Chris Houston
@chrishouston.bsky.social
California native plant enthusiast and gardener. Bird lover. Aspiring urban farmer. I like to go paddling in my kayak. Why am I a Padres fan? He/him/his
This weekend while it was snowing elsewhere I planted 2 papaya, a mango, a pineapple guava, a pink guava, two figs, a cherry of the Rio Grande and 10 ice cream bean trees. I didn’t get to plant my apricot bare root or avocado. Next weekend. 🌱 #gardening
January 26, 2026 at 11:58 PM
This weekend while it was snowing elsewhere I planted 2 papaya, a mango, a pineapple guava, a pink guava, two figs, a cherry of the Rio Grande and 10 ice cream bean trees. I didn’t get to plant my apricot bare root or avocado. Next weekend. 🌱 #gardening
One of our resident Great Horned Owls is on top of our chimney
January 25, 2026 at 5:38 AM
One of our resident Great Horned Owls is on top of our chimney
Stick leveled up in a couple years.
January 24, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Stick leveled up in a couple years.
Just a PSA for San Diego people, Armstrong Garden Centers have amazing deals on bare root fruit trees this weekend. $22.99 for a few different low chill apples, peaches, nectarines, an apple, an apricot and maybe a couple other things. I picked up a Blenheim apricot.
January 23, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Just a PSA for San Diego people, Armstrong Garden Centers have amazing deals on bare root fruit trees this weekend. $22.99 for a few different low chill apples, peaches, nectarines, an apple, an apricot and maybe a couple other things. I picked up a Blenheim apricot.
Just a PSA for San Diego people, Armstrong Garden Centers have amazing deals on bare root fruit trees this weekend. $22.99 for a few different low chill apples, peaches, nectarines, an apple, an apricot and maybe a couple other things. I picked up a Blenheim apricot.
January 23, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Just a PSA for San Diego people, Armstrong Garden Centers have amazing deals on bare root fruit trees this weekend. $22.99 for a few different low chill apples, peaches, nectarines, an apple, an apricot and maybe a couple other things. I picked up a Blenheim apricot.
I came back from a weekend trip and found this at my front door from a friend and boy do I feel seen.
January 22, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I came back from a weekend trip and found this at my front door from a friend and boy do I feel seen.
I get that it’s just incel stuff but also that looks fucking exactly like Lara Croft
January 16, 2026 at 6:52 PM
I get that it’s just incel stuff but also that looks fucking exactly like Lara Croft
What a bunch of hacks. Everyone knows it isn’t Lara Croft if she’s… wearing sunglasses I guess?
January 16, 2026 at 6:46 PM
What a bunch of hacks. Everyone knows it isn’t Lara Croft if she’s… wearing sunglasses I guess?
RIP disgusting white guava
January 12, 2026 at 4:34 PM
RIP disgusting white guava
Saturday as I was pruning and stripping leaves from my deciduous fruit trees I thought about how weird it would be to not buy a single bare root fruit tree this year. By Sunday morning I had removed a guava and decided to swap it out for a standard Santa Rosa plum.
#gardening 🌱
#gardening 🌱
January 12, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Saturday as I was pruning and stripping leaves from my deciduous fruit trees I thought about how weird it would be to not buy a single bare root fruit tree this year. By Sunday morning I had removed a guava and decided to swap it out for a standard Santa Rosa plum.
#gardening 🌱
#gardening 🌱
I don’t know what they’re talking about and I’m not going to go check but I’m glad these two are having fun over on padres twitter joking around with the child p *rn bot!
January 8, 2026 at 10:27 PM
I don’t know what they’re talking about and I’m not going to go check but I’m glad these two are having fun over on padres twitter joking around with the child p *rn bot!
I fixed your typo for you, senator
January 7, 2026 at 11:01 PM
I fixed your typo for you, senator
We stopped by the Hollywood Walk of Fame on the way home from a Universal excursion and I found the only one that matters.
December 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
We stopped by the Hollywood Walk of Fame on the way home from a Universal excursion and I found the only one that matters.
Panorama of a pretty spectacular sunrise this morning
December 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Panorama of a pretty spectacular sunrise this morning
Ok San Diego mammal and poor-quality video experts. Who can tell me what I’m looking at in this nighttime video one of my cameras picked up last night. Raccoon without a tail maybe?
December 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Ok San Diego mammal and poor-quality video experts. Who can tell me what I’m looking at in this nighttime video one of my cameras picked up last night. Raccoon without a tail maybe?
You can see whales going by from up there every day.
December 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
You can see whales going by from up there every day.
Time to listen to the single greatest Christmas record of all time (I will be accepting no rebuttals)
December 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Time to listen to the single greatest Christmas record of all time (I will be accepting no rebuttals)
Our cats are 3 now and we put up a fake tree with just lights and a garland. Things were going surprisingly great until this morning.
December 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Our cats are 3 now and we put up a fake tree with just lights and a garland. Things were going surprisingly great until this morning.
This is the most recent Instagram image posted by a local Southern California native plant grower and this sucks so much and really bums me out.
They were purchased by someone with private equity ties a few years ago and I guess this was the inevitable outcome.
They were purchased by someone with private equity ties a few years ago and I guess this was the inevitable outcome.
December 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is the most recent Instagram image posted by a local Southern California native plant grower and this sucks so much and really bums me out.
They were purchased by someone with private equity ties a few years ago and I guess this was the inevitable outcome.
They were purchased by someone with private equity ties a few years ago and I guess this was the inevitable outcome.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
You get one wrist band for every kettle bell you purchase
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
You get one wrist band for every kettle bell you purchase
San Diego county turning solidly blue in the last decade has been a really nice surprise.
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
San Diego county turning solidly blue in the last decade has been a really nice surprise.