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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#fig harvest time. Although I have lost many fruits to black fig fly, there are a few that made it to maturity. Sweet and delicious. 🌴🌱 #tigerfig #panache #growfood #bayareagarden #eastbaygarden #growyourown

Fig branch with ripe striped fruits in the front, street with parked cars and orange-colored dusk sky in the back.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#Boeing747 in #Lufthansa 100 years celebration livery. It’s cool. Missing #CzechAirlines that were 3 years older but ceased operations 2 years ago.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My #comfortfood - Czech #dill sauce with potatoes and boiled egg.

White bowl full of whitish sauce with pieces of chopped dill leaves pour over potatoes and hard boiled egg sliced in half.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Habemus coffee, in Richmond, California! And yes, also some scales 😬. 🌱🌴 #bayareagardening #eastbaygarden #zonepushing #bayareagarden

Branch with green leaves and two green coffee berries. Scale insect visible between the leaves.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Trying a new thing: Passionfruit liquor. Now I need to wait for a week or so until the alcohol absorbs the #passionfruit flavor and aroma.

Large glass jar on the countertop, closed with a lid, filled with a yellow liquid with some visible black seeds floating in the liquid.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s the #papaya time! Oak leaf papaya, to be exact. These small fruits are just 1 to 2 inches long. Taste like common papaya. Can be eaten with the skin and seeds. This plant survives temperatures down to 30F and thrives in the East Bay. 🌴🌱 #eastbaygarden #bayareagarden #growfood #growyourown

Three orange fruits resembling miniature papayas and two still green all attached to a branch with lush green leaves in the background. Image has the sunset hue.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

One of the last inflorescences of my Kahili #ginger (Hedychium gardnerianum) this year. Wonderful smell it has, sign of late summer. #eastbaygarden #bayareagarden 🌱🌴

Kahili ginger inflorescence-some 15 inches spike with many large yellow flowers with red filaments and anthers. Lush green foliage in the back.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#Macadamia nuts are also developing well! The spring bloom was amazing and if all goes well it will be a bumper harvest - estimated almost 100 nuts on my 10 years old tree. 🌴🌱 #growfood #growyourown #eastbaygarden #bayareagarden

Bunch of 9 still green macadamia nuts on a branch, hold by hand.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Update on my #kiwi fruits. Growing well! Many fruits have set. I started bagging them today because some creatures (squirrels? rats? birds?) started tasting them. Way too early. In the East Bay fruits are usually ripe only in December! #growfood #growyourown #eastbaygarden #bayareagarden

Several almost fully grown kiwi fruits hanging from the vine on metal trellis next to a wooden fence.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Another item on my #bucketlist checked off: finish marathon. It was #SFMarathon earlier today. Absolutely gorgeous day and run 🏃‍♂️ but the legs hurt now 😁

San Francisco marathon finish certificate. Photo of Golden Gate Bridge as a background image. Text: Petr Kosina, July 26, 2026, Full marathon, 4:06:00 finish time, 9:23 pace min/mile.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I am so happy with addition of this #hibiscus to my tropical corner. The weather has been so warm and the hibiscus doesn’t stop blooming! #bayareagarden #eastbaygarden 🌱🌴

Three large orange hibiscus flowers with dark red center covering almost entirely view of the small shrub. Green house wall and window in the back.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The biggest #peach of 2026 in my garden: almost a full pound (445 grams). Cultivar: Saturn. #eastbaygarden #bayareagarden #growfood #growyourown 🌱

Perfectly colored, ripe, huge peach on kitchen scale with the value of 0.982 lb on the display.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Sad, sad news. #blackfigfly aka #BFF found the way to my Tiger fig 😭. I read messages about its spread in the Bay Area for a few weeks now and sadly I must confirm its here. #bayareagarden #eastbaygarden 🌴🌱 #fig

Open immature fig fruit with two cream color maggots in the center.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I managed to convert the #hydrangea back to blue this year 🤗 #eastbaygarden #bayareagarden 🌱

Several clusters of intense blue hydrangea flowers on a green background of leaves of various plants.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Converting raspberries into #raspberry #syrup. Easier than I thought and with fizzy water it’s an absolute deliciousness! #growyourown

Plastic container from large yogurt almost fill with ripe raspberries of different shades of red.

Stainless steel pot full of with bright red liquid with wooden spoon on top.

