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Senior Moments
California's Finite Water Supply
2016
San Bruno Cable
A
Hello
welcome
to
senior
moments.
I'm
dolly
semana
water
conservation
is
one
of
the
major
topics
of
conversation
these
days,
even
after
a
rainy
winter,
our
reservoirs
are
not
filled.
This
seems
to
be
an
ongoing
problem
here
in
California
when
I
first
moved
here
it
was
all
about
rationing,
but
that
is
and
was
a
temporary
solution.
Lately,
the
emphasis
is
on
changes.
We
can
make
to
permanently
reduce
our
water
waste.
I
just
changed
my
old
toilet
for
a
new
model
that
uses
less
than
one
and
one
half
gallons
of
water
per
flush.
A
The
old
model
took
six
gallons
of
water
and
took
forever
to
fill
I
even
changed.
My
showerhead
I
can't
tell
the
difference
between
old
and
new
as
an
added
bonus
using
less
water
saves
you
money.
Our
first
guest
today
is
Andrew
Johnson
of
the
Bay
Area
water
supply
and
conservation
agency.
She's,
going
to
talk
about
our
limited
water
supply
in
the
many
ways
in
which
you
can
help
conserve,
I'm.
B
Andre
johnson,
I'm
a
senior
water
resources
specialist
with
the
bay
area,
water
supply
and
conservation
agency
or
bosca.
We
are
a
water
agency
that
provides
regional
water,
supply,
planning,
resource
development
and
conservation
program
services
for
our
26
member
agencies
in
san
mateo,
santa
clara
and
alameda
counties.
Bosco
was
originally
formed
to
represent
the
interests
of
the
26
wholesale
customers
to
the
san
francisco
regional
water
system.
At
san
francisco.
B
Our
member
agencies
represent
about
two-thirds
of
the
water
use
from
the
san
francisco
regional
water
system,
and
we
make
sure
that
their
collective
interests
are
represented
at
san
francisco
and
that
they
are
achieving
a
reliable
supply
of
high-quality
water
at
a
fair
price.
Water
conservation
is
something
a
lot
of
people
think
of
as
being
a
drought
issue,
but
it's
actually
been
a
long-term
goal
for
bosca
and
our
member
agencies,
and
it's
we
consider
it
to
be
an
important
part
of
our
overall
water
supply
portfolio.
B
We
rely
on
water
conservation
to
make
appropriate
use
of
the
limited
water
resources
we
have
available
to
us
and
because
of
the
conservation
that
has
taken
place
in
this
region.
Over
the
past
20
years,
we've
been
able
to
accommodate
a
lot
more
people
and
a
lot
more
business
here,
while
still
managing
to
reduce
our
overall
water
use.
Our
water
supply
varies
quite
a
bit
from
year
to
year,
so
you
can
have
a
very
wet
year,
followed
by
an
what
we
call
an
average
year,
followed
by
a
dry
year.
B
The
drought
is,
when
you
have
an
extended
period
with
multiple
dry
years,
that
really
start
to
impact
our
water,
storage
and
water
supply
availability,
for
example,
the
last
major
drought.
Prior
to
this
one
was
the
1987
to
1992
drought,
and
during
that
drought
we
certainly
had
an
extended
dry
period
within
it.
There
were
some
years
that
were
worse
than
others.
We
had
some
really
extremely
dry
years,
but
then
there
were
some
years
and
there,
where
snowpack
and
precipitation
were
closer
to
normal
this
year
with
the
drought.
B
We
have
had
three
of
the
driest
years
on
record
in
a
row.
Fortunately,
this
year,
we've
so
far,
we're
optimistic
that
it's
going
to
be
a
better
one
and
one
good
year
is
not
enough
to
undo
the
damage
that
has
been
caused
by
the
last
four
dry
years.
The
laundry
gone
program
provides
customers
with
rebates
for
picking
out
their
lawns,
which
are
the
highest
water
use
planet.
You
can
have
in
your
and
replacing
them
with
native
or
drought,
tolerant
plants.
The
program
provides
rebates
here
in
San
Bruno
of
up
to
one
dollar
per
square.
B
Foot
of
lawn
that
you
take
out.
The
lawn
began
program
is
available
to
any
water
customer
in
san
bruno.
It's
available
to
both
residential
customers
as
well
as
two
commercial
and
industrial
customers.
