Tag: bumblebees

• Late July and the Woolly-Pod Milkweed

  

  Every year in late July, I hike along Vista Trail in O’Neill Regional Park to observe two healthy populations of wild milkweed growing along the trail. Last year at this time, the woolly-pod milkweed (Asclepias eriocarpa) plants were in full flower and bustling with bumblebee activity and hungry caterpillars.

  E. Wallace

  August 3, 2021

  monarch butterflies

  bumblebees, milkweed, western monarchs

• Garden While Spring is Here

  

  Tree of Life Nursery in San Juan Capistrano and Roger’s Gardens in Newport Beach are open and have free buckwheat plants available for pick-up (while supplies last). When you go to pick up your free buckwheat, consider buying a few extra native plants to install in your garden this spring. Tree of Life Nursery is […]

  E. Wallace

  April 9, 2020

  Native plant gardens

  birds, buckwheat, bumblebees, Nature

• 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 […]

  E. Wallace

  March 10, 2020

  buckwheat, Nature

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