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Coastal foliage lingers, The new moon brings early low tides

Magnolia trees are beetle friendly

Late spring and into the summer, the Southern magnolia diplays its beautiful, large, white, fragrant flowers.
Late spring and into the summer, the Southern magnolia diplays its beautiful, large, white, fragrant flowers.

Magnolia, The Southern U.S. Native commonly planted as a decorative street tree in many of San Diego’s older neighborhoods, continues to bloom this month. Called the “queen of the flowering broadleaf evergreens,” its branches support leathery, dark-green leaves and large, white blossoms of pleasing fragrance. Magnolia fossils have been found dating back to 20 million years ago; scientists have theorized that their large flowers evolved to encourage pollination by beetles because they existed prior to the evolution of bees.

Red Flowering Gum (Corymbia ficifolia) flowers are followed by urn-shaped fruits that remain on the tree for a year.

Colorful Foliage Along San Diego’s Coastline Lingers, despite the lack of rainfall and warmer, drier days. In the older, landscaped neighborhoods of Coronado, Point Loma, Pacific Beach, and La Jolla, you’ll find oleander and hibiscus blooming in many shades, and colorful bougainvillea creeping over garden walls. Look for the magnificent clusters of red flowers adorning the crowns of the flame eucalyptus (red-flowering gum) trees.

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Lovely May Gray/June Gloom morning at La Jolla Tide Pools. June 1, 2017


Late June’s Very Low Tides, associated with the new moon, are for early risers only! Check out the local tidepool life without hordes of other people around. Tuesday, June 24, features a minus–1.8-foot tide at 3:42 am. Wednesday, June 25, brings an extremely low minus–1.94-foot tide at a more reasonable time of 4:28 am. Thursday morning you can catch another minus–1.8-foot tide at a relatively tardy 5:13 am. Tuesday night will feature a higher than average high-tide of 7.55-foot high tide at 9:05 pm.

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Late spring and into the summer, the Southern magnolia diplays its beautiful, large, white, fragrant flowers.
Late spring and into the summer, the Southern magnolia diplays its beautiful, large, white, fragrant flowers.

Magnolia, The Southern U.S. Native commonly planted as a decorative street tree in many of San Diego’s older neighborhoods, continues to bloom this month. Called the “queen of the flowering broadleaf evergreens,” its branches support leathery, dark-green leaves and large, white blossoms of pleasing fragrance. Magnolia fossils have been found dating back to 20 million years ago; scientists have theorized that their large flowers evolved to encourage pollination by beetles because they existed prior to the evolution of bees.

Red Flowering Gum (Corymbia ficifolia) flowers are followed by urn-shaped fruits that remain on the tree for a year.

Colorful Foliage Along San Diego’s Coastline Lingers, despite the lack of rainfall and warmer, drier days. In the older, landscaped neighborhoods of Coronado, Point Loma, Pacific Beach, and La Jolla, you’ll find oleander and hibiscus blooming in many shades, and colorful bougainvillea creeping over garden walls. Look for the magnificent clusters of red flowers adorning the crowns of the flame eucalyptus (red-flowering gum) trees.

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Lovely May Gray/June Gloom morning at La Jolla Tide Pools. June 1, 2017


Late June’s Very Low Tides, associated with the new moon, are for early risers only! Check out the local tidepool life without hordes of other people around. Tuesday, June 24, features a minus–1.8-foot tide at 3:42 am. Wednesday, June 25, brings an extremely low minus–1.94-foot tide at a more reasonable time of 4:28 am. Thursday morning you can catch another minus–1.8-foot tide at a relatively tardy 5:13 am. Tuesday night will feature a higher than average high-tide of 7.55-foot high tide at 9:05 pm.

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