Lon
certainly
do
they
are
considered
to
be
one
of
the
highest
water
use
plants,
and
it's
really
because
they're
not
native
to
this
region
lawns
have
a
very
high
evapotranspiration,
meaning
that
the
amount
of
water
that
they
use
per
square
foot
is
a
lot
higher
than
other
plants.
B
There
are
so
many
plant
species
that
are
adapted
to
this
climate
and
are
meant
to
grow
in
an
area
that
has
relatively
low
precipitation
and
lawns.
Just
aren't
one
of
those
rainwater
harvesting
is
a
method
by
which
customers
can
capture
rainwater
that
falls
on
their
own
properties
and
use
it
on
site
to
irrigate
their
landscapes.
Customers
can
capture
this
rainwater
in
what
we
call
rain
barrels,
which
are
large
barrels.
They
come
in
many
shapes
sizes
and
designs.
B
Some
fancy,
some
very
simple
which
can
be
used
to
store
the
rain
water
after
storm
for
use
gradually
over
time
to
irrigate
gardens
gray.
Water
is
gently
used
water,
such
as
water
from
bathroom
sinks,
washing
machines,
bathtubs
or
showers,
which
is
reused
for
irrigating
one's
landscape.
There
are
many
types
of
grey
water
systems,
ranging
from
the
most
basic
to
very
complex
systems
that
require
major
plumbing
improvements.
B
The
simplest
types
of
systems
might
be
a
bucket
that
you
keep
in
your
shower
to
capture
the
shower
water,
while
it's
warming
ups,
that
you
then
use
to
refill
a
fountain
in
your
yard
or
irrigate
your
vegetable
garden.
There
are
also
simple
systems
like
the
laundry
to
landscape
system
which
a
homeowner
whose
fairly
handy
can
install
themselves,
and
there
are
quite
a
few
resources
available
to
someone
who
is
looking
to
install
a
laundry
to
landscape
gray
water
system.
B
Bosca
offers
quite
a
few
classes
and
workshops
on
laundry
to
landscape,
gray,
water
system,
installation
that
are
free
to
the
public,
and
we
also
have
resources
available
on
our
website.
For
someone
looking
to
install
one
of
these
systems
for
more
complex
graywater
systems,
a
contractor
would
likely
be
required,
as
it
is
critical
when
looking
at
grey
water
to
make
sure
that
you're
not
going
to
have
a
cross
connection
issue
where
you
end
up
mixing
your
grey
water
with
your
drinking
water,
bosca
has
to
rebate
programs
available
to
help
customers
reduce
their
indoor
water
use.
B
The
first
is
our
high-efficiency
toilet
rebate
program.
Many
people
don't
know
this,
that
for
customers
in
an
older
single-family
home
who
haven't
replaced
their
toilet
in
the
last
20
to
30
years,
their
toilet
is
the
highest
water
using
fixture
within
their
home
in
order
to
help
customers
reduce
their
use
in
this
area.
Bosca
offers
rebates
of
up
to
125
dollars
for
replacing
an
old
toilet
with
a
new
high-efficiency
model.
B
There
are
quite
a
few
ways
that
customers
can
reduce
their
water
use
without
having
to
replace
fixtures
or
take
out
their
lawn
for
someone
looking
for
simple
ways
to
save
I
recommend
several
things
indoors.
First
of
all
never
run
the
water
when
you're
not
using
it
turn
it
off
when
you're
brushing
your
teeth
or
in
between
washing
your
dishes.
It's
always
important
to
check
for
leaks
on
a
regular
basis
and
to
make
sure
that
you
fix
leaks
as
soon
as
you
identify
them,
as
those
can
be
a
huge
water
waster,
for
example,
for
your
toilet.
B
A
C
C
A
Welcome
back
to
senior
moments,
many
of
us
here
in
San
Bruno
live
in
single-family
homes.
Most
of
these
homes
have
big
grass
lawns
they're
made
up
of
Kentucky
bluegrass,
rye
grass
and
fescue,
none
of
which
are
native
grasses.
They
require
constant,
upkeep
and
need
a
lot
of
water.
How
many
of
you
spend
your
saturdays
mowing?
The
lawn
not
too
long
ago,
I
walk
down
one
of
the
streets
in
san
bruno.
There
were
several
properties
without
any
grass.
They
were
landscape
with
plants
that
don't
take
a
lot
of
water.
A
They
were
interesting
and
colorful
I
actually
lingered,
to
have
a
good
look,
I
thought
wow.
