Cieneguitas Creek Restoration

This last Friday the 13th was not an unlucky day for the terraces of Cieneguitas Creek. A small but hard working group of us met along the creek in the San Marcos Foothills Preserve and under the guidance of Jonathan Applebaum of Channel Islands Restoration we planted at least 86 1 gallon native plants. These included Wild Four O’clock, California Sunflower, Wild Bitter Gooseberry, Purple Sage, Hummingbird Sage, Giant Rye Grass, and Lemonade Berry. It was fun to see how everybody gravitated towards certain plants as their favorites. We also pulled a lot of weeds along the way. Our number one least favorite invasive weed had to be Castor Bean. Yuck! Enjoy the slide show.