Of course I talk to the bees that buzz around my yard. What smart person wouldn’t? 🌱 #Bloomscrolling #CaliforniaNativePlant 🐝
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Redwood Sorrel (Oxalis oregana) blooming amongst leaves of Pacific Bleeding Heart (Dicentra formosa) and Beach Strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis)
Calochortus ‘Cupido’ bulbs blooming amongst leaves of California Golden Violet (Viola pedunculata)
SF Wallflower (Erysimum franciscanum) used to grow all over this city
Ribes sanguineum glutinosum 'Spring Showers' blooming and backlit by the February sun.
Let’s see what’s in bloom in my small coastal #CaliforniaNativePlant garden (Feb 2026)
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Sun and shadow play on two red flowers with spreading strap-like petals, a couple of tight, oval flower buds, and large bright green leaves.
Day 21 #ArtAdventCalendar
Calycanthus occidentalis/Spicebush is one of my favorite shrubs
#Bloomscroll #CaliforniaNativePlant #Photography
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Psammophora longifolia Unlocking the Secrets of "Sand Loving Long-leaf": A Guide to Propagating Psammophora longifolia
"Psammophora longifolia" might seem like a mouthful, but this intriguing plant, comm... #CaliforniaNativePlant #droughttolerant #gardening #longleafsandverbena #Propagation #Psammop
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Alpine Sage has just started to bloom in my garden right about the time the Pozo Blue is starting to fade.
Celestial Blue Sage is probably my favorite of all the sages because the colors are so rich.
Pozo Blue has been flowering for months now and smells amazing. It grew 5'x7' in 1 year from 4" pot.
Salvia pachyphylla is in it's second year in my garden and still hanging in. I heard that it's hard to grow in the bay area.
A few of the flowers from my #CaliforniaNativePlant garden that are blooming this week. These are the parents of the 'Celestial Blue' Hybrid according to Las Pilitas.
www.laspilitas.com/nature-of-ca...
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Southern coastal bushmallow (Malacothamnus fasciculatus) also known as Chaparral mallow. #CaliforniaNativePlant
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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
puttingdownroots.blog/2025/04/12/s...
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The #californianativeplant society #santamonicamountains chapter took a hike through one of CA's most toxic Superfund sites, the Santa Susana Field Lab, against our advice. #canativeplants #socalnativeplants #hiking #socalwildlife #lahikes #lahiking #losangeles #toxicsantasusana
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the blue/purple/white flowers of an arroyo lupine in bloom.
gilia tricolor begins to bloom
California native sages, wildflowers, grasses, and goldfields rubbing elbows in the garden. everything is green and lush from the recent rains.
a few start of spring moments from the #californianativeplant garden 🌱
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Many purple Shooting Stars (Primula clevelandii), a fabulous early season Californian native wildflower, on display in the shade of a bush.
A shower of Shooting Stars in the shade. The early season wildflowers are putting on a show in Henry Coe State Park.
#wildflowers #californianativeplant #photography
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On day 8 of my #nativeplant posts, here is the brilliantly crimson Hollyleaf Redberry (Endotropsis crocea subsp. ilicifolia), another #californianativeplant. #naturephotography #berries #photography
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Day 3 of posting #nativeplants, today's #wildflower is a Hillside Woodland Star (Lithophragma heterophyllum), a delicate #californianativeplant.
#naturephotography #photography
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American Robin - Santiago Oaks Regional Park, Orange County CA. #birds #americanrobin #orangecountyca #santiagooaksregionalpark #toyon #toyonberries #toyonberry #nativeplant #californianativeplant
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White sage I just barely planted a couple weeks ago (still needs mulch). I am in love with California Native plants. I know nobody will see this but I don’t care! Look at this thing! Can’t wait until it takes off in a year or two. #californianativeplant
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New to me and now another #californianativeplant 🌱to look for while hiking 🚶. #ghosttrees #redwoods #sequoia #NorCal #california
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Lupines in purple, a complicated class, nitrogen fixing pioneer plants, grazing food stock for animals, but others quite toxic due to alkaloids (especially to sheep). In Italy (and the eastern Mediterranean and Mideast) lupini are prized as a pickled snack but are cooked in other ways and ground into flours too. And of course gardeners adore them whether natives or imports, for their flowers, for the butterflies and bees, and for what they bring to the soil, naturally.

#SFSidewalkHaiku #161
One pretty bonnet
seeding soil with nitrogen,
hosting butterflies
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 07/28/24 📷 05/07/24 🌱🌿🍽️ ☠️🚶🌇 #Haiku #lupine #californianativeplant #SanFrancisco #California
Which native variety? Deeply colored vs. the more common lavender of our coast - but happy here.
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A pink cluster of flowers marking another season for native wild onions. Once an important native food.

#gardentour #Haiku #3
Fireworks flaring in
low grass Marking layered life
Survival rations
©️Rick Ehling ✍️07/08/24 📷 04/27/24
One Leaf #Allium🌱🌿 another #californianativeplant from the garden tour of @curiouselder.bsky.social who is quiet currently but worth a follow.
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Phacelia tanacetifolia, 🌱🌿a #californianativeplant in the borage family. Native to the southern and more arid parts of California. She was new to me courtesy of the garden @curiouselder.bsky.social. Now seeing her everywhere. Such a pretty and complex plant with fern like leaves and a taller stemming structure and then these delicate clusters that sprout from “teeth”.