How
did
they
do
that?
They
were
beautiful.
Sherry
Osaka
is
a
local
landscape,
architect.
She
specializes
in
plants
that
are
so
well
adapted
to
this
area
that
many
of
them
thrive
during
the
summer
with
little
or
no
water
at
all.
Let's
meet
her
so.
D
My
name
is
sherry:
Osaka
I'm,
a
licensed
landscape
architect
in
the
state
of
California
I've,
been
doing
this
since
1997.
So
almost
twenty
years,
a
landscape
architect,
that's
very
specific.
It's
somebody
who
does
design
and
can
do
construction
details
and
full
construction
drawings.
When
people
say
landscaper,
they
typically
mean
a
landscape
contractor,
but
there
are
other
people
in
the
field
as
well.
There's
landscape
designers
and
they
can
do
conceptual
plans
and
planting
plans.
There's
irrigation,
specialist,
but
usually
a
landscaper
is
a
landscape.
D
Contractor
I've
been
passionate
about
native
plants
for
a
long
time
and
there's
a
lot
of
different
reasons
for
it.
California
is
a
Mediterranean
climate,
of
course,
and
we're
one
of
only
five
Mediterranean
climates
in
the
whole
world.
It's
a
very,
very
tiny
portion
of
our
land
area
in
our
garden
area
and
California
actually
has
the
harshest
Mediterranean
climate.
It
is
a
dryer
for
a
longer
period
than
any,
and
we
have
more
temperature
changes
that
happen
in
California,
so
our
native
plants
are
really
really
adapted
to
this
area.
D
Many
people
think
that
all
California
native
plants
are
drought-tolerant
they're,
not
I
mean
we
have
some
plants
that
grow
along
streamside.
Some
plants
that
grow
in
vernal
pools
bogs
near
the
coast
in
tidal
pools
things
like
that,
but
we
do
have
a
lot
of
plants
that
are
very
drought
adapted
for
this
area,
so
drought,
tolerant,
there's
lots
of
drought,
tolerant
Mediterranean
plants,
but
there's
also
many
many
drought,
tolerant
California
native
plants.
There's
almost
6,000
species
of
plants
native
to
California
and
half
of
those
species
grow
nowhere
else
in
the
world.
D
So
it's
very,
very
special
and
when
you
use
them
you
get
something
that
really
speaks
California
and
we
have
a
marvelous
beautiful
state
here
with
beautiful
foliage
and
creatures,
and
we
need
to
really
embrace
that.
So
a
lot
of
people
ask
when
should
I
think
about
planting
native
plants.
The
the
ideal
is
actually
in
the
fall
late-september
early
October.
D
The
days
are
shorter,
the
nights
are
cooler,
the
plants
are
going
to
have
more
time
to
really
get
established
and
the
rains
are
starting
to
come
and
then
they
can
get
a
good
root
system
going
before
they
have
to
endure.
That
harsh
summer,
that
we
have
here-
but
that
said
we
put
native
gardens
in
all
year
long
and
you
might
have
to
care
for
them
a
little
bit
more.
You
might
have
a
few
more
losses
if
you
do
it
in
July,
but
you'll
still
have
good
success.
D
A
lot
of
times,
I'll
put
in
garden
full
of
native
plants
like
this
one
and
I
warn
people
they
may
not
for
a
while.
That's
okay,
you're,
not
seeing
a
lot
of
stuff
happening
above
ground.
It's
all
happening
below
ground
they've
got
to
get
a
really
good
root
system
going
before
they're
really
going
to
start
producing
flowers
and
all
of
that
because
they
know
they're
going
to
have
six
seven,
eight
nine
months
of
dryness
in
the
year.
The
other
thing
that
is
very
important
is
bugs
eat
native
plants
and
a
lot
of
people.
D
D
So
plants
are
the
first,
like
insects
are
the
second,
and
so,
if
you
have
native
plants,
you
have
insects
that
know
how
to
eat
them,
and
there
are
birds
that
will
then
feed
them
to
their
babies
and
even
though
we
bring
plants
in
and
they've
been
in
our
area
for
even
hundreds
of
years,
there's
very
few
species
that
will
eat
them.
For
example,
a
eucalyptus
which
comes
from
Australia
there's
one
species
of
insects
that
eat
a
eucalyptus.
