Native Garden
For Earth Day, bees on the elderberry and the avocado.
This HUGE bumble bee really wants the Toyon flowers to open up! Been buzzing around for several minutes.
Today’s Clarkias and Poppies.
First bloom of our backyard California wild roses (Rosa Californica)!
Snakefly hunting insects on a bed of elderberry flowers.
Yarrow is now in bloom and the carpet beetles are gorging themselves on pollen.
Seen at lunch: iNaturalist guesses this is a Leafhopper Assassin bug on our California grape. Assassins in our back yard! A good bug!
The swarm in our little blue oak is getting a new home.
When your yards are a pollen and nectar paradise, this can happen. Time to get in touch with a local apiary!
Bee butt on a front yard Gilia 🐝
First elderberry flowers in the backyard.
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Newly emerged ladybug 🐞
Future native California grapes.🐞🐝
Front yard (mostly) native garden update.
What do you need this morning? Bee butt on Gilia flowers and Baby Blue Eyes.
This morning’s view out the backyard window. The California Lilacs (purple!) are out of control. Mandarin in the foreground. Elderberry to the far left.
A successful section of our vegetative fence line screen. Elderberry (Sambucus mexicana), California Lilac (Ceanothus), and a Mandarin tree. A few years in the making.
European honeybee on a California Lilac (Ceanothus). 🐝
Our front yarden sage plants (first two photos) and all the Ceanothus are now flowering.
