Flowers

    Gilias were the first annual flowers to bloom in our yard. Can you believe these are just as or more aggressive at spreading compared to poppies? 🌱

    purple round gilia flowers

    First bloom for our Valencia orange tree. About three weeks early compared to 2020 & 2021. 🌱🌳

    Honey bee approaching a nectarine flower. 🌳🌱

    Our New Century Asian Pear tree, seeing as it’s already showy as heck, will be glorious in a few years. 🌱🌳

    many white flowers on new century asian pair tree

    Here’s three more flowering cultivated native plants from the front yard: sage, then manzanita, then western red bud.

    light purple sage flowersbell shaped manzanita flowers with a foraging european honey beepink western red bud flowers amongst seed pods

    … and here’s a lovely jumping spider hanging out on a manzanita leaf that’s surrounded by a creeping sage bush. Some white manzanita flowers show through the leaves.

    a hairy jumping spider on a smooth manzanita leaf.

    Sure feels & looks like spring in our front yard. I think this is an assassin bug on a newly blooming Ceanothus. 🌱

    assassin bug atop purple Ceanothus flowers

    …. and here is our new (this year) New Century Asian Pear about ready to burst. 🌱🌳

    white flower buds

    Our Nectarine is very close to blooming. This is its second year in the ground here. 🌱🌳

    pink tip on a nectarine flower bud

    Almond bloom season is already upon us πŸ˜’. You can’t avoid it in most of California.

    The front yard Manzanitas (1st photo) and Coyote Bushes (2nd) are flowering. Next up are the Ceanothus bushes, then the Elderberries. 🌱

    Our front yard cultivated native fuchsias are still blooming. All summer, with minimal added water, and into winter. Amazing plants.

    Chocolate chip with walnut cookie connections.

    A Feijoa sellowiana of ours got very stressed this summer because of a clogged irrigation emitter. It is now flowering out of season. A nice surprise.

    Our street is nicely obscured from the front yard by cultivated native California plants. They rarely get watered but has been more frequent the past two summers. California buckwheat is showy now with its rust colors and white flowers.

    Preying Mantis in our California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum). They sure do keep two eyes on you.

    Sunflower seeds ready to be eaten by backyard birds. Bet the scrub jays will cache them all.

    sunflower seeds in a dried out sunflower head.

    California fuchsias still blooming, and that makes our hummingbirds very pleased.

    blooming red fuchsia flowershummingbird hovering above our driveway

    Korean Fried Cauliflower.

    Volunteer sunflower from this morning. It took advantage of an emitter and I’m a sucker for known flowering volunteers 🌱

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