Our cherry tree’s super close **together** buds are opening up! Soon flower buds will rapidly drop on stems, bloom, and then by late May... ripe cherries! If the birds don’t get them first.
Birds
Experimenting with our first bird feeding station. Suet with seed for a variety of birds.
Our Elderberries coming back after they scorched in the summer heat last year. Resilient native plants! The birds loved the berries late summer.
Front yarden update: California Buckwheat’s dead flowers are showy red and the Blue Oak has decided it is winter. California fuchsias still have flowers for the hummingbirds. Front of the house illuminated by mostly bug friendly amber lights. 🐞🐝
Birds gorging on sweet basil seeds.
The birds are gorging on seeds in our front and backyard gardens. So happy to provide them sustenance rather than a lawn desert!
Front yard native plants currently in bloom: Epilobium canum (California Fuchsia; red flowers adored by hummingbirds) and Baccharis pilularis (Coyote Bush; small, pleasantly scented white flowers loved by small pollinators).
Epilobium canum (California Fuchsia) keeping pollinators, including hummingbirds, happy.
Anna’s Hummingbirds fighting over native fuchsias!
