Category: Monarchs and Milkweed

• My Interview with the LA Times

  

  Jeanette Marantos, garden reporter for the LA Times, called me in mid-February as I was returning home from a landscape restoration project I work on in Trabuco Canyon. Marantos asked me to provide a short list of the best native plants Southern Californians can plant in their home landscapes, and also why it is important…

  OCCNPS

  March 10, 2020

  Buckwheat, Gardening with Native Plants, Monarchs and Milkweed, Vera’s Gardens in Trabuco Canyon, White Sage

  birds, Buckwheat, bumblebees, california lilac, la times, manzanita, native plants, Nature

• Where Do Western Monarchs Spend the Spring?

  

  Despite the fact that Western Monarch butterflies are universally loved, their numbers have plummeted in recent years. What can you do to help? Join the Western Monarch Mystery Challenge–a campaign created to increase awareness of locations where Western Monarchs spend the spring in California after leaving their coastal California overwintering sites. If you see a…

  OCCNPS

  February 19, 2020

  Buckwheat, Gardening with Native Plants, Monarchs and Milkweed

  milkweed, Monarch, native plants, western monarchs