D
A
lot
of
people
are
very
concerned
about
the
monarch
butterfly,
and
we
know
that
the
monarch
only
lays
its
eggs
on
one
genus
of
plants,
its
Asclepius
or
milkweed,
and
there
are
several
different
varieties
in
California
of
native
milkweed,
but
without
native
milkweed
in
our
gardens
or
milkweed
in
our
gardens,
the
monarch
butterflies
will
not
lay
their
eggs,
we
won't
have
more
caterpillars,
we
won't
have
more
butterflies.
So
there's
a
lot
of
symbiotic
relationships
between
plants
and
insects
that
are
that
are
really
good
and
we
want
to
promote
I
use,
drip
irrigation
for
everything.
D
I,
don't
use
spray
irrigation
at
all.
I,
don't
design
with
it
almost
never
drip
irrigation
is
fabulous
because
it
lets
the
water
out
very
slowly.
Most
of
us
have
clay
soil.
Some
people
have
sandy
soil,
but
drip
even
works
for
sandy
soil.
Clay
can
only
absorb
water
so
fast
and
spray
irrigation
delivers
it
much
faster
than
our
clay.
Soils
can
soak
it
up.
So
that's
when
you
start
to
get
run
off
and
you
see
water
in
the
storm
drains
which
we
really
don't
want,
because
that's
just
total
waste.
D
So
most
people
are
used
to
drip
irrigation
like
this,
where
you're
punching
in
a
knitters,
we
call
that
online
drip
irrigation
and
then
the
new
kind
is
where
you
have
a
drift
emitter
actually
in
the
tubing
itself,
so
it's
called
inline
emitters.
This
is
the
best
stuff.
You
can't
necessarily
always
find
it
at
your
hardware
store.
You
have
to
go
to
an
irrigation
supply
store,
but
there's
many
around
in
the
area,
and
this
just
works
great
because
you
can
just
lay
out
the
tubing
and
water
your
whole
area,
but
this
works
really
really
great.
D
Sometimes
people
do
ask
for
no
maintenance,
gardens
and
live
plants
need
some
hair.
So
you
can't
really
have
no
main.
Some
plants,
though,
really
take
very
little
maintenance.
Iris
Douglas
iris
are
or
Pacific
Coast
hybrid
irises.
Really
they
don't
need
anything
except
for
every
three
to
five
years.
They
might
need
dividing,
and
then
you
can,
you
know,
multiply
and
use
them
around
your
garden.
D
Most
plants,
I,
would
say
would
benefit
from
a
minimum
of
once
a
year,
so
clients
who
have
had
lawns
and
then
decide
to
get
rid
of
them
for
a
native
plant
garden
or
a
drought-tolerant
garden.
They
no
longer
have
a
weekly
garden
service.
A
lot
of
times,
I
tell
them
orderly,
would
be
just
fine
as
long
as
they're
willing
to
do
just
a
little
bit
of
blowing
or
sweeping
in
the
meantime,
but
definitely
do
not
need
weekly
anymore.
How
do
you
get
rid
of
a
lawn?
D
A
lot
of
people
think
you
have
to
use
some
kind
of
an
herbicide
like
roundup
or
some
other
chemical.
You
really
don't
most
lon.
The
only
exception
is
really
Bermuda
grass.
That
takes
some
special
care
to
really
get
rid
of
it,
but
most
lawns
you
can
simply
sheet
mulch
them.
So
a
lot
of
people
are
familiar
with
landscape
fabric,
which
is
a
plastic
material
and
it
stays
around
for
20
years
and
then
it
splits
into
little
pieces
and
you're
picking
it
out
of
the
garden.
So
better
way
to
do
it
is
with
a
biodegradable
paper.
D
You
can
use
newspaper
four
to
six
layers
of
newspaper
old
cardboard
boxes.
I,
like
two
layers
of
you
know,
just
a
box
flatten
makes
two
layers
or
you
can
buy
rules
of
brown
paper
and
use
that
in
a
garden
and
again,
two
layers.
If
you
cover
up
the
lawn,
you
keep
it
from
getting
to
the
Sun,
you
keep
it
from
photosynthesizing,
that's
going
to
kill
it,
and
if
you
let
the
blond
decompose
in
place,
there's
tons
and
tons
of
nitrogen
in
the
in
the
lawn.
