In search of milkweed for the hungry caterpillars
As you can imagine, seventeen monarch caterpillars can eat a lot of milkweed. We only had the two narrow leaf milkweed plants....
Life with the monarch caterpillars
Happy monarch caterpillar munching on the base of a milkweed leaf Today three more monarch caterpillars developed in chrysalides. Now we...
Still blooming in the front yard
The California native plants are definitely the survivors in our front yard. After several heat waves, and for this time of year, most of...
Anna's hummingbird discovers the foxglove
The "Polkadot Pippa" foxglove Digitalis hybrid that I planted from a seedling this year in late spring is starting to bloom. It still is...
And even more monarch caterpillars!
So I was just checking the second narrow leaf milkweed plant on the patio, and look what I discovered. More monarch caterpillars! This is...
Bishop's Children dahlia, one of the last of the season
Oh look at this beautiful dahlia, one of the last blossoms of the season on the Bishop's Chldren plant. After several heat waves last...
Blue thimble plant is still blooming
Although much of it is drying up, as are most of our native annuals in the garden, one of the blue thimble plants gilia capitata, is...
mama monarch butterfly?
There is a beautiful monarch butterfly that often visits the patio and front yard. Here she is feeding on nectar in a California Delta...
"Bee Swell" website
Bee Swell http://beeswell.org/ is a wonderful website that promotes awareness of problems our pollinators are facing today. They provide...
The American Lady butterfly
An American Lady butterfly Vanessa virginiensis spent a lot of time on the patio visiting flowers for nectar. I haven't seen it on cosmos...
