Happy Friday! There is a bunch going on around here at the Habitat Corridor Project. A brief update:Our Sebastopol Corridor Project is thriving – these sites only get bi-weekly water at the most – and the plants are doing well.
Bumblebee blog
Our native manzanitas are flowering now and they will attract many early spring pollinators, including those fuzzy black and yellow-haired bumblebees. There are 26 native species of bumblebees in California and they live in small colonies in the ground, which
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DRAGONFLIES
Habitat Notes A few weeks ago April was excited to spot a beautiful reddish-orange dragonfly in her garden. She sent me the photo, hoping I could identify it. This beauty was a Flame Skimmer, common to ponds, lakes, and streams
Coffeeberry Packs a Pollinator Punch
Nancy Here: Coffeeberry (Frangula) at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts I especially love stopping by to see what is going on at our habitat garden at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Last time I checked there was a
AND…a note from April
Happy Friday! I’m sitting here in my home office watching a little hummingbird have dinner in my garden- they seem to be most appreciative of the red blooming plants. Yesterday, I enjoyed a couple of Robins in our bird bath.
Sebastopol Habitat Corridor Project Update:
The beautiful black Pipevine Swallowtails are emerging and looking for pipevine, their only caterpillar host plant. We’ve started a Dutchman’s pipevine (Aristolochia californica) at the Center near the entrance. Be patient —they can take a year or two to take
Quail Hedgerow
We came up with this wonderful combination for a fire rebuild this week. The clients love their resident Quail but not so much the brambles they are living it. Add some wonderful California native plants in masses of 3-5. We
Butterfly and Hummingbird Swale
We’ve been having fun experimenting on small scale projects that can really transform the habitat value of your garden. At the Sonoma Living Learning Landscapes we created this lovely little bermed swale by digging a 2’x 15′ low place for
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Manzanita and Currant Check out the manzanita —in full bloom— and the pink-flowering currant (just starting) at the Sebastopol Chamber of Commerce garden. The soft pink pendants of the pink-flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum) are a favorite of bees and