Some stem-nesting bees don't emerge until the summer
If you can LEAVE the leaves and stems permanently. Your plants will produce new growth and blooms around the old stems. Click on the...
Pollinators visit between the Rivers of Rain
As you probably have heard or read in the news, California is getting a lot of rain, and a few days ago in our area of Northern...
Now, more than ever, it's important to plant native!
Very alarming development! https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/23/world/flower-self-fertilization-pollinator-decline-scn/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3k...
Who is in the garden?
The garden is now in autumn phase, most of the native plants preparing for winter sleep, but some, including all of the buckwheat, island...
Lovely Autumn Visitors
There are still a lot of insect activity in the back field, especially little butterflies. This Vivid Dancer male was a wonderful...
Summer Long-horned bees still here!
I don't remember seeing Long-Horned bees visiting our current and previous gardens so late in the season. Usually they are gone by the...
Insect Extinction
Illustration by Armando Veve Very important article! Please read https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/01/where-have-all-the-insects...
First time ever Orange Sulfur
About an hour ago, I went out in the heat of the day, 90 degrees F. to check up on wildlife activities in the field of native plants. I...
Gum plants still blooming...
... And there's a lot of activity going on. For example, I took this photo of a Leafcutting bee on one of the gum plant flowers. I didn't...
The Essential Pacific Aster
This is the first year that we have been successful with our Pacific or California asters Symphyotrichum chilense, planted as seedlings....
