id=1721]

Letter to the Carson Environmental Commission

Oct 24, 2014 | Environment, Garden, Government

September 1, 2014 City of Carson Environmental Commission Dear Commissioners: Thank you for the opportunity to share my thoughts at your August meeting. Your interest encourages me to keep thinking. Two bits of news, and I get this from NPR so you know it’s true: 1....

Small white butterfly

Aug 9, 2014 | Garden, Poetry

This morning in my garden Small white butterfly Caught in a web Fluttered free

Night-blooming cereus does its thing!

Jun 26, 2014 | Garden

Uncle Sammy has been growing cacti for more than half a century at his LA home. For the last few years, he hasn’t been up to caring for them, so I’ve rescued a few. I remember taking this one, tall, slender and fragile, from its corner in his greenhouse,...

Garden log, 5/8/14 – Flower Patrol!

May 8, 2014 | Garden

It’s time for flower patrol! If I don’t walk all through the garden every day, I’ll miss showy epiphyllum blooms at their prime. Especially this one. It comes from a cutting I got years ago from Geri. It blooms at night. There was no bloom yesterday...