Hairstreak Butterfly on the Ribes
How delightful to spot in our native plant garden my first hairstreak butterfly Satyrium californica of the year. I was quietly sitting...
In honor of Oceans Day
A great article from Hakai Magazine (this photo is the header for the article): https://www.hakaimagazine.com/videos-visuals/for-oceans-d...
Yellow Faced Bumble Bee visiting Margarita Bop Blossoms
The yellow faced bumble bee bombus vosnesenskii spent time with the Margarita Bop penstemon blossoms. This native plant is only one of...
Bees and Lambs Ears
All of the lambs ears plants that I planted as little seedlings one and a half years ago, started to produce inflorescences a month ago....
Native plants blooming now in our garden
Such a wonderful time of year with plants blooming all over! We have several of these Sisyrinchium bellum ‘North Coast’“Blue-Eyed-Grass”...
Ladybug to the rescue
I noticed this seven dot ladybug on a leaf of one of the Lupinus arboreus "Yellow Coastal Bush Lupine" shrubs. Looking closer I realized...