Photo: Diane Edwardson, September 9, 2012. A few native Kotolo Milkweed plants survived the City's bulldozing brush clearance. (Cl...
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Red Car Property: A Few Native Plants Dodged City's Bulldozer
Photo: Diane Edwardson, September 9, 2012. A few native Kotolo Milkweed plants survived the City's bulldozing brush clearance. (Cl...
Red Car Property: Native Kotolo Milkweed Didn't Survive Last Week's Brush Clearance
Photo: Diane Edwardson, July 24, 2012. Native Kotolo Milkweed had not yet bloomed before it was plowed under when the City did brush cle...
Red Car Property: Neighborhood Food Web
Photo: Russell Bates, 2010. Red Car Property neighborhood beekeepers in LA Times. (Click on photo to enlarge.)
Corralitas Drive: Rubber Tree Fruit
Photo: Diane Edwardson, July 4, 2012. Fruit from Rubber Trees (Ficus elastica) turns brown on the outside when ripe. It smells a bit li...
Corralitas Public Staircase: Check Out Those Spikes On His Hind Legs!
Photo: Diane Edwardson, June 20, 2012. GAAHHHH! At least the 4" long Grasshopper is eating the non-native, invasive, highly toxic C...
2 Freeway at Rosebud Ave: Blue Elderberries
Photo: Diane Edwardson, June 6, 2012. Native Blue Elderberries (Sambucus mexicana) are both in bloom & fruit throughout the neighbor...
Red Car Property: Giant Grass Near Historic Viaduct Footings
Photo: Diane Edwardson, June 6, 2012. Although it doesn't look so gigantic here, those flower stalks are 6-8 feet tall. I have no i...
Red Car Canyon: Mystery Walnut, Perhaps Not
Photo: Diane Edwardson, June 12, 2012. For the past 2 years, we've tried to identify this tree. It's not Southern California Black...
Red Car Property: Native Spanish Lotus Blooming Near Adelbert
Photo: Diane Edwardson, June 8, 2012. Spanish Lotus (Acmispon americanus) flowers are so tiny, you have to get down on the ground to see...
Red Car Property: Non-Native, Invasive Near India & Silver Lake Court
Photo: Diane Edwardson, June 6, 2012. It's a good guess this is a non-native Thistle, as most of the native varieties have different...
Red Car Property: Scenic & Defensive Landscaping
Photo: Diane Edwardson, May 28, 2012. Non-native Opuntia Cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica) colonize and thrive on our dry hillsides, offering...
Corralitas Drive: Non-Native, Invasive, Exotic
Photo: Diane Edwardson, May 25, 2012. Passion Flower vine is another alien predator looking to take over. However it is a welcome visit...
Red Car Property: Defensive Landscaping
Photo: Diane Edwardson, May 26, 2012. Night blooming Cereus Cactus flowers are often still open before the sun hits them on the Red Car ...
Red Car Property: Non-Native, Invasive, Exotic
Photo: Diane Edwardson, May 26, 2012. Lion's Ear (Leonotis neptifolia) seems to have taken over the Corralitas side of the entrance ...
Red Car Property: Jimsonweed
Photo: Diane Edwardson, May 28, 2012. Jimsonweed (Datura wrightii) is blooming throughout the hills. (Click on photo to enlarge.) Ji...
Corralitas Public Staircase: Native Morning Glory
Photo: Diane Edwardson, May 23, 2012. Native Morning Glories are blooming all over the slope adjacent to the Corralitas Public Staircase...
Corralitas Public Staircase: Native Dandelions
Photo: Diane Edwardson, May 23, 2012. Native Dandelions are blooming on the slope adjacent to the Corralitas Public Staircase. (Click o...
Corralitas Drive: Deadly Nightshade
Photo: Diane Edwardson, May 23, 2012. Nightshade's flowers are smaller than my pinkie fingernail. Nightshade (a species of Solanum)...
Corralitas Drive: That's Not Rotting Meat You Smell, It's My Backyard
Photo: Diane Edwardson, April 30, 2012. A 3" long Stinkhorn Fungus (Lysurus mokusin) brought the faint scent of rotting meat and fl...
Red Car Property: Just How Small Are Those (Probably) Native Wildflowers? *UPDATED
Photo: Diane Edwardson, April 3, 2012. We still have no ID on these tiny and likely native wildflowers found above the historic viaduct fo...
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