D
So
while
it's
decomposing,
it's
actually
heating
your
soil
and
all
the
microorganisms
in
the
soil,
whereas,
if
you
used
an
herbicide,
not
only
are
you're
killing
your
lawn
you're
killing
a
lot
of
the
microorganisms
in
the
soil,
most
people
think
of
mulch
is
some
kind
of
a
woody
mulch
bark
mulch
or
something
like
that
leave
are
an
excellent
mulch
as
well,
especially
if
you
shred
them
and
the
reason
that
we
put
it
in
the
garden.
Is
it
really
keeps
the
moisture
in
the
soil
and
it
suppresses
weed?
D
So
it's
kind
of
a
twofer
compost
is
leaves
coffee,
ground
vegetable
waste
things
that
have
been
broken
down
by
microorganisms
in
a
pile
or
usually
like
that.
It
is
a
very
good
addition
to
the
garden
because
it
really
feeds
the
soil.
What
you
learn
over
time
or
what
I
learned?
Is
you
no
longer
think
about
feeding
the
plants
if
you
feed
the
soil
and
take
care
of
the
soil,
the
soil
feeds
the
plant.
D
So
when
you
add
compost,
if
you
have
really
heavy
clay,
soil
compost
is
the
thing
to
kind
of
really
lighten
up
that
clay.
Soil
open
up
spaces
in
it.
So
water
can
drain
and
if
you
have
sandy
soil,
it's
really
good
to
add
some
compost
and
organic
matter
in
it
so
that
it
can
hold
more
of
the
moisture,
whereas
the
sandy
soil
usually
lets
everything
just
kind
of
drain
right
through
it.
So
compost
really
I
never
buy
fertilizers
from
my
garden,
I
just
used
compost
in
it,
the
difference
between
compost
and
mulch
mulch.
D
Nothing
has
really
happened
to
it.
It
might
have
just
been
chipped.
You
might
have
gotten
it
from
an
arborist.
We
call
that
arbor
chips
that
are
chipped
up
but
compost
is
really
broken
down.
You
should
not
really
be
able
to
tell
what
it
was
before
you
shouldn't
really
be
see
pieces
of
leaves
it
should
be
pretty
well
broken
down.
It
should
really
be
dark
brown.
It
should
really
smell
good,
whereas
bark
mulch
or
even
shredded
leaves
for
mulch
you're,
really
seeing
the
the
particles
of
it.
D
Now
that
said,
I
do
use
compost
as
mulch
in
my
vegetable
gardens.
That's
like
the
one
place
that
I
really
like
to
use
compost
once
the
soil
is
really
warmed
up.
I'm,
almost
ready
to
do
that.
In
my
vegetable
garden,
my
tomatoes
are
in
the
soil,
is
getting
nice
and
warm
we're
starting
to
get
to
the
warmer
days.
That's
a
really
good
time
to
put
one
to
two
inches
of
compost
as
a
mulch
in
your
vegetable
garden
and
that's
going
to
feed
your
vegetables
for
another
year.
D
You
know
there's
something
really
special
that
happened,
I
find
when
you
get
away
from
lon
and
you
go
to
gardening
with
native
plants
and
gardening
organically
there's
something
I
find
that
really
touches
my
soul
when
I
do
that,
and
just
really
seeing
all
the
creatures,
little
lizards
bees,
butterflies,
birds,
I
get
so
many
more
birds
in
my
garden.
Now
that
I've
gone
to
native
plant
and
I
just
find
them
endlessly
fascinating.
It's
like
another
dimension
that
you're
adding
it's.
This
change
in
this
movement
that
you're
really
getting
in
there
it
to
me.
D
It
really
feels
right,
so
I
really
encourage
everybody
to
do
it.
It's
creating
a
little
bit
of
peace
in
your
own
backyard
for
native
plants.
I
would
really
recommend
the
California
native
plant
society.
That's
a
California,
obviously
organization,
there's
one
for
the
bay
area
as
well.
The
Santa
Clara
Valley
Chapter
of
the
California
native
plant
society,
you
can
find
recommendations
for
gardeners
and
people
that
do
native
plants,
gardeners
and
designers.
They
also
have
a
lot
of
their
talks
videotaped,
so
you
can
go
to
their
education
and
presentation
and
they
have
a
lot
of
talks.
D
Videotaped,
like
on
rainwater
harvesting,
on
designing
your
own
native
garden
on
attracting
bees,
butterflies
things
like
that.
So
that's
a
really
good
source,
there's
also
your
boob
wayna
nursery
is
in
Half
Moon
Bay.
