Leave the Stems for the Stem-Nesting Bees
Image: Living Prairie Museum Remember that bees hibernate in stems during the winter! More information here https://sites.tufts.edu/polli...
Plant native!
More here https://marinarichie.com/2022/10/17/the-elegance-of-disarray/?fbclid=IwAR3j4twE9GGx8JuBo0xihfj-Hy2JYhSpcbCSBeG_mKa3gi5KtiR0EpCsSqo
Big Pollinator Habitat Project
I haven't posted much within the past month because we moved to another house. After the grueling move to another house (same street, but...
Create a pollinator habitat in your own yard
Getty Images Here is a great article about sustainable landscaping https://theweek.com/feature/briefing/1015382/sustainable-landscapinghe...
Butterfly weather and California Buckwheat
If you stand very still in your garden, even if for five minutes, you can observe so much garden activity that you could otherwise miss....
Summer Long Horned Bees sleeping
Late morning yesterday I discovered these two male Summer Long Horned bees sleeping on a dried flowerhead of one of the Pozo Blue sage...
Mama Monarch encounters Monarch caterpillar
Mama monarch was making the rounds of milkweed plants, laying eggs. Then she encountered a very large monarch caterpillar, minding its...
Just sayin'
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We need more bugs. Lots of bugs.
Check out your native plant society: http://www.ecosystemgardening.com/native-plant-societies-in-north-america.html?fbclid=IwAR1KjBOB-WPF...
Sleeping Bee
This morning there were a lot of damp surfaces in the garden and on porch railings, remainders of our wonderful Bay Area fog. I decided...
