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California Friendly Gardening 10
Milkweeds are important plants to include in native gardens. They are nectar sources for our native pollinators (as seen in this photo). Their leaves are the only food source for monarch butterfly larvae, which have been in dwindling populations in recent years. Milkweed is beneficial, too, to nearb...
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California Friendly Gardening 11
My husband and I would walk our dogs in the evening and pass one of our elderly neighbors hand watering his front yard garden. Sometimes he would sit in a chair and fan the hose back and forth. The yard was full of colorful funky birdhouses. Then we stopped seeing him. A few months later, the same h...
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California Friendly Gardening 12
The photos were taken this April 2017 of my front yard in Milpitas,CA.
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California Friendly Gardening 13
In fall of 2013, about 1/3 of the grass in our front yard was sheet composted (aka lasagna mulched). I liked how it was an easy way to convert lawn to planting beds, and my plan was to take advantage of the winter rains to help the composting process, and it worked beautifully. My husband helped ter...
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California Friendly Gardening 15
Front yard grass replacement. Took out turf in 2008 and haven't looked back
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California Friendly Gardening 16
I was going to throw away this old, not very good wheelbarrow and got idea to instead turn it into a Basil Barrow. Invested about $5 for some yellow and black paint and repurposed the wheelbarrow into a Basil Barrow. This picture taken April 2017.
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California Friendly Gardening 17
Second year California Native Entry Demo Garden at Martial Cottle Park
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California Friendly Gardening 18
To meet our continuing education requirement, I take a garden itinerary course offered by Santa Monica College Emeritus. One week some years ago, we visited this Santa Monica backyard kitchen garden, which nods to California's mission heritage with its formal layout, Mediterranean climate-friendly ...
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California Friendly Gardening 19
Photo was taken in the early morning of March 15, 2013 in my garden in Santa Barbara, California. The fog bestowed a mysterious aura throughout the garden that morning which I had to capture in a photo. It is here where I enjoy my morning coffee and ponder the thoughts of the day while the hummingbi...
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California Friendly Gardening 1st Place
The photo was taken in spring in Napa, California. I found the colors of the flowers against the green leaves and stems attractive.
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California Friendly Gardening 20
I took this photo in a friend's front yard in Encinitas, California, early on an overcast morning. The Matija Poppies in her yard have been there 20 years and cover her fence of 25 feet. Bees were everywhere.I liked how the sun backlit the white flower with the dark background. the photo also cap...
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California Friendly Gardening 21
Beasley Ono GardenJune 2017Amazing to me how such a delicate looking flower survived a week of 100 plus temperatures during a dangerous heat wave and managed to look stress free with little water.
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California Friendly Gardening 23
Native wild ginger has adapted nicely to the areas of total shade in my garden. I took this photo this past early, early spring when the small flowers bloom under the large heart shaped leaves. I always take it as a compliment when plants self-sow and this one is going like crazy, in between rocks...
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California Friendly Gardening 24
It was the first rain of 2017. My honeysuckle was so happy in that glorious afternoon . Its branches were dancing and I could not wait to see my hummingbird this spring
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California Friendly Gardening 25
San Diego CA
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California Friendly Gardening 26
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California Friendly Gardening 26A
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California Friendly Gardening 27
Once established, both Bougainvillea and Matilija Poppy are drought resistant and pest resistant, making them perfect for California Friendly Gardening examples. Matilija poppy in the genus Romneya was named after the Irish Astronomer John Thomas Romney Robinson. This hillside was probably a hard ...
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California Friendly Gardening 28
Taken March 28, 2017 with my iPad. The cutting was given to me by a friend and I stuck it in a pot. It has prompted me to plant more and more succulents in my garden.It is in my backyard and I love its pink and green coloration and later its incredible bloom.
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California Friendly Gardening 29
Poppies have free reign in my front yard in celebration of my granddaughter, Poppy! March 2017, Merced.