They
have
an
excellent
website
with
lots
of
garden
guides
and
information
about
individual
native
plants.
My
website
is
sustainable.
Hyphen
landscape,
calm
on
there
I
have
some
presentations
that
I've
done
in
the
past
for
classes.
A
Six
thousand
plants
to
choose
from
half
are
drought-tolerant
and
are
not
found
anywhere
else
in
the
world.
Wow
Sherri
teaches
some
free
workshops
offered
by
bosca
all
about
landscape
using
native
and
drought.
Tolerant
plants
go
to
their
website
for
information
on
the
up
and
coming
workshops.
As
sherry
said,
the
plants
feed
the
bugs
the
bugs
feed
the
birds
and
other
wildlife.
Our
next
guest
dr.
Gordon
Frankie,
is
all
about
the
bees.
Well.
E
My
name
is
Gordon
Frankie
and
I'm,
a
faculty
member
at
the
University
of
California
Berkeley.
My
specialty
is
bees,
flowers
they
like,
and
the
people
that
interact
with
both
the
bees
and
the
flowers.
My
specialty
is
California
bees,
but
I
also
work
in
costa
rica
in
a
certain
region
where
they
also
have
wonderful
bees.
Actually,
the
country
of
Costa
Rica
has
800
species
of
bees,
which
most
people
don't
realize.
California
we
have
1600
different
species.
E
We
try
to
spread
the
word
about
the
value
of
bees
and
the
value
bees
for
the
for
their
own
sake,
and
also
for
the
fact
that
they
pollinate
most
of
the
6,500
plant
types
that
we
have
in
California
and
they
also
pollinate
a
lot
of
our
food
plants
that
we
come
to
enjoy.
In
fact,
thirty
percent
of
the
food
plants
that
we
have
on
our
plate
have
had
a
pollination
event
before
they
got
to
our
plate.
Bees
really
are
interested
in
three
things:
they're
interested
in
pollen
nectar
and
sex.
E
E
If
you
were
to
take
in
all
of
the
wild
areas
associated
with
urban
things
like
the
Coastal
Range,
probably
the
number
would
go
up
to
five
or
six
hundred
species
honey
bees
on
the
only
be
we
have
at
the
moment.
That
makes
a
honey
that
we
that
we
harvest
there
are
no
native
bees
that
we
have
in
California
that
make
honey.
Now
that
always
leads
to
a
question.
Well,
what
good
are
these
bees?
Well
I
pause
a
little
bit
smile
and
usually
say
well,
just
think
of
all
the
beautiful
California
wildflowers
and
the
California
flora.
E
We
have
6500
types
of
plants
in
California;
they
have
evolved
in
co-evolved
with
the
native
bees
here
and
without
those
bees
working
all
the
time
when
you're
not
looking,
we
wouldn't
have
the
gorgeous
flowers
that
we
have
now.
In
addition,
these
native
bees
do
a
lot
of
pollinating
and
a
lot
of
visiting
of
non-native
plants,
because
native
bees
also
have
the
ability
to
expand
their
host
range
of
flat
plowers
that
they
visit,
and
they
also
go
to
a
lot
of
non-natives
as
well.
Some
things
like
lavender
is
the
first
thing
that
comes
to
mind.
E
The
other
thing
that
we're
finding
out
now
to
be
the
case
in
California,
especially
in
agricultural
areas,
is
there's
a
relationship
between
native
bees
in
urban
areas,
where
people
plant
plants
that
they
like
and
adjacent
agricultural
fields.
It
looks
like
a
lot
of
these.
Bees
are
moving
from
urban
areas
into
the
agricultural
fields
whenever
they
feel
like
it,
because
bees
are
always
searching
for
new
sources
of
food
and
the
reason
why
they
search
is
because
that's
how
they
evolve
to
begin
with
with
the
California
flora.
E
If
you
know
anything
about
the
California
flora,
many
of
the
flowers
are
herbaceous
and
is
there
very
short
lived
there
and
you
and
they
flower
relatively
quickly,
and
the
bees
have
to
be
aware
that,
once
the
flowering
tops
are
declines,
they
have
to
move
elsewhere.
So
the
bees
have
it
built
into
their
genetic
makeup
that
they
have
to
be
searching
all
the
time,
so
they
are
searching.
E
So
this
is
what
makes
urban
or
habitat
gardening
for
bees
in
urban
environments
very
successful,
and
that
is
you
plant
a
garden
and
almost
within
a
matter
of
minutes,
you
can
expect
bees
to
show
up.