Large glass bottle filled with dark red liquid on kitchen countertop with other items around.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Onset of #Tigerfigs is good, it just to hope that the black fig fly won’t show up. #fig #bayareagarden #eastbaygarden #growfood 🌴🌱

Several small figs with peculiar green and yellow striping developing in leaf axils on top of the branch.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

My #coffee plant is doing well! Fourth year since I have planted it outside in this well protected corner. It looks like it will be flowering nicely this year. 🌴 #bayareagarden #eastbaygarden #richmondgarden #pushinggrowingzones

Lush green small shrub growing in the corner of the house with bright green siding. In front is purple cordyline. On the side are wooden shelves with some succulents in pots.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

#Clivia, also known as Natal or bush lily. From South Africa, so easy to grow. Thrives under thick camellia bushes in my garden. 🌱🌴 #eastbaygarden #bayareagarden

Low growing plant with dark green, leathery, tong-like leaves with a bunch of bright red bell-shaped flowers sprouting in the center. Leaf mulch on the ground and wooden fence in the back.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This ia how #fireblight infection starts: through flowers. This was on Saturday. On Monday the leaves around these flowers wilted and started blackening too. I have cut the branch 6 inches back. Hopefully that is far enough where the bacteria hasn’t reached yet. Oh, and the tree is #pear.

Pear tree branch with a few flowers after the bloom. One is entirely black, the other has a large black spot. Flowers and surrounding leaves seems to be wilting a bit.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Cantua buxifolia, beautiful flowering shrub attracting hummingbirds, native to the high valleys of the Andes, is apparently national flowering plant of Peru and Bolivia. Growing happily in Richmond, CA. #cantuta

Cluster of long tubular flowers with yellow base and white petals with pink stripes, held by a hand.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Made my first #passionfruit (#lilikoi) #jelly from the frozen pulp I kept in the freezer since the autumn. It is sooo #delicious! #growyourown #makeyourown #preserve 🍜🍽️🌴

Passionfruit pulp with black seeds in the blender.

Passionfrtuit pulp with seeds in the sieve with wooden spatula.

Orange-yellow Passionfruit juice without seeds in the plastic container.

Yellow-orange Passionfruit jelly in the stainless steel pot with wooden spatula.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Pincushion flower, #Leucospermum, bloom time is here again. These flowers look like from another world. 🌱 #eastbaygarden #SFBayAreagarden #gardening #flower

Bright orange inflorescence with long rigid styles with stigma on tip protruding from hardly visible individual florets. Lush green background of many different plants.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

My #macadamia set up incredible amount of inflorescences this year. If it gets pollinated and if I manage to protect it from squirrels and roof rats, it’s gonna be something! 🌱🌴 #growfood #EastBaygarden #gardening #SFBayAreagarden #growyourown

Several pink-purple inflorescence spikes hanging down from branches with weirdly curved leaves.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Chinese ground #orchids, Bletilla striata. Very easy to grow here in #SFBayArea 🌱 #EastBayGarden #gardening #zone10a

Three dark pink typical orchid flowers on the green foliage background.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Kaka beak sometimes also called parrot’s beak (Clianthus puniceus) - shrub from New Zealand. Now in full bloom in Richmond. #gardening #EastBayGardening #subtropical 🌱

Shrub with weeping branches with bright red flowers in shape of bird beaks in front of the green color house.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Yesterday I visited #USSArizona World War II. Memorial. It was humbling experience. A beautiful morning, as it was on Dec 7, 1941, until the Japanese army attacked.

White concrete bridge-like structure, just above the water with docking ramp for boats in the front and text: USS ARIZONA MEMORIAL. USA flag above against blue sky with a few white clouds. Green vegetation in the land behind. Rusty remnants of a boat sticking from the water on the right.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Just finished 5+ hours visit to #BishopMuseum in Honolulu. intense learning! Excellent exhibitions. My head is spinning from trying to absorb so much information.

Stone building, resembling Victorian castle a bit, with text in the arch above the main entrance: 1889 BERNICE P BISHOP MUSEUM . green grass loan in the front, blue sky with some white clouds. Big pandanus plant in the bottom right corner and a few small palms in the bottom left corner.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Blocked and reported as Nazi propaganda.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

#treetomato time again! Love the juice🥤 from these fruits. Season in the Bay Area starts in December and lasts through March. #eastbaygarden #bayareagardening #growfood #growyourown #tomatedearbol 🌴🌱

Many res, ovoid fruits, resembling Roma tomatoes, hanging on long petioles from small trees in a row. A trellis is visible behind.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Witnessing release of fresh hatchlings of Ridley #turtle to the Pacific Ocean at sunset, which is safer time of the day for them, was a special moment. @TortuguerosLasPlayitas (todostortugueros.org) #BajaCalifornia #travel #roadtrip #TodosSantos

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Then mining town Santa Rosalía when French company Boleo mined copper until 1940s. This company also brought here prefabricated iron church from France, said to be designed by #GustaveEiffel. An interesting structure indeed!

Front view of a small church painted in white with blue sky and some clouds in the background.

View of the church inside resembling a boat turned up side down. The Celine is painted in creamy white, lower side walls are wooden. There are some windows with stained glasses on the upper part.