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California Friendly Gardening 2nd Place
Liberty High School, Benicia, 2017.Color, texture and artistic arrangement created by students.
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California Friendly Gardening 30
The new design features low maintenance, low water, and tough plants were needed to replace old overgrown hedges to discourage people from sleeping behind the bushes. A dry rock bed and new downspout drainage was installed to control flooding into the parking lot from winter rains. The old brok...
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California Friendly Gardening 31
This photo was taken on a trail off of Montana De Oro State Park during a spring hike. The poppies and wild radish happened to be in bloom. How does nature know that orange and purple are opposites on the color wheel and make for a stunning combination? Amazing! Then with the ocean in the backgro...
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California Friendly Gardening 32
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California Friendly Gardening 33
This is a small section of my habitat garden designed in a trailing figure eight pathway. It attracts all manner of wildlife from subterranean creatures to raptors. All plants are drought tolerant. There is no supplemental water from mid October through April. The hottest months receive a good soak...
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California Friendly Gardening 34
Photo taken in my backyard in Sacramento, CA in March 2017. The burst of the first blossoms in spring caught my eye.
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California Friendly Gardening 35
Wild Fennel (Anise) is believed to have been brought to California with the early European settlers, specifically grown in our Spanish Missions. Its cultivation escaped and now can be seen throughout California in freeway edges, creek beds, and native gardens. For some, it is an annoyingly invasiv...
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California Friendly Gardening 37
Natural Habitat for all Gods creatures. My yard provides the 4-basic elements for wildlife; food, Shelter, water and a place to raise their Young. They all return, year after year because they feel safe.I removed my front lawn in 2005 to plant my collection of cactus and succulents which were crowde...
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California Friendly Gardening 38
California Friendly Gardening/Outstanding Ornamental. Photo was taken in my Menlo Park garden on March 6, 2016 using an iPhone 6s. I planted the Happy Wanderer in honor of my father and it was one of the first plants I planted since moving from the east coast (couldn't grow this in the frigid winter...
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California Friendly Gardening 39
This photo features our California Native Demonstration Garden at the Santa Clara County offices. This area was formerly a large berm of grass in full southern exposure sun. 4 years ago Santa Clara County Master Gardens worked with the County to transform this area to a California Native garden. ...
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California Friendly Gardening 3rd Place
Taken on a overcast and rainy day in the front yard of a private home during the Sacramento Valley CNPS “Gardens Gone Native” tour on April 29, 2014. This is such a simple and inexpensive but vibrantly colorful scene filled with water-thrifty California native salvias, irises, and poppies, and it re...
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California Friendly Gardening 40
This is a small section of a berm planter that runs along the northeast portion of my front yard. The plants face south/southwest. This planter has become a haven for many garden creatures and a nectar source for hummingbirds and butterflies. I am actually pleased with the colors of each plant sepa...
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California Friendly Gardening 41
Franklin Canyon, Martinez, Ca.June 29,2017My husband and I were watching a family of California Quail that hatched in our yard, and who's progress we have followed since the chicks looked like little brown cotton balls.I was hoping to get a good shot of the family, but they were not going to let me ...
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California Friendly Gardening 42
This year's homes on the Ripon Garden tour have a lot to offer. I took this photo of one of the homes that will be featured this year. I love the color combination, it is very soothing to the eye. As you walk by, the fragrance of lavender fills the air. Bees and butterflies abound enjoy this garden....
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California Friendly Gardening 43
Bales of straw are a low-cost, low water use, soil-less alternative to raised beds and other container-type gardens. This picture was taken about 3 weeks after the seed potatoes were planted in the demonstration bale garden at Woodland Community College (Woodland, CA.)
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California Friendly Gardening 44
Photo taken in Bellflower, California at a front yard. The stunning orange color and dainty delicate flower caught my eye.
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California Friendly Gardening 45
I took the photo outside my front door on June19th on one of many recent 107° days. I took several photos to capture their moment, but I think like all bloom lovers it would be criminal to walk by on their one day of glory and not be humbled by their beauty, detail, complexity, color and then their...
