What’s Blooming? May 29, 2015
My ceanothus and antique roses are putting on a pretty good show this week. The ceanothus is typically a honey bee favorite for at least two […]
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What’s blooming? May 14, 2015
While the big leaf maple flow is winding down in my narrow valley, it seems as if just about everything else is blooming all at once. Native […]
What’s blooming? April 20, 2015
The unseasonably warm weather we’ve had since January has everything blooming early and seemingly at once. Apples, pears, quince, native trailing blackberries, salmonberries, lilacs, dogwood, buttercup, ajuga, native irises and […]
What’s blooming? February 14-21, 2015
More unseasonably warm, sunny weather brought an avalanche of blooms last week. The daffodils, forsythia, Indian plum, daphne, rootstock plum, flowering plum, hardy almonds, and flowering quince all began blooming. […]
What’s Blooming? February 5, 2015
While the violets have been blooming here since mid-December, the hellebores, vinca, and snowdrops were waiting for our late January burst of warm weather. I haven’t seen any […]
What’s blooming? January 26, 2015
This hazelnut, a.k.a. filbert, was so full of bees yesterday that it sounded like a swarm had landed. The filberts blooming here are mostly the cultivated varieties; the native filberts […]
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