Native milkweed plants awakening
Oh, don't you love Spring? I've been monitoring our native milkweed pots for the past few weeks, wondering if the milkweed plants that...
Native bees out and about
Here they are! A Black Tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus approaches a cluster of Ray Hartman ceanothus blossoms. Note the yellow...
Spring is here
Birds are singing and building nests, while some of the native bees are emerging from their nests. Fortunately our native plants are...
Hooray for native bees
This post is from the Facebook page ‘the bees in your back yard’. Free online book about our native bees HERE:...
First blooms of the year in the native patch
It's that time of year for some of the native plants to start to bloom, especially after the December rains and a few unusually warm...
Ceanothus in bloom
All the rain showers in late December resulted in this loveliness. the Ray Hartman ceanothus and one of the lavender shrubs in the...