Monarch caterpillars munching
At last! I haven't posted anything about monarch caterpillars this year, until now. Monarch mamas have been visiting the garden often...
Monarch butterfly visiting Delta sunflower
This is always the best part of growing sunflowers, especially native sunflowers. A visit from a monarch butterfly! As I mentioned in a...
The California Delta Sunflowers are in bloom
The California Delta sunflowers are now in bloom. Every year I plant seedlings that I buy from Annies Annuals https://www.anniesannuals.c...
Leafcutting Bee carrying a big Piece of Leaf
Leafcutting Bee female with the piece it cut from a leaf, resting on a yew hedge From the corner of my eye, I caught some movement in...
More buckwheat!!!
Yellow-faced bumble bee flying around Ella Nelson's Yellow Nude buckwheat With our ongoing drought conditions, I've come to the...
Pokeweed?
We have a tall pokeweed growing next to our native garden. It planted itself there, probably seeds deposited by a bird, a couple of years...
Gray Hairstreak Butterfly
Skippers and other little native butterflies like to lay their eggs on our Seacliff Eriogonum parvifolium and Ella Nelson's Yellow...
Ecological Pest Management
Let invertebrates such as ladybugs get rid of your garden pests, instead of using pesticides. Here a Seven Spot Ladybug is at work on one...
Yellow-Faced Bumble Bees at work
We definitely seem to have a lot of Yellow-Faced Bumble Bees Bombus vosnesenskii in the garden. They are so cute. Here is a rear view of...
Leaf Cutting Bee and the Echinacea blossom
Last autumn was the first time I planted a coneflower seedling in a large container in our backyard. The seedling grew a couple of inches...
