First blooms in the native garden
Aren't these California rose chiffon poppies lovely? I've never grown them before, and am so excited to see how this plant is thriving in...
The native plant garden now
Every morning before before getting ready to leave for work and every evening when I return home, I always check our native plant garden...
Yellow-faced Bumble Bee in the Margarita Bop
It seems like whenever I am in our newly created native plant garden area, I always see Yellow-Faced Bumble Bees Bombus vosnesenskii ....
Honey Bees and Lavender
Now that the lavender plants are blooming again the bees have more nectar sources. Hummingbirds feed on the nectar of these plants. Above...
Cosmos blossoms for the bees
This year we have at least twice as many cosmos plants growing on the patio as well as in the front yard. I'm looking forward to seeing...
Honey bee and the borage plant
I have always wondered how often plants produce nectar, especially plants that are constantly visited by bees. Take borage plants for...
A honey bee and nasturtium flowers
On a very breezy afternoon this past weekend I observed this honey bee hovering around the nasturtium flowers. It would try to land on a...
Anemones from the Farmers Market
I just love buying flowers from the Farmers Market to have indoors in vases. These lovely anemones are from Blue Heron Farms...
My favorite place to buy California native plants
This three-day weekend was quite a gardening extravaganza. I planned to buy a "couple" of seedlings from Annies Annuals...
front lawn to native plant garden
And now an update on the progress of the front lawn transformation. The soil is slowly turning to large chunks of hard clay, and the lawn...
