Wet fuzzy plants
Here are more images of plants in the garden after the rain. These are some of the plants with soft hairlike fibers, above Mexican Salvia...
rain drops
More than a day of intermittent soft rain does wonders for plants. Here are some images of the plants in our garden taken yesterday....
New blooms
Red salvia blossoms At this time of year most plants are dormant, but suddenly, after the rain last week, there are new blooms in the...
Borage sprouting in the garden
I don't remember seeing borage sprouting in patches like this before! I think this proves that even in prolonged drought conditions some...
Backyard treasures in the rain
Raindrops on nasturtium leaf Yesterday morning we enjoyed very light rain for about an hour. At first I thought that the morning fog must...
More from the Berkeley Botanical Garden
And here's a very familiar butterfly - the umber skipper poanes melane . These butterflies habitat consists of desert foothills,...
At the Berkeley Botanical Garden
It's been a while since we visited the Berkeley Botanical Garden in Tilden Park, so it was exciting to see some pollinators that don't...
September food for bees
California carpenter bee female xylocopa californica on Sapphire salvia. It's taking extra vigilance in this heat to keep the bee food...
A female wool carder bee at work
I was very fortunate to observe a female wool carder bee anthidium fabricius collecting fibers from the underside of Lamb's Ear leaves....
At the University of California Native Bee Garden
Honey bee on a sunflower Yesterday we went to a talk and guided tour of the Urban Bee Lab Experimental Garden in Berkeley. Docent Carol...