If
you
have
flowers,
it's
that
fast,
because
bees
are
always
searching,
gardeners
can
do
a
lot
to
help
bees
in
the
home
garden.
Probably
the
one
thing
that
we
recommend
right
away
to
people
is
well
two
things.
E
First
of
all,
plant
the
right
plants
and
their
plant
list
now
from
a
variety
of
organizations,
including
ours
from
the
university
California,
there's
also
the
pollinator
partnership
list,
there's
also
the
Xerxes
Society
lists.
All
of
these
have
the
kinds
of
plants
that
you
should
be
planting.
The
bees
like
you
plant
the
plants,
the
bees
will
come.
The
other
thing
you
should
not
be
doing
is:
you
should
not
be
using
chemicals,
chemical,
pesticides
in
your
garden.
E
You
may
have
target
plants
like
aphids
or
something
else
that
you
don't
like,
but
those
chemicals
when
they
go
out
in
the
garden
they
also
hit
non-target
organisms
like
bees
and
beneficial
wasps
and
official
flop
flies,
do
whatever
you
can
not
to
use
chemicals.
There
are
many
alternatives
to
using
chemicals,
and
those
should
be
used,
including
a
very
simple
one,
which
is,
if
you
have
a
plant,
that's
bothered
by
athens
or
white
flies
or
whatever
consider
taking
the
plant
out
and
putting
something
else
in
its
place
and
not
using
chemicals.
E
In
my
lab,
we
use
the
term
mulch
madness
and
it
came
about
in
watching
the
college
playoff
basketball
games
when
they
were
talking
about
March
Madness,
and
they
also
had
some
ads
on
TV
at
that
time
about
using
mulch
and
I
thought.
This
is
simply
mulch
madness.
In
March
we
have
to
tell
people
use
mulch
sparingly,
you
can
use
it,
just
don't
use
it
and
cover
thick
layers
of
your
garden
entirely
with
mulch,
because
most
of
the
bees
in
California
about
seventy
percent,
our
ground
nesters.
They
have
to
use
soil
to
make
their
nests.
E
I
have
to
get
be
able
to
get
to
the
soil.
If
you
have
thick
mulch
all
over
the
place,
especially
redwood
red
wood
shavings
or
even
eucalyptus
big
chunks
of
eucalyptus,
they
can't
get
through
that.
So
there's
two
things
to
do
there,
and
that
is
be
very
careful
about
using
the
compost
material,
the
mulch
material
sparingly
around
just
the
plants
that
are
that
needed
or
hope
that
your
neighbors
are
messy
and
that
they
are
not
mulching.
Then
the
bees
will
have
a
place
to
nest.
E
We
can't
guarantee
that
the
bees
are
going
to
nest
in
your
garden
anyway,
but
the
point
is
you're
making
it
hard
for
them,
and
we
know
that
Gardens
can
also
support
nesting
bees,
so
don't
make
it
too
hard
for
them
by
half
by
having
mulch
everywhere.
We
also
want
to
tell
people
that
you
have
power,
you
have
power
and
you
have
facilities
and
capacities
and
we
don't
have
as
biologists.
So
you
have
ways
to
reach
out
to
your
garden
clubs.
You
have
ways
to
reach
out
to
Native
Plant
Society
chapters
in
your
area.
E
You
have
ways
to
reach
out
to
community
card
communities
and
schools
and
get
things
started
that
are
attractive.
In
fact,
the
schools
is
a
good
place
to
start
doing
some
work
because
kids
love
the
garden
and
they
love
to
see
the
organisms,
and
we
work
with
several
schools
and
the
teachers
and
the
kids
love
to
get
out
and
do
things
we.
A
Have
given
you
many
different
angles
to
look
at
with
respect
to
our
most
precious
resource,
the
water
supply
here
in
California?
It
is
up
to
each
of
us
to
do
what
we
can
to
ensure
we
have
enough
water
for
our
ever-growing
population.
In
case
you
need
even
more
incentive
to
plant
some
drought,
tolerant
plants.
The
San
Bruno
beautification
task
force
gives
awards
to
people
who
improve
their
landscape.
You
can
nominate
yourself
a
neighbor
or
a
friend
annually.
The
nomination
deadline
is
mid-august
and
the
awards
are
given
out
at
a
city
council
meeting
in
October.