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(215) CHEZ PANISSE 36th BIRTHDAY: |
You can grow just about anything in California, and plenty of it. Even in Berkeley, blanketed in summer fog, my small garden yields mustard greens, collards, tomatoes, hot chili peppers, Meyer lemons, Queen Anne cherries, Golden Delicious and Arkansas Black apples, parsley, chives, rosemary, oregano, California bay laurel, sage, mint, lemon verbena, and strawberries. Flowers spring up everywhere: abutilon, camelia, fuschia, rose, iris, tulip, nasturtium, rose campion, impatiens balfouri and flea bane. Hummingirds and bees love the abution. Flowering crab apples are, for a few weeks in spring, the joy of the neighborhood. Little children gather under the white clouds of blossoms and shake the limbs for a "flower shower," and for a while the ground, strewn with petals, looks as though a snow has fallen. |