March: Lupins started blooming and California poppies followed.

This year Lupins and California poppies bloomed earlier than usual due to warm winter. During shelter-in place order many sidewalkers enjoyed our front yard. Some of them took pictures of plants, and others took California poppy plants and planted them to their front yards. As expected those plants were died. I would like to point out that taking somone’s plants are crime (we filed that incident to a police). Just in case I had to spend hundreds dollars for security cameras to monitor our front yards.

April: More native plants found in my yards.

Most of them were contained in Hedgefarm wild flower seed packat that I sprinked two years ago. I had time to observe plants in my yards and indentified four species.

I’ve noticed last year we have Galium sp. (ヤエムグラの仲間) in my backyard, and this year I found that they are Galium porrigens var. tenue (Graceful Bedstraw).

There were four specied in the seed packat, whcih were not found last year. Among those I found three species.

Achillea millefolium (yarrow)

Phacelia ciliata (Great Valley Phacelia)

Phacelia californica (Rock Phacelia)

A California carpenter bee (?) on Phacelia californica flowers.