Hot spots in the garden
Oh my! We have never had so many Summer Long-horned bees visit any of our previous gardens, as we do now. There are some native plants...
In honor of Pollinator Week, some of our pollinator visitors
So happy to see pollinators enjoying the native habitat we created for them! Top photo is of a Leaf Cutting Bee on a flowerhead of the...
Happy National Pollinator Week!
Even if you don't have a garden, you can plant for pollinators in containers on your porch, balcony, deck, patio, etc. Here is some great...
In a gust of wind...
. . . this little Summer Long-Horned male bee was blown off track onto the petal of a California poppy. It was minding its own business,...
Oh, aren't they adorable
The Umber Skippers Poanes melane have always been the first butterflies to arrive in our gardens every spring. And they did not...
And...the new native habitat is abloom
You can see why I literally like to sit in the garden and watch the plants grow. I don't think I intentionally planted these native...
Black Phoebe and fledgling
For the past week we've been observing Black Phoebe parents and their fledglings around our back field. It's the first time that there...
