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Tag Archives: Insects

To the Coyote Brush that Didn’t Make It

October 28, 2018by concretechaparral 3 Comments

Coyote brush is a tough, scrappy survivor, often overlooked and under appreciated.

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Garden, Habitat & Wildlife, Insects, Native Plants

To Wonder View and Beyond!

June 20, 2018by concretechaparral 7 Comments

Besides city views and apex predators, there is also show biz!

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Birds, Habitat & Wildlife, Hikes/Walks, Insects, Landmarks, Mammals, Native Plants, Pets, Urban Parks
It's blue-purple flowers reveal blue-eyed grass to actually be of the iris family and not a grass.

Checking In with the Yard

May 19, 2018by concretechaparral 3 Comments

So far all the plants have survived with the exception of the island morning glory dug up by my co-gardener, Rocky the dog.  Even the native grasses he ate grew back fine.

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Birds, Garden, Habitat & Wildlife, Insects, Native Plants

Ballona Freshwater Marsh

April 10, 2018by concretechaparral 7 Comments

Not far from the L.A. coastline, at the corner of Lincoln and Jefferson is a small marsh.

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Look Ma! I’m Making a Wilderness!

February 10, 2018by concretechaparral 9 Comments

So plant a few natives in the yard and call it a day, eh?  I wish.

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Late Summer at Kenneth Hahn Park

September 28, 2017by concretechaparral 4 Comments

A late summer walk in Kenneth Hahn Park can be a bit dismal.

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The Battle of the Earwigs

May 6, 2017by concretechaparral 2 Comments

We native gardeners are a noble bunch, but we do have a dark side…

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Rancho Sierra Vista/Satwiwa

April 9, 2017by concretechaparral 3 Comments

Starting east of Oxnard and encompassing the Santa Monica Mountains from the Malibu coast to the 101 freeway is the Santa Monica National Recreation Area.

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Habitat & Wildlife, Hikes/Walks, Insects, Native Plants

Milkweed and Unending Faith II

March 26, 2017by concretechaparral 1 Comment

Gardeners are a strange lot. We’re control freaks recreating the Garden of Eden.

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Garden, Habitat & Wildlife, Insects, Native Plants

Skeeters! Gollywhoppers! Crane Flies!

March 21, 2017by concretechaparral Leave a comment

Every spring I saw bugs looking like giant mosquitoes, mistaken as real mosquitoes by many.

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A willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus) searches the tide pool for a tasty snack. Soon they will leave for their summer range in the north-central United States and south-central Canada, one of the shorter migration for our winter shorebirds.
On the rocky beaches of Pablo’s Verde a whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) enjoys their last days of California sunshine. Whimbrels summer in the far north of Alaska and Canada.
New flower emerging on a California bush sunflower (Encelia californica).
Malva Rosa (Malva assurgentiflora) has one of the most stunning flower of California natives. Interestedly, its two to three inch flowers are obscured by its own foliage. These flowers I saw only because I was weeding around it. Evolutionary-wise, I wonder how that came to be. Colorful flowers can take a lot of a plant’s energy to create and are meant to attract pollinators, so why do malva rosa hide their flowers?
What!? No one told me yesterday was California Poppy Day! >sigh< Here are some California poppies (Eschscholzia californica) and a Concha ceanothus (Ceanothus ‘Concha’). If you planted ceanothus before, you would know it is a bee magnet. However, the poppies have a stronger pull - few bees are visiting the ceanothus while dozens go from poppy to poppy. Everyone loves the poppies!
An Anna’s Hummingbird (Calypte anna) grabbing a quick snack.
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