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California Friendly Gardening 46
The photo was taken from my west-facing yard in the fall of 2016. The spectacular colors of the leaves dominated the yard. The tree has special significance since it was given to us by my wife's mother. She has passed on.
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California Friendly Gardening 47
This photo was taken in my yard on May 23, 2017. The rich contrasting colors caught my eye, and as i got closer i encountered the pleasant fragrances. I think having the apple tree covered by ornamentals helps hide the fruit from the birds. They haven't found it yet this year.
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California Friendly Gardening 48
Fort Bragg, CA June, 2017
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California Friendly Gardening 49
Taken in my backyard in Fair Oaks. I love this Muhly Grass and this girl just looks like she's happy to help! The pinks are great in the light. Taken in September of 2014.
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California Friendly Gardening 5
This photo was taken at the 2016 Master Gardener Tour. Before participating in the Master Gardener program last year I didn't know much about succulents and wasn't particularly drawn to them. I thought they were...pedestrian. I knew they are drought tolerant--perfect for a Califronia friendly garden...
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California Friendly Gardening 50
I took this photo of the front yard in early Spring. This drought-tolerant golden field of California poppies is complimented by the blue flowers of Ceanothus or California lilac; while white Watsonia flower spikes wait for their turn. This approximately 20-feet deep bed of drought-tolerant plants a...
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California Friendly Gardening 51
Use lavender (drought tolerate) as a border for my edible garden. Harvest some for my closet, left some for my honey bees.
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California Friendly Gardening 6
This picture may be used for California Friendly Gardening since I submitted one also for Outstanding Ornamental. Please use one of them. I thought this picture captured the Summer of Love with all the beautiful flowers surrounding me in my garden. My garden represents peace.
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California Friendly Gardening 7
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California Friendly Gardening 8
These plants initially caught my eye because it reminded me of Christmas
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California Friendly Gardening 9
An Alameda County Master Gardener Demonstration Garden of Natives, Mediterraneans, Australians, UC Davis Allstars and other wise outstanding plants for California Gardens
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Creatures in the Garden 10
Tomato hornworms larvae can be distinguished by their seven light-green/white v-shaped markings which extend from the dorsal line to its sides. At the rear end, the caterpillar has a bumpy horn, from which the name for the hornworm is derived.
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Creatures in the Garden 10A
A unique hunting aspect of this species is the ability to see near ultraviolet light, allowing the birds to detect the urine trails around rodent burrows.
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Creatures in the Garden 11
This frog species is about the size of your thumb. It shows up every year at the pond not far from my backyard in American Canyon. This wet year there is an abundance of frogs and I find them throughout my garden, in empty pots, in the bird food bin, and sometimes,in the morning, I find them sticki...
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Creatures in the Garden 117
The photo was taken at the UCCE-owned Hansen Agricultural Research and Extension Center during a master gardener work session. The hawk was perched on a welcome to the garden sign. I suspect this hawk was immature and hadn't yet figured out his chances of finding food (mice) in the garden was fairly...
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Creatures in the Garden 12
This frog species is about the size of your thumb. It shows up every year at the pond not far from my backyard in American Canyon. This wet year there is an abundance of frogs and I find them throughout my garden, in empty pots, in the bird food bin, and sometimes,in the morning, I find them sticki...
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Creatures in the Garden 13
This photo was taken on my patio in Orange, California on March 5, 2016. What appeared to be a little green man from Mars was hiding amongst the Italian parsley seedlings awaiting planting in the vegetable garden. Teeny, tiny, and oh, so green, this young praying mantis was barely visible.
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Creatures in the Garden 14
Taken in my garden. Summer. The beauty of the Artichoke, then the bees at work.
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Creatures in the Garden 15
This photo was taken in our backyard in April of 2017. I was experimenting with a new macro lens I had received and set up next to the Echium. After several hundred shots of attempting to remain still and hoping that one of the birds would fly into my focus area, this particular hummingbird took pit...
