As we continue to practice social distancing, some of us have become more technically savvy. We attend online classes on Zoom and YouTube. We order everything from food, seeds, clothing, and anything we can imagine online.
My husband and I are currently in New Haven, CT on a working visit helping our grandkids Amos, 7, and Lukas, 4, with on-line schooling due to the current COVID pandemic.
This is the second part of a blog on trees, this time focusing on the mighty oak. In California, we have some of the mightiest. In fact, in our own back yard, we have a giant, the Valley Oak (Quercus lobata).
About 4 years ago my dad's banana trees in Modesto were outgrowing their space. He wanted to rebuild the redwood gate that the clump grew next to. The tree had been there when my parents bought the house decades ago.
The other day a few master gardeners were talking about a person who had the opportunity to interview a well-known gardener before she passed away at the age of 109: Ruth Bancroft from Walnut Creek.
