Salsa dish manzanita

[Cruiser]

Arctostaphylos columbiana (hairy manzanita)

 

[ponderingsage]

Let us know if it pulls through.
I love the pot

 

[Cruiser]

Let us know if it pulls through.
I love the pot

Indeed. This collection is largely experimental; a chance to examine manzanita root structure, how it responds to summer collection, and how it fairs in pumice.

My wife chuckled when I tossed the salsa bowls into our shopping cart. She knew exactly what they’d get used for.

 

[JudyB]

so cool, I've always wanted a manzanita, I hear they are hard to keep in captivity...

 

[Desert O'Piñon]

My wife chuckled when I tossed the salsa bowls into our shopping cart. She knew exactly what they’d get used for.

They know us so well don't they!?

 

[Cruiser]

so cool, I've always wanted a manzanita, I hear they are hard to keep in captivity...

It’s perplexing that shrubs like this can thrive in such harsh conditions, yet seem to die so easily under domestication.

I think it can be done and will involve re-examining things from a more ecological and physiological standpoint.

 

[JudyB]

It’s perplexing that shrubs like this can thrive in such harsh conditions, yet seem to die so easily under domestication.

I think it can be done and will involve re-examining things from a more ecological and physiological standpoint.

Well I wish you luck, Dan Robinson was trying to do them and had one going when we were at Elandan, but that was years ago.