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? 🌱

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. 🌱🌳

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

… 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.

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

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

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

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