Honey Bee visiting the patio
A honey bee visited mainly the lavender and rosemary blossoms this weekend. Our rosemary shrub, growing in a container, is full of...
Salvia shrubs in the front yard
Some of the salvia shrubs are doing so well now. The above image is of a blossom on the Mexican Bush Sage salvia leucantha that actually...
California Delta Sunflowers blooming
I bought three California Delta Sunflower Helianthus annuus seedlings in October thinking they would be dormant until the summer months....
Cuphea "Minnie Mouse"
Both Cuphea "Minnie Mouse" shrubs are thriving in the patio planter beds. They are currently each 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 feet in height and width,...
Tidy Tips and the Flower Fly
We bought four Tidy Tips Layia platyglossa seedlings in October. Tidy Tips are native California plants, considered inconsistent or...
Ray Hartman Ceanothus shrub is blooming
The Ray Hartman Ceanothus shrub is starting to bloom! This is so exciting for me because we just planted it as a four inch seedling...
Gold Crowned Sparrow in the Meyer Lemon Tree
The Gold Crowned Sparrows are definitely sticking around. This one perched on the Meyer Lemon tree branch for at least five minutes. It...
Honey Bee visiting on a cloudy day
While I was cleaning up around the patio today I was pleasantly surprised to hear buzzing close by. Sure enough, it was a honey bee. It...
The olives are ripening
Our potted olive plant is producing a lot of olives, and they are ripening now. If I was very ambitious and had the time for curing them,...
Meyer Lemons bring cheerful color on a gray day.
The Meyer Lemon tree is producing a lot of fruit. It looks like it grew quite a bit since a year ago. The organic fertilizer and the rain...
