In the garden now
The garden is full of surprises and plants grow lusher, attracting all kinds of insects and birds. The lambs' ears Stachys byzantina...
The monarch caterpillars are here
...and my have they grown within a couple of weeks! As you may recall from a post last month, I noticed a monarch butterfly circling our...
Welcome Fiery Skipper
My first sighting this year of a Fiery Skipper butterfly Hylephila phyleus in the garden this year. This is a female. Earlier in the...
Ivory Banded Digger Bee!
Gotcha! This is the first ivory banded digger bee Anthophora californica I spotted this year in the garden. It most likely is a female,...
The much maligned, beneficial wasp
I took this photo last weekend of a Sapygid Wasp on one of the Yellow Coastal Bush Lupine blossoms Lupinus arboreus . And see the nasty...
More first blooms of the year
It's always so exciting to see the first blooms on a plant, especially when you've been battling voracious slugs throughout the late...
Happy Earth Day!
And here are images from our garden as examples of why Earth Day should be observed every day. Above is a Yellow Faced Bumble Bee Bombus...
Superbloom in our garden
We've got superbloom going on in our garden now. The poppies are growing tall and have such vibrant colors. These California poppies are...
Yellow Faced Bumble Bee in the Ray Hartman ceanothus
Bees are very busy in the garden now. Just look at the pollen basket on this Yellow-Faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii . These are the...
Black Bottomed Bumble Bee and the Silver Bush Lupine blossoms
Look who is visiting the Silver Bush Lupine Lupinus albifrons “Silver Bush Lupine”. It's a Black Bottomed Bumble Bee, and look at the...
