Amazing photo! 😍

Deer plant dancing in the wind. 💛🌱💚 #californianativeplants #grownatives #nativeplants

Your penstemon are huge! Everything looks beautiful. 💚💚💚

They really are! I’ve also found they sprout and do well in pretty much every part of our yard!

A tall stem of coral-colored flowers with white stamens. In the background are garden beds edged with red bricks.

Several stems of bright pink/purple flowers with white stamens. In the background are a brick column, a black iron gate, a neighboring house, and leaves and woodchips in a garden bed.

It’s Elegant Clarkia’s time to shine! Check out these beauties and find out who else is blooming in my #californianativeplants project — all in my new blog post. 🥰 💚🌱💚
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I think until the pods are dried? Last year, I just kept checking them each day. But it’s easy to miss them because they launch the seeds very effectively when they’re ready!

Photo of a large stalk covered in green seed pods. There are two adjacent stalks that have purple columns of flowers, and there is a mass of finger-like green leaves.

Looks like next spring will be another Lupinepalooza. SO many seed pods! 😁💚🌱💜 #Californianativeplants #nativeplants #grownatives

That blue is amazing!

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Six on Saturday Hello, friends! It’s a chilly morning here in Northern California. I’ve got a warm cat on my lap, another one curled up next to me, and hot coffee in my favorite mug. Time for a (mostly…

Find out why I ran outside to scold a sparrow, which plant came back from the dead, where I found a love note, and more in this week’s #sixonsaturday post on my #CaliforniaNativePlant blog. 😊💚🌱🌳 #nativeplants #grownatives

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Thank you!!! 🥰

Photo of one small, deep red flower blooming, surrounded by narrow green leaves, reddish stems, an unopened flower bud, and yellow and white flowers in the background.

Seeing everyone’s photos and posts about #CaliforniaNativePlants makes me so happy! Thank you all for sharing! 🥰💚🌱 Here’s my newest bloom today - Red Monkeyflower.

Who wouldn’t want to??? 🥰

Not much other than sow native wildflower seeds! I did buy a couple of monkeyflower plants, but the rest are from seeds. Though I was obsessively weeding as the seedlings were growing. 😊 Just wanted to give them the best chance possible for survival.

Photo of a small patch of yellow, yellow and white, orange, and purple wildflowers.

A small patch of sunny yellow flowers.

I can’t stop marveling over the miracle of this wee meadow in the yard. Two years ago, nothing grew in this spot! I love staring at it and watching the pollinators come and go. 💚🌱🐝 #californianativeplants #nativeplants #grownatives

A single Tidy Tips flower, which has many narrow petals that are mostly bright yellow, except for white at the end of each petal. The plant has a thin stem and leaves. The dirt is visible, as are a few other small yellow flowers preparing to bloom.

A little rumpled, but look who popped open to say hello! 😊 Good morning, Tidy Tips! 💚🌱💛 #californianativeplants #grownatives #nativeplants

Six on Saturday I recently learned about the Six on Saturday gardening meme (see Garden Ruminations’ participant guide) and thought it would be a good way to get back into the habit of posting. There’s…

My first #sixonsaturday post! Finally getting back into my blog and sharing some happy things from my #CaliforniaNativePlants project. Come take a look! 💚🌱💚 #plantnatives #nativeplants
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I was surprised to see the previous name on Calscape. ☹️

Purple Innocence (Collinsia heterophylla) flower. Also called “Purple Chinese Houses.” Macro photo of a half-bloomed flower with white petals on the top part of each bloom and purple petals on the bottom. The leaves are light green, long and pointed.

First Purple Innocence flower! Doesn’t it seem like there’s always one plant willing to be brave and bloom first, even when all the others are still days away? 💜💚🌱💚💜 #californianativeplants #nativeplants #springflowers #plantnatives

This is what I aspire to! 😊

It’s often so windy here that I can’t get a photo that isn’t blurry, so I’ll take a quick video instead. I like how video captures the plants’ movement. 😊

‘Tis a bit windy today, but a few more blooms came out to say hello! First up: Monkeyflower 💚🌱💚#californianativeplants #gardening #nativeplants

Wow — the aster is really surprising this time of year! All are beautiful!

They look great! 💚💚💚

Next up in my first blooms: California Goldfields. Hello, lovely one! Soon, you’ll be surrounded by friends. 💛🌱💚 #californianativeplants #nativeplants

Love this!

First Lacy Phacelia bloom! #californianativeplants #nativeplants #plantnatives

That would be great! I’m actually in Sonoma often right now for the CA Naturalist certification program, so I will definitely ping you! 😊

Growing California native plants in containers class! Nicholas Hummingbird is offering the class on April 7th from 7-9 pm (via Zoom). He’s an Indigenous native plant expert & activist. You will learn SO much! Find him on IG at california_native_plants.
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Yay!!! Congratulations! 😊