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Creatures in the Garden 16
Have a rabbit's foot fern by front door. praying mantis seem to like the location.
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Creatures in the Garden 17
Photo was taking at Vanguard Community Garden. Just because I Love butterflies and taking pictures
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Creatures in the Garden 18
When Kelly called out to me in the garden, her tone of voice was more like Get the shotgun Zeke, there's a burglar in the root cellar rather than the eeek, a mouse you might expect. Kelly is understandably protective about the mushroom bed I built, and new flushes of fruiting bodies always bring a s...
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Creatures in the Garden 19
This Golden Male Carpenter Bee stumbled into my garden looking for sweet nectar. It's been quite awhile since I've seen a golden, so I ran and got my cell phone. I snapped several shots, careful not to disturb all the other bees in the garden. I tried to get him to keep still, and that was imposs...
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Creatures in the Garden 20
Buddleia meyeriaa [B. davidii x globosa] Sungold; taken in my garden;
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Creatures in the Garden 21
Merlot, my African Grey parrot, was supervising my weeding in my garden in San Francisco. She then began to imitate the blue jays and hummingbirds and would laugh at them.
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Creatures in the Garden 22
Taken in my previous yard 4 or 5 years ago. I'm always happy to see praying mantises in my garden, so I save their egg cases from year to year
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Creatures in the Garden 23
This photo was taken during the annual January fly-in of a large flock of waxwings which is usually noisily heralded by robins that precede them. Within 24 hrs., most of the berries have been eaten, and the waxwings have disappeared into their nearby woodland habitat.
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Creatures in the Garden 24
I took this photo of a yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia) last year in my backyard in Sacramento. Yellow garden spiders often find a home in tall vegetation where they can securely stretch a web. This spider decided my tall blooming phlox was the perfect location for her web. What is interestin...
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Creatures in the Garden 25
This photo was taken in April at the Huntington Botanical Garden in Pasadena. Drosera is growing in the Conservatory in the Carnivorous Plant Bog. The plant hales from the Carolinas, Georgia or Florida.
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Creatures in the Garden 26
When milkweed showed up in my yard (I never planted it, so it must have come in with some compost) the Monarch butterflies were soon to follow. The grandkids and I had fun watching them go through all their stages. Last September, my husband surprised me for my birthday with a butterfly rearing cage...
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Creatures in the Garden 27
This red beauty loves to use the tomato stake as a lookout and sunning spot. He is fearless and allows me to get very close.
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Creatures in the Garden 28
This photo was taken in my garden on May 8, 2017. Initially, I was taking pictures of my roses for our local rose photography show when I noticed this small insect flying around one of the blooms. I wanted to know what this was and perhaps through a photo I would be able to identify it. After I down...
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Creatures in the Garden 29
The photo was taken in Skyline Wilderness Park (Napa) in July. I loved how the morning light on the butterfly wings produced a stained glass effect.The monarch caterpillars eat only milkweed while the adults feed on nectar from various nectar-rich flowers such as sunflower, goldenrod and buckwheat. ...
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Creatures in the Garden 2nd Place
This female native longhorn bee caught my attention with her focused determination to gather pollen despite many courtship advances from multiple male suitors. Head down, she methodically and carefully traversed the perimeter of the flower, gathering pollen from each anther, while fending off the di...
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Creatures in the Garden 30
My favorite iris and my favorite pollinator. Taken in my front yard meadow
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Creatures in the Garden 31
Taken in my garden a couple of summers ago. I noticed the mantis as i was collecting a salad for lunch and thought he was probably doing the same
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Creatures in the Garden 32
We plant milkweed in our community garden and have plenty of Monarchs visiting, laying their eggs and continuing their life cycle
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Creatures in the Garden 33
Photo taken during a work day the Master Gardener of Alameda County Demonstration Garden at Quarry Lakes. Taken 9/20/16. Part of the joy of working in the garden is spotting a creature that one might otherwise missed. I always carry my cell phone in my pocket just incase I see something special....
