@curiouselder.bsky.social
Propagator of California native plants, habitat gardener, ExPost
I have Eriogonum fasciculatum (straight species). They have gotten big. I don’t ever water them. They are such a great plant for pollinators this time of year. I’ll add photos.
July 3, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I have Eriogonum fasciculatum (straight species). They have gotten big. I don’t ever water them. They are such a great plant for pollinators this time of year. I’ll add photos.
Cirsium occidentale (Cobweb Thistle)
Beautiful native thistle that the native bees fight over.
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Beautiful native thistle that the native bees fight over.
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June 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Cirsium occidentale (Cobweb Thistle)
Beautiful native thistle that the native bees fight over.
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Beautiful native thistle that the native bees fight over.
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Happy Birthday! Hope it was a great birthday.
Picture is of the rare Clarkia gracilis ssp albicaulis.
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Picture is of the rare Clarkia gracilis ssp albicaulis.
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June 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Happy Birthday! Hope it was a great birthday.
Picture is of the rare Clarkia gracilis ssp albicaulis.
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Picture is of the rare Clarkia gracilis ssp albicaulis.
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Mine is Agoseris grandiflora also. We probably both got the seed from Seedhunt. Nice plant and I love the big seed heads.
June 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Mine is Agoseris grandiflora also. We probably both got the seed from Seedhunt. Nice plant and I love the big seed heads.
Finally. Some beautiful Brodiaea pallida blooms. 😄👍
June 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Finally. Some beautiful Brodiaea pallida blooms. 😄👍
I grow a lot of the Castilleja foliolosa from seed. I start in pots both with and without a companion plant. Both do fine. Transplant easily to ground. Thrives in late winter and spring here in Sacramento. Not as pretty in summer. Got the seed from Seedhunt.
That is a lovely Iris. 🩵🩵
That is a lovely Iris. 🩵🩵
May 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I grow a lot of the Castilleja foliolosa from seed. I start in pots both with and without a companion plant. Both do fine. Transplant easily to ground. Thrives in late winter and spring here in Sacramento. Not as pretty in summer. Got the seed from Seedhunt.
That is a lovely Iris. 🩵🩵
That is a lovely Iris. 🩵🩵
I hope it is cooler in the East Bay. We are over 90 today. Do you remember when you posted a hillside of Acmispon glaber so I ordered seed and planted my hillside with it. Here is my hillside covered in Acmispon (and Castilleja and milkweed). Have a wonderful mother’s day with your family. 😘😘
May 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I hope it is cooler in the East Bay. We are over 90 today. Do you remember when you posted a hillside of Acmispon glaber so I ordered seed and planted my hillside with it. Here is my hillside covered in Acmispon (and Castilleja and milkweed). Have a wonderful mother’s day with your family. 😘😘
I don’t see them often but I love it when I do. Here is one from last week.
May 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I don’t see them often but I love it when I do. Here is one from last week.
Chorizanthe douglasii (Douglas’ Spineflower) for those of us impatient for the Eriogonums to bloom. This is an annual in the buckwheat family that blooms earlier than Eriogonum. Endemic to California. The yellow one is Pentachaeta aurea ssp.aurea.
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May 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Chorizanthe douglasii (Douglas’ Spineflower) for those of us impatient for the Eriogonums to bloom. This is an annual in the buckwheat family that blooms earlier than Eriogonum. Endemic to California. The yellow one is Pentachaeta aurea ssp.aurea.
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#CaliforniaNativePlants #NativePlants
Castilleja foliolosa (Indian Paintbrush) and Fremontodendron ‘Ken Taylor’. I have found Castilleja easy to grow from seed. They are hemiparasitic but do well in pots both with and without a companion plant. Seed purchased from Seedhunt..
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#CaliforniaNativePlants #NativePlants
May 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Castilleja foliolosa (Indian Paintbrush) and Fremontodendron ‘Ken Taylor’. I have found Castilleja easy to grow from seed. They are hemiparasitic but do well in pots both with and without a companion plant. Seed purchased from Seedhunt..
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#CaliforniaNativePlants #NativePlants
The California native grass Melica torreyana planted with Trifolium willdenovii (Tomcat’s Clover), Streptanthus glandulosa ssp. secundus (Secund Jewel Flower), Platystemon californicus and a Balsamorhiza sagittata in my serpentine rock garden.
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April 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The California native grass Melica torreyana planted with Trifolium willdenovii (Tomcat’s Clover), Streptanthus glandulosa ssp. secundus (Secund Jewel Flower), Platystemon californicus and a Balsamorhiza sagittata in my serpentine rock garden.
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#CaliforniaNativePlants #NativePlants
California native grasses have been an important addition to my pollinator and habitat garden. California has almost 700 native grass, rush and Juncus species. Photo is of the beautiful Koeleria macrantha (Junegrass) in full bloom in my yard.
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#CaliforniaNativePlants #nariveplants
April 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
California native grasses have been an important addition to my pollinator and habitat garden. California has almost 700 native grass, rush and Juncus species. Photo is of the beautiful Koeleria macrantha (Junegrass) in full bloom in my yard.
#CaliforniaNativePlants #nariveplants
#CaliforniaNativePlants #nariveplants
There are very few California native vines that do well in full sun. Calystegia macrostegia (Island Morning Glory) is doing well in full sun in Sacramento. The native morning glory is not invasive like the non native bindweed.
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#CaliforniaNativePlants #nativeplants
April 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
There are very few California native vines that do well in full sun. Calystegia macrostegia (Island Morning Glory) is doing well in full sun in Sacramento. The native morning glory is not invasive like the non native bindweed.
