California natives still blooming
This lovely plant, Woolly Blue Curls Trichostema lanatum was planted a month ago as a seedling in our mostly native garden area. It is...
Yellow-face Bumble Bee
Now that the oregano plant is blooming, the bees have another food source. Here is a yellow-face bumble bee foraging for nectar and...
Leaf cutter bees and, hey, isn't that a monarch?
The leaf cutter bees are back and I'm seeing them on many flowers in the garden. Here are two leaf cutter bees, one about to land on the...
The mostly native garden in August
As we all know, gardens don't necessarily look their best in the month of August, when most plants are no longer producing blossoms, and...
Busy bees in the breeze
The garden is always full of the buzzing sound of bees. It's such a comforting sound. Above are two leaf cutter bees taking off and...
Female Carpenter Bee and the Indigo Spires Salvia
The Carpenter Bees Xylocopa varipuncta really are attracted to the Indigo Spires salvia blossoms. Indigo Spires salvia produces nectar,...
Yellow-faced Bumble Bee in the Native Patch
Oh how busy these yellow-faced bumble bees Bombus vosnesenskii are in the garden. And also very determined. The one in the image above is...
Sleeping Bees in the Native Patch
It was such a delight to discover sleeping bees around our mostly California garden patch this morning. Seeing these bees at rest on...
Umber Skipper and the Borage leaf
Oh how the umber skippers Poanes melane love to rest on the borage leaves. I recently purchased two borage plants because the borage we...
Longhorn Bee on Cosmic Evolution Coreopsis
This month we seem to have a lot of Longhorn Bee visitors in our mostly California native garden. Based on the regular thick bands on the...
