Red Car Property: Why Is The City Doing Such A Good Job On Brush Clearance When The Private Property Is For Sale?

Photo: Jonathan Vandiveer, September 6, 2012.  The City has been doing some really heavy duty brush clearance on the Red Car Property sin...

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Red Car Property: Arundo Mostly Removed

Photo: Jonathan Vandiveer, September 6, 2012.  Vandiveer reported hearing a bulldozer and brush clearance on the Red Car Property between...

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Riverside Drive: NOT Silver Lake Court Adjacent

Photo: Diane Edwardson, August 12, 2009.  The downslope lot (from the property line marker) is on Riverside Drive.  It showed up in The E...

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Red Car Canyon: Brush Clearance Update

Photo: Jonathan Vandiveer, July 28, 2012.  You need a backhoe to get rid of non-native invasive Pampas Grass.  (Click on photo to enlarge...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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Corralitas Drive: Flock Of Unusual Birds *Identified

Photo: Diane Edwardson, March 31, 2012.  As I was heading out the back door (with a camera in my pocket), a flock of birds was making quite ...

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Red Car Property: Vernal Equinox, Last Night; First Full Day Of Spring, Today

Photo: Diane Edwardson, March 13, 2012.  Arroyo Lupines (purple flowers) might get a little taller since we finally had some rain over the w...

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Red Car Property: Sparse Spring Flowers

Photo: Diane Edwardson, February 24, 2012.  Most years, non-native Wild Radish flowers are waist high by now.  (Click on photo to enlarge.)

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Corralitas Drive: Rain, Jade

Photo: Diane Edwardson, January 21, 2012.  Yesterday's rain sparkled on the Jade flowers in full bloom throughout the neighborhood.  (Cl...

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Red Car Property: Beauty In The Details, Stuff You Missed This Year

Photo: Diane Edwardson, March 10, 2011.  One of the comments we frequently hear is how much our readers appreciate the beauty in the little ...

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Red Car Property: Jacarandas Blooming In May, Stuff You Missed This Year

Photo: Diane Edwardson, May 29, 2011.  In May, we were so busy with public staircases, Red Car Trolley history, hawks, snakes and moles, we ...

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