Woolly Blue Curls are truly woolly
I love woolly bluecurls Trichostema lanatum. This California native evergreen is native to coastal scrub and chaparral from northern Baja...
Beautiful monarch butterfly
The first of the season to eclose! She started as an egg laid by her mother on one of our potted narrow-leaf milkweed plants. She then...
Sleeping Yellow-Faced Bumble Bee
The first sleeping bee observed in our garden this year! It was very breezy, cool and overcast most of the day, and this yellow-faced...
Lovely California Natives for the Pollinators
Aren't these Ella Nelson buckwheat Eriogonum nudum 'Ella Nelson's Yellow' blossoms lovely? This particular strain of California nude...
Here come the bees
Oh, how I love this time of year when many native and other bees arrive and find nectar sources in the garden! Now that the blackberry...
California Towhee and the India Walking Stick
The other evening I happened to glance out the kitchen window, noticing some movement on our walkway. A California Towhee was hard at...
First Echo Blue Butterfly Sighting
ever! I had never seen an Echo Blue butterfly before, but look who visited our garden yesterday afternoon and lingered for about half an...
Clouds and more clouds
It's been a very cloudy day, and very gray. Only at sunset, when the sun could be seen below the clouds, was it actually sunny. A few...
Lovely Painted Ladies
Painted ladies Vanessa cardui spend a lot of time in our native garden. This one is sipping nectar from Siskiyou Wooly Sunflowers...
House finches at the bird bath
Here is another one of those lucky shots of birds in action in the back yard. The female house finch, on the right, was drinking water...
