The Plants in our new Garden

A few of the California Native Plants at Baldy View





Chilopsis linearis

'Burgandy'

Desert Willow

Aristita purpurea

Wild Grass

Wooly Bluecurls

Trichostema
lanatum








Sages:
Salvia
clevelandii




Salvia
leucophylla
'Point Sal'


















Desert
Mint



Monardella
villosa










Many of these California native plants were used by the California Indians.




My dog 'Shasta' enjoying a Sunday nap in the garden!






More plant identification to come in our next posting!

Planting Day! Sept. 12, 2009

Visit our new Baldy View
California Friendly Garden!

What a wonderful turnout! A big THANK YOU goes out to all our terrific families and students who made our Sept. 12th planting day so successful. We started out at 8:00 am and finished up at about 1:00. Everything looks so beautiful and we did it all ourselves.

We had Andrew Kanzler (Inland Empire Utility Agency) teaching us how and where to plant the native and drought tolerant plants,

Bob Jones (father of 3 terrific daughters that are BV alumni) who directed students in planting as well as the big job of knocking down and spreading out our HUGE decomposed granite pile,

Mr. Dixon who graciously donated his time to BBQ us hotdogs for lunch (with chips) and Mrs. Dixon who was a digging machine!






Mrs Barnes and Mrs Beuhler both came and lent a hand planting, as well as many wonderful moms and dads who came and supported our school by planting over 400 plants,

leveling and raking a HUGH pile of granite

and we can't forget the "water girls" who kept our lovely new plants from getting too thirsty!

We didn't even need to call on the UUSD groundsman for support! Everyone worked together and finished the job in record time, and it looks beautiful! Our families are wonderful and we are proud of their accomplishments.