What a swirl of colors! This is our garden’s third spring and it’s gorgeous. I just uploaded 32 new photos of our garden including Coast sunflower, Western blue flax, Toyon, Lady bugs, Bees, Tidy Tips, Onions, Monkey flowers and more. All with botanical names and information.
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See the spring bloom…
See my Photo-guide to California native plants…
I’ve never been much of a morning person, but ever since I’ve been in this relationship with my native plant garden I look forward to the occasional sunrise. I enjoy that moment when the rosy golden rays kiss the leaves, the flowers unfold with the growing warmth, the birds talk among themselves, and the pollinators are often still in bed.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not up every morning at dawn. But there are some days my garden calls to me “Debbie, come see all the new wonderful things that happened since yesterday” and I can’t resist. I’m up, and in the garden, cup of green tea or warm almond milk in hand.
Tell me about your relationship with your garden.
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This photo is from my home garden. The beautiful flowering plant – which was mislabeled in the nursery – is probably Ribes malvaceum ‘Montara Rose’ and blooms from December to mid-Spring.
It all started a few weeks ago when I saw a call to action on Twitter “Native Plant Lovers Unite!” As things happen, on the same day I was reading a very good blog about native plants, Native Plant Wildlife Gardening. The author, Karyl, is in Georgia. Georgia?!? Suddenly the lights went on! What the heck is happening in the rest of the country in regards to native plants? Could there a native plant movement? If so, how close is this movement to being mainstream? All kinds of questions started swimming around in my brain. I got so excited that I started looking up native plant societies state by state.
Well the answers to my questions surprised me…
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I can’t wait! ♥
