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Mistaken Identity, or “No, It’s Not Marijuana!”
A fantastic plant for attracting butteries and other pollinators (to flowers) and birds (to seeds), Bidens coronata is an enthusiastic self-sowing annual. Photo (c) Prairie Moon Nursery...
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How to Attract Pollinators to Your Garden
Anna’s Hummingbird visits Alpine Cleveland Sage, photo credit Las Pilitas Nursery I put on my walking shoes and hit the pavement last weekend in Mar Vista, Southern California, where a Native Plant...
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Where Golden Ornaments Adorn Sycamore Trees
Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) Photo by Las Pilitas Nursery A glint of gold caught my eye from up in the top of a young Sycamore Tree. “Click click” I heard a familiar call and looked closer....
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Leaf-cutter Bee Life Cycle
A surprise package Some of the most interesting things happen in our beautiful wildlife gardens when we least expect them. On this particular day my brother and mom were moving some bricks to build a...
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Succulents for Pollinators
Dudleya pulverulenta colony on I-78 East, San Marcos, in San Diego, Photo © Chris Hendrickson Many native cacti & succulents are beneficial to pollinators. Previously, I have written about choices...
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Drone & Pop!
Bumble Bee Drawn to Partridge Pea So I walk out to my native plant plot one morning in early August. What is that droning sound I hear? I listen for a while and then it was obvious! The section of my...
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Butterflies are Free
Nectar sources such as Bidens alba are great to attract adult butterflies such as this Gulf Fritillary Butterfly Planting beautiful and aromatic nectar sources is an easy way to attract adult...
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Maplicious
For most of the year the red maple (Acer rubrum) is an overlooked and underappreciated tree. It is native throughout the eastern US, from the South to the Mid-Atlantic and beyond. It hops right over...
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Pollinator Week: More than Bees and Butterflies
Unknown Tachinid fly on Camphorweed (Pluchea baccharis) Next week, June 15-22, 2015 is National Pollinator Week. As we all know “butterfly gardens” are the rage. Of course everyone will set out to...
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