Illumination by the last rays of the sun
Ah, the magic that those last rays cast upon the garden. Here, the Ray Hartman ceanothus with Berzerkeley salvia at its base.
After the rain
After some several days of very welcome rainy weather, the flowers and foliage are refreshed. One of the first blooming California...
Download this Poster and Spread the Word
You can download for free this beautiful poster by Nora Wildgen! Put it up in your office, windows, local garden store or school and...
Silence
is the sound of extinction. Acclaimed environmental philosopher and nature writer Kathleen Dean Moore has written a new collection of...
Native Garden Observations
Spring is such a magical time. All those dormant plants that you're never sure you'll ever see again suddenly wake up and rise. Here is a...
Ooh, how about this sunset?
So interesting how a sunset can look quite ordinary at first. Then you happen to look out the window twenty minutes later. And see this....
How Suburbs could help save Biodiversity
Credit: William Leaman Alamy Please read this article from Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-suburb...
Yellow Faced Bumble Bee and the Verbena De La Mina
This is the first time I've ever seen the Yellow-faced bumble bee on the native Verbena De La Mina shrub. In the past years I've only...
Golden-crowned Sparrow visiting
A wonderful golden-crowned sparrow was willing to remain perched on a branch while I photographed it. I was testing my new telephoto lens...
Non-Native Plants are Contributing to Global Insect Decline
Excellent article about the importance of native plants. Enzo Pérès-Labourdette /Yale E360 https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-non-native-...