#SFSidewalkHaiku #151
Tough yet tender, this
bit of leather and lace For
butterflies a-race
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 06/20 📷 04/27/2024
#Phacelia tanacetifolia, 🌱🌿a #californianativeplant in the borage family, aka lacy phacelia, tansy-leaf phacelia, blue #tansy, purple tansy or fiddleneck.
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Field Bindweed climbing across the grasses, still green, in Bernal Heights

#SFSidewalkHaiku #149
Early climbers, dance
between light’s show Dawn and Dusk
curtain raised, lowered
©️Rick Ehling ✍️ 06/08/2024 📷05/06/2024. 🌱🌿🚶🌇 #fieldbindweed #BernalHeights #SanFrancisco #California #Haiku #bindweed #californianativeplant
Our native morning glories, beloved by pollinators.
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The most poetically named Clarkia amoena, “Farewell to Spring” blooming as it does annually in green then drying grass, from British Columbia to just south of San Francisco.

#SFSidewalkHaiku #147
Farewell to Spring in
fields and sunsets, blush before
drying, drifting, gone
©️ Rick Ehling ✍️ 05/17/2024📷 05/13/2024 🌱🌿🚶🌇 #Clarkia #farewelltospring #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California #californianativeplant #PinkWednesday #Haiku
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Fried Egg Plant or Matilija Poppy, a california native plant from the warmer South putting on her naming show. The seeds require flash heat or wildfires to germinate.

© Rick Ehling 📷 05/26/2024 🌱🌿🚶🌇 #SundayYellow #laidleystreet #GlenPark #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California. Look at that yoke. #FriedEggPlant #MatilijaPoppy #californianativeplant An import here in the North, still happy. The seeds require flash heat or wildfires to germinate.
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#Violet. #violaadunca or #westerndogviolet - more pink than most. There’s also a white form native to #Yosemite Valley. Edible too.

Backyard #Haiku
Lettuce leafs for moths
or mammals Then dessert too
as flowers follow
©️Rick Ehling ✍️ 05/26 📷 04/27/2024
🌱🌿 #V is for #Violet. In the #californianativeplant #garden of @curiouselder.bsky.social #California. Likely #violaadunca or #westerndogviolet
Edible too. #FoodFriday 🍽️🍜
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Lewisia cotyledon, cliffmaids, a Northern California flower that extends into southern Oregon, favoring rocky lower mountain habitat. Half are evergreen and with a thick taproot (that was harvested and eaten by Native Americans) from which the fleshy rosette leaves emerge and then flowers from spring into summer, in shades from pale pink to tropical sunset. The other half with the same habit but deciduous. A Royal Horticultural Society AGM winner, worth a try if you have a rock garden in zone 6 of above, and happy in a pot but give her roots room. Named for Merriweather Lewis (of Lewis and Clark).
Cliffmaids close-up

#SFSidewalkHaiku #141
Clifted or cragged
Evergreen or emerging
Blooming amidst rocks
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 05/23/2024, 📷 05/11/2024 🌱🌿
#Lewisia cotyledon, or #Siskiyoulewisia, #cliffmaids. A #californianativeplant that extends into southern Oregon, favoring rocky lower mountain habitat. #sanfrancisco
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Over on Post.news an essay, some #memoir and musings on #flowers and #healing, #gardendesign, and #ephemerality with ideas of what is coming to our small #SanFrancisco backyard lot. 📷🌱🌿 #californianativeplant #elegantclarkia
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Baby Blue Eyes, a California native annual as pretty as our best clear California sky.

#californianativeplant #Haiku #1
Fields flamed in stolen
sun Gold and blue Earth abloom
mirroring above
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 05/01/2024, 📷 04/27/2024.
#Nemophila menziesii, #California🌱🌿
Baby Blue Eyes beside Tidy Tips, Goldfields, and poppies in yellows and orange mirroring our Pacific sky.
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California blue eyed grass in the Golden California noontime sun.

#SFSidewalkHaiku #135
After winter shifts
to sun Our fields are drifts in
amethyst Dancing
©️Rick Ehling ✍️ 04/29/2024, 📷 04/22/2024.
#CalifornianBlueEyedGrass 🌿🌱The Presidio #SanFrancisco #California #californianativeplant
#Sisyrinchium bellum from sea to mountains, Oregon to Baja.
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Fremontodendron blooms in gold in April and May here in California, their flowers besting their leaves
#SFSidewalkHaiku #2
One flowering tree
and my problems fade away
Lost to golden blooms
© Rick Ehling ✍️05/02/2023, 📷 04/30/2023
🌱🌿🚶🌇 #Fremontodendron #californianativeplant #SanFrancisco #California
Another older #Haiku from my feed at #Post.news
I’ll sprinkle them here but they’re all there.
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close up of a California Poppy, it’s peak blooming until May in Northern California.

©️📸 📷Rick Ehling #californiapoppy #poppy #bloomscrolling #californianativeplant #saturdayorange #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California #spring #peakbloom #urbanhiking 🌱 🚶🌇 🌿
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