Our friends the leaf cutter bees, again
These days I just see a lot of leaf cutter bees in the backyard, enjoying the cosmos flowers. In the image above a leaf cutter bee is...
monarch caterpillars in the backyard!
Two months ago I purchased a small narrow leaf milkweed plant from Annies Annuals https://www.anniesannuals.com/ Every year for the past...
More food for the bees
We now have another buckwheat plant for the backyard, the lovely Eriogonum fasciculatum Warriner Lytle buckwheat. It is said to be an...
Point Reyes coast, California
On the trail to the beach in Point Reyes, there were many fields of wildflowers, and even in the foggy cool weather, there were bees at...
Bees and the yellow monkey flowers
The money flower plant is growing quite rapidly and producing more and more blossoms. The flowers are very beautiful on this particular...
Bees and the flowers
We do have many native plants for the bees, but they do like roses, too. Here is a honey bee collecting nectar and pollen from one of our...
Swallowtail caterpillars!
At last! I planted a brown fennel plant in a container a couple of years ago, hoping to attract swallowtail butterflies to lay eggs on it....
The naked buckwheat is blooming and attracting local pollinators
The naked buckwheat plant is now in bloom, and for the first time in several years, I observed a hairstreak butterfly in our garden. This...
The Bewick's wren
In the late afternoon a few days ago, looking out the kitchen window we noticed a Bewick's wren in the large container where a Sapphire...
More food for the pollinators
The bees, butterflies and hummingbirds have been sipping at the nectar of the Sapphire Blue salvia plants for the past few weeks. Some of...
