First elderberry flowers in the backyard.

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Newly emerged ladybug 🐞

Future native California grapes.🐞🐝

Front yard (mostly) native garden update.

What do you need this morning? Bee butt on Gilia flowers and Baby Blue Eyes.

This morning’s view out the backyard window. The California Lilacs (purple!) are out of control. Mandarin in the foreground. Elderberry to the far left.

A successful section of our vegetative fence line screen. Elderberry (Sambucus mexicana), California Lilac (Ceanothus), and a Mandarin tree. A few years in the making.

European honeybee on a California Lilac (Ceanothus). 🐝

Our front yarden sage plants (first two photos) and all the Ceanothus are now flowering.