Commemorative plague on the wall with text: Iglesia Santa Barbara de Santa Rosalia Disenada en 1884 por Gustave Eiffel construida en 1887 Expuesta en Paris en 1889 junto con La Torre Eiffel, Estuyo en Bruselas Belgiga desarmaga, y se traslado a Santa Rosalia Instalandose de 1896 a 1897. Dic. 1887

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Day 4 of our #BajaCalifornia #roadtrip: first we went to the mountains, San Francisco de La Sierra, to see thousands of years old cave paintings. We had time only for cueva #ElRatón.

View of half-open cave and two men standing on a platform with stairs in the front of the cave.

Cave painting: man silhouette with open arms and hands turned up. Half of the person is orange, half is black.

Cabe painting: black silhouette of puma/jaguar and ochre deer above it.

View of the large candelabre cactus at the edge of a terrace with view of large area below including some mountains far in the distance.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Literal middle of nowhere 😁 200+ km to the closest filing station each direction. #trip #tripphotography #BajaCalifornia

Deseret’s landscape with orange soil, few very weird-looking trees (cirios) that have almost no branches, just the main trunks standing against the blue sky. Some other low vegetation at the bottom.

A man in red sweater and sombrero standing in front of possibly 10ft tall branches cactus. Some other similar-looking cactuses in the back. Other shrubby low vegetation in the front.

Several tall pole-like cactuses in front of a hill and blue sky. Some short green vegetation on the front.

Two young man in sombreros smiling to the camera. Tall, pole-like cactuses in the back. Other green vegetation around.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Day 3 of our Baja California #roadtrip. Leaving San Quintin, we visited La Lobera, half-cave with small sand beach used by harbor seals. And then it was Valle de Los Cirios, a beautiful big #cactus 🌵 and succulent plants (Fouqueria). Ended up in Cataviña.

Cove with small sandy beach inside and few dotar that are harbor seals. Blue sky with some clouds.

View into a cove with small sandy beach inside. Sun shining to about 1/3 of the beach. There are some small dots that are harbor seals.

Two young man in sombreros smiling in front of a cove with small sandy beach inside.

Small Sony cactus with a few white-yellow flowers arranged in form of a circle.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Day two #roadtrip from Ensenada to San Quintin. Cool place to visit is La Bufadora. Visiting just before sunset meant not many people around. I was surprise how much agriculture there is in San Vicente and San Quintin valleys. Mainly caneberries and strawberries, by Driscoll. A LOT of plastic 😥.

Sunset with colorful letter sculpture forming the word ´Ensenada’. Young man in sombrero leaning towards the letter A.

Metal sculpture of Pelican skeleton against the ocean shore at sunset.

Two men smiling with colorful sunset on the beach as a background.

Fisherman in the ocean beach are colorful sunset. Pelican in the fishing flight above the fisherman.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Starting our #roadtrip through #BajaCalifornia slowly with #winetasting in Valle de Guadalupe, #LaRutaDelVino 🍇 @ Viñedos de la Reina. #travel #roadtrip

View through green valley with a corner of vineyard on the right, red blooming bouganvillea in the front and mountains with blue sky in the background.

Wine tasting. Wooden desk with glass of white wine, cheese board, and a corner of a vineyard in the background.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

#Chayote season is over now - in total I harvested more than 25 fruits, each of them between 1 and 2 pounds. Yesterday I cooked chayote & green chile ( jalapeño, serrano + poblano) #soup which was absolutely delicious!!!

Two chayote fruits (resembling big light-green pears) hanging from the plant trailing on metal structure on the backyard garden.

Thirteen harvested chayote fruits (resembling big light-green pears) on cream-colored cloth.

One chayote fruit resembling a big light-green pear on kitchen scale. Display showing 976 grams.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

My biggest #chayote squash this year: 654 grams. #growfood #growyourown #urbanfarm 🌴🌱

Pear-like, pale-green squash fruit on scale with display showing 654g.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

#Mandarin season started in Richmond. This is my satsuma. Clementine is later, but also got first few fruits. #growfood #growyourown #eastbaygarden #urbanfarm

Bowl with many ripe mandarins held in front of mandarin shrub with many more fruits still to be harvested.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

You won’t succeed growing pomegranate in Richmond/ElCerrito border due to foggy summers. Well, challenge accepted. This is Sharp Velvet variety. #delicious #growfood #growyourown #urbanfarm

Half open pomegranate fruit with dark purple arils inside. Wooden deck floor is the background.

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Clobrda @clobrda.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

#tigerfig harvest started in the Bay Area. They taste great! I am happy with this year yield ☺️. #growfood #growyourown #urbanfarm #fig

Two almost ripe fig fruits with yellow and green stripes on a branch with a lush green background.

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