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Creatures in the Garden 34
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Creatures in the Garden 35
Taken at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden in Fort Bragg, CA
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Creatures in the Garden 36
One of the benefits of having a pool in the backyard is that it attracts a wide variety of dragonflies.
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Creatures in the Garden 37
Martial Cottle Park CA Native habitat demo garden. yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) Working on a California Poppy.
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Creatures in the Garden 38
Taken at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden in the meadow.
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Creatures in the Garden 39
Photo taken in Elk Grove CA. This lovely dragonfly was resting on a Shasta Daisy bud in my garden in the early morning.
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Creatures in the Garden 40
Photo taken September 2016
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Creatures in the Garden 41
Photo was taken at the Sherwood Demonstration Garden on May 19, 2017.
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Creatures in the Garden 42
Come mating season, doves often build the scantiest of nests very close to our house. The last few years, they've nested either in herb planters on the wall just outside our kitchen door, or (like these) in pots of succulents suspended from the railing outside our family room door. We can't exit or...
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Creatures in the Garden 43
I took this photo several years ago, I had only seen the common red ladybug before so I was surprised to see this black one.
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Creatures in the Garden 44
Taken in my garden in Placerville, CA.
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Creatures in the Garden 45
This photo was taken in my own yard. I like to observe the small things. As a new MG, sharing photos was the way I made connections with fellow MGs. This bee was used in a Bee Presentation and on an information poster at our booth at the San Mateo County fair - both this year. He's sort of an ho...
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Creatures in the Garden 46
Photo taken in Dixon, CA. 2015. Longhorn bees are eye-catching from their long antennae to their green eyes. These bees are in my garden annually.
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Creatures in the Garden 47
Photo taken at the Garden of the Sun on Spring Garden Tour training day as I was leaving training.
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Creatures in the Garden 48
This bee was flitting around the Naked Garden when the Orange County Master Gardeners visited England last year.
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Creatures in the Garden 49
Photo taken January 7, 2014. It appears to be an egg sack or cocoon of some spider. I have not been able to identify it.I found the sac in some long, dry grass in my garden in Santa Barbara, California. I left it alone and did not see what came out of it. I have many spiders in my garden. I took a p...
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Creatures in the Garden 50
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Creatures in the Garden 51
This photo was taken in the summer of 2016 at the Rancho Cielo Youth Campus Demo Garden in Salinas, CA.
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Creatures in the Garden 52
This photo was taken at the South Coast Research and extension center, perfectly timed just when we were touring the youth garden talking about pollinators!
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Creatures in the Garden 53
This damselfly spent an afternoon munching on pests in my garden. The image was captured in my home garden in Greenbrae, March 14, 2016. He made my job as a photographer easy by resting on the same leaf litter pile after nabbing a bug. I was awed by the damselfly's beautiful, intricate face and hu...
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Creatures in the Garden 54
The photo was taken in the Beasley Ono Garden. A home garden dedicated to feeding the critters of our world. The photo was taken at the end of May, 2017. I first saw the nest in the backyard of our garden as the mother Anna's hummingbird was building her nest in the 40+ year old ginko tree.I checke...
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Creatures in the Garden 55
Caught this newly emerged monarch outside my front door
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Creatures in the Garden 56
This hummingbird has coninually lived in our garden for 2 years. This spring, it has started sitting all day on this branch near the peach, staring in our kitchen window. It fluffs up and settles down to watch his domain, preen, and catch a few bugs that fly by.NOTE: the picasa is linked to my husba...
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Creatures in the Garden 57
Taken on June 17, 2015 at the Haagen Dasz Honey Bee Haven near the U. C. Davis campus. Male carpenter bees are seldomly seen, so it was a rare treat to find and photograph this fuzzy tan “teddy bear.” The bee’s captivating greenish eyeballs stared at me while it hugged the vibrant purple blooms of M...
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