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Deer plant dancing in the wind. 💛🌱💚 #californianativeplants #grownatives #nativeplants
May 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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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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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.
April 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Looks like next spring will be another Lupinepalooza. SO many seed pods! 😁💚🌱💜 #Californianativeplants #nativeplants #grownatives
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.
April 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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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

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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…
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April 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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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.
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.
April 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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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
Photo of a small patch of yellow, yellow and white, orange, and purple wildflowers. A small patch of sunny yellow flowers.
April 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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A little rumpled, but look who popped open to say hello! 😊 Good morning, Tidy Tips! 💚🌱💛 #californianativeplants #grownatives #nativeplants
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.
April 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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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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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…
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April 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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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
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.
March 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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‘Tis a bit windy today, but a few more blooms came out to say hello! First up: Monkeyflower 💚🌱💚#californianativeplants #gardening #nativeplants
March 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Next up in my first blooms: California Goldfields. Hello, lovely one! Soon, you’ll be surrounded by friends. 💛🌱💚 #californianativeplants #nativeplants
March 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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First Lacy Phacelia bloom! #californianativeplants #nativeplants #plantnatives
March 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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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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March 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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This sad little stick is the Western Redbud I planted more than 2 years ago. Gardening is so humbling sometimes! 🙂 Sharing this and other foibles from my CA native plant project in my latest blog post. 💚🌱💚 puttingdownroots.blog/2025/03/16/k... #californianativeplants #nativeplants #gardeningfail
A brown stick poking up out of dead leaves, woodchips, and acorn caps. It has a few small stems branching off, but only two tiny leaves. A green banner has the words “Western Redbud ‘tree’” and a frowny face emoji.
March 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Squeeee!!! A native bee (Yellow-faced Bumblebee, I think?) came to visit the native Fragrant Pitcher Sage! Welcome, little buddy! 🐝💚🌱💚 🥰
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March 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Loving the color on this lupine flower. 🩷 I swear it seems like the plants that sprout out of the cracks in the driveway are healthier than anything I plant and fuss over! 🤦🏼‍♀️😂 🌱 #californianativeplants #nativeplants #wildflowers
Lupine plant with thick stems, many leaves that look like hands with several fingers on each one, and a single flower, mostly bright green and pre-bloomed, but with a few dark pink flower petals starting to unfurl.
March 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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First lupine bloom, a potential Purple Innocence problem, a “fortress of seeditude,” and more updates from my native plant project on my Putting Down Roots blog! 💚🌱 Come check it out: puttingdownroots.blog/2025/03/06/t...
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A single Succulent Lupine flower blooming on a slope. There are 4 sets of distinct purple flowers and a cone-shaped part above that is yet to bloom.
March 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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The garden’s first Baby Blue Eyes of the year! It’s happening… 💚🌱💚🥰 #californianativeplants #flowers #wildflowers #plantnatives
Macro photo of a single Baby Blue Eyes flower. Pale blue petals with white in the center and small black arrow-like dots. The leaves are many lobed and fern-like.
March 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Went hiking on Mare Island this week and came across a whole bunch of sheep and tiny lambs roaming free! Cuteness overload! We even got to pet one. 💜🐑💜
Four adult sheep and one black lamb with white on its forehead, ears, and tip of its tail. Green field and wooded area with several adult sheep and one all-black lamb, who is sitting down on a walking path. A green field and wooded area with several adult sheep and one all black lamb sitting in the grass, almost hidden from view. A white adult sheep with an all black head, ears, and legs. She’s standing in lush green grass and looking at the camera.
March 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Well, hello there, beautiful! First fragrant pitcher sage (Lepechinia fragrans) flower. I’m in love! 💜💚🌱 #californianativeplants #nativeplants #containergardening #springflowers
March 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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A hint of the beauty to come. 💚🌱💚 #californianativeplants #flowers #penstemon
Small flower buds on a penstemon plant. The stem is a deep red, most of the buds are yellowish green and tightly closed, and two buds are slightly more open with coral-colored petals.
March 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Meet the newest additions to my California native plant project: California Buttercups! They’ll be going in the ground soon. I needed some happy yellow flowers today. 🙂💚🌱💛 #nativeplants #CaliforniaNativePlants
Two nursery pots with California Buttercup (Ranunculus californicus) plants. They have trailing stems with leaves at the ends and there are 3 yellow flowers blooming.
February 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Small wonders for a Sunday. I love finding tiny things in the garden! #tinyjoys #spiders #fungi #mushroom #nature
A tiny brown spider on a Yellow Sticky Monkey Flower leaf. A teeny tiny mushroom growing amongst some rocks. It has a white fluted top that looks like a parasol and a thin, tall light brown stem.
February 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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February 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM