Native Garden
Backyard Elderberries are seeking pollinators.
I just hooked up one more drip line to the little Antelco eZyvalve valve box. I think I’m done for the season reconfiguring our drip system. Time to see how reliable this thing is. I’m not sure what I’ll do with the last two valves. Spares for now. 🌱
Spring mornings in our front yard. Sage and Ceanothus are in full bloom. 💚🌱
Our native California grapes have been very busy over the last week! 🌱
I just installed this Antelco eZyvalve 4 Zone Valve Box. I’m very pleased so far. We’ll see how durable and long lasting it is. I’ll be connecting drip to it. It’s wired to my Rachio Gen 2 irrigation controller.
Ceanothus (California lilac) is magnificently blooming. 🌱
Took a Potensic D58 drone photo today of the backyard (bottom photo) to compare against January 2020 (top photo). Looking real nice. Fun to have unusual views of the yard.
The front yard blue oak has awakened! 🌱
Front yard update: the manzanitas are in full bloom! The poppies are trying to take over. Waiting on the Ceanothus (California lilac) to bloom… they’re the most showy.
We’re craving Manzanita flower blooms in the front yard. Almost there… 🌱
Lesser Gold Finch picking at raisins that are softened from the rain and dew.
Backlit senescing cultivated hybridized California grapes (“Roger’s Red”). So far the Northern Mockingbirds are its prime visitors for raisins. We’ve seen Lesser Gold Finches seemingly drinking water or eating bugs out of the raisin’s nooks and crannies.
The front yard California fuchsias (Epilobium canum) are still flowering and providing forage to the hummingbirds. I really need to cut these back but…. the hummingbirds! And other small pollinators!
Front yard: today and April 19. I cleaned up a lot of it today. This yard of cultivated native plants is so much more rewarding than a lawn.
Pulling out grass from the cultivated native sage is exhausting. At least I’m perfumed with sage now.
Backyard cultivated native elderberries decided summer is over! Yay!
Been a few years since we first wanted to mulch the backyard. Weather got nice so here we go with 10 cu yd of chips!
Here’s some hope that our trio of Scrub Jays will eat our cultivated California native grapes.
The cultivated native plants likely needed some morning water for this California heatwave. It’s like a furnace vent out there.