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#CaliforniaNativePlants #nativeplants
Pictures of my rock gardens without plant ID information. All plants are California natives.
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#CaliforniaNativePlants #NativePlants
April 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Pictures of my rock gardens without plant ID information. All plants are California natives.
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#CaliforniaNativePlants #NativePlants
California has 21 Salvia species (plus many cultivars). Two are annuals the remaining 19 are perennial which can (and do) hybridize. They have different bloom times from early spring through fall. I keep my favorite, S pachyphyla, isolated for seed collection.
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April 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
California has 21 Salvia species (plus many cultivars). Two are annuals the remaining 19 are perennial which can (and do) hybridize. They have different bloom times from early spring through fall. I keep my favorite, S pachyphyla, isolated for seed collection.
#CaliforniaNativePlants #nativeplants
#CaliforniaNativePlants #nativeplants
Here is a calscape map showing the location of the pipevine butterfly.
April 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Here is a calscape map showing the location of the pipevine butterfly.
Oh, what a beauty. Did I tell you that I joined the American Fern Society and started raising ferns last winter? I just checked and they have spores of the one you posted so I will order it. Here is a picture of my biggest one so far - Pteridium aquilinium pubescens. Otherwise, still weeding😵💫.
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April 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Oh, what a beauty. Did I tell you that I joined the American Fern Society and started raising ferns last winter? I just checked and they have spores of the one you posted so I will order it. Here is a picture of my biggest one so far - Pteridium aquilinium pubescens. Otherwise, still weeding😵💫.
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Pipevine swallowtail laying eggs on pipevine.
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#CaliforniaNativePlants
April 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Pipevine swallowtail laying eggs on pipevine.
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#CaliforniaNativePlants
Lots of pipevine swallowtails in the yard. The first photo is of pipevine swallowtail eggs on the pipevine (Aristolochia californica). Second photo: tiny caterpillars. Plant pipevine in Northern and Central California and they will come.
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#CaliforniaNativePlants #nativeplants
April 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Lots of pipevine swallowtails in the yard. The first photo is of pipevine swallowtail eggs on the pipevine (Aristolochia californica). Second photo: tiny caterpillars. Plant pipevine in Northern and Central California and they will come.
#CaliforniaNativePlants #nativeplants
#CaliforniaNativePlants #nativeplants
Most of my flowers do not make fruit. I feel lucky if I get a dozen fruit from a few thousand flowers. I have one friend that has had one fruit in 20 years on her large plant and another that gets 50 fruit every year on her little plant. Would love to know why. Photo of very early fruit.
April 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Most of my flowers do not make fruit. I feel lucky if I get a dozen fruit from a few thousand flowers. I have one friend that has had one fruit in 20 years on her large plant and another that gets 50 fruit every year on her little plant. Would love to know why. Photo of very early fruit.
Aristolochia californica (Pipevine) fruit just appeared this week. I let fruit/seeds mature on vine, bagged until pod pops open in late fall. Seed planted in fall, kept damp in cool area will germinate in 2 to 4 months.
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April 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Aristolochia californica (Pipevine) fruit just appeared this week. I let fruit/seeds mature on vine, bagged until pod pops open in late fall. Seed planted in fall, kept damp in cool area will germinate in 2 to 4 months.
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#CaliforniaNativePlants #nativeplants
California Native Papaveracea (Poppies)
Four beautiful California native poppies. All are in the poppy family Papaveracea.
Argemone munita (Chicalote)
Platystemon californicus (Creamcups)
Papaver heterophyllum (Windpoppy)
Eschscholzia lobbii (Fryingpans)
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Four beautiful California native poppies. All are in the poppy family Papaveracea.
Argemone munita (Chicalote)
Platystemon californicus (Creamcups)
Papaver heterophyllum (Windpoppy)
Eschscholzia lobbii (Fryingpans)
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April 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
California Native Papaveracea (Poppies)
Four beautiful California native poppies. All are in the poppy family Papaveracea.
Argemone munita (Chicalote)
Platystemon californicus (Creamcups)
Papaver heterophyllum (Windpoppy)
Eschscholzia lobbii (Fryingpans)
#CaliforniaNativePlants #NativePlants
Four beautiful California native poppies. All are in the poppy family Papaveracea.
Argemone munita (Chicalote)
Platystemon californicus (Creamcups)
Papaver heterophyllum (Windpoppy)
Eschscholzia lobbii (Fryingpans)
#CaliforniaNativePlants #NativePlants
I saw this in my yard yesterday. I have never planted Oxalis Californica and I live in Northern California. Do you think it is Oxalis californica? I know I should work with iNaturalist more 😆. Thanks for posting.
April 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I saw this in my yard yesterday. I have never planted Oxalis Californica and I live in Northern California. Do you think it is Oxalis californica? I know I should work with iNaturalist more 😆. Thanks for posting.
Good morning. Great to see it in its natural habitat. Here is my Streptanthus glandulosus ssp glandulosus in my yard. Seedhunt has the seed. I would love to get streptanthus niger, the rare Tiberon Jewel Flower for my serpentine rock garden. Thanks for posting.💚💚
April 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good morning. Great to see it in its natural habitat. Here is my Streptanthus glandulosus ssp glandulosus in my yard. Seedhunt has the seed. I would love to get streptanthus niger, the rare Tiberon Jewel Flower for my serpentine rock garden. Thanks for posting.💚💚