Happy New Year!
I just returned from my annual trip to Honolulu, Hawaii, to visit my family for the holidays. Always on the lookout for bees and...
Sunshine Blueberry Blossoms
The Sunshine Blueberry plants are producing buds again, and there are a lot. When they start to bloom the bees will be visiting a lot. In...
What is blooming on the patio now?
It's nice to see some plants still blooming now, for example some cosmos plants that are growing from seed that fell from plants growing...
The "Family Jewels" Milkweed tree
As you may remember from a November post, we inherited a large Asclepias physocarpa "Family Jewels Tree" milkweed from a friend whose...
Penstemon 'Hidcote Pink' - Beard Tongue
The Penstemon 'Hidcote Pink' - Beard Tongue is full of blooms right now. It seems to like the cooler weather. Note the nectar guides ...
Pollinator corner
This must be one of the Anna's hummingbirds' favorite places in the garden. Here are Abutilon "Red Tiger", California native Heuchera...
Lovely Red Tiger Abutilon
Oh, isn't the Abutilon Red Tiger blossom lovely... We purchased this plant as a seedling from Spiral Gardens http://www.spiralgardens.org...
Mockingbird's delight
We are so surprised to see that the figs on our potted Black Jack fig tree are actually ripening now. We bought the tree late Spring of...
Anna's hummingbirds
The Anna's hummingbirds are here all year round. Although we used to have a nectar feeder set up for them at our previous home, now that...
Meyer Lemons in the rain
The Meyer Lemon tree in the backyard is thriving in the cool weather. Last Sunday the fruit looked so refreshed in the rain showers,...
