A Ladybug Sleeps via Instagram
What is your favorite beneficial garden insect? Leave a comment and share! A Ladybug Sleeps In the native plant garden at Cal Poly Pomona and Follow Join A Gardener’s Notebook on Continue Reading
Honeybees Gathering Water – A Minute in the Garden 66 [Video]
Part of a series of garden minutes from A Gardener’s Notebook Honeybees drink from a small rill in the new Cal Poly Pomona Native Plant Garden on a hot day. Continue Reading
Valley Carpenter Bee (female) (Xylocopa varipuncta) [Video] (1 minute, 38 seconds)
Valley Carpenter Bee (female) (Xylocopa varipuncta) A female Valley Carpenter Bees (Xylocopa varipuncta) feeds on Mexican sage in my garden a few days ago. I was out working to clear Continue Reading
Start A New Beekeeping/Garden Journal these “Bees Take A Drink” Hardcover Journals and Much More!
Start A New Beekeeping/Garden Journal these “Bees Take A Drink” Hardcover Journals and Much More! Also available on Tees, iPhone Cases, Cards and Much More! Directly from my Instagram Photos Continue Reading
Historical Garden Books: The hive and the honey-bee by H.D. Richardson (1849) – 9 in a Series
Archive.org has a host of old gardening books (from mid-19th to mid-20th Century) available in many formats and on a host of topics. I happened across a few in my Continue Reading
Bees To Water – A Minute In The Garden 65 from A Gardener’s Notebook [Video]
Part of a series of garden minutes from A Gardener’s Notebook The 100 degree temps these last few days has turned the bird batch into a bee waterer. I have Continue Reading
Bees on Aeonium Flowers – A Minute In The Garden 63 from A Gardener’s Notebook [Video] (1:00)
Part of a series of garden minutes from A Gardener’s Notebook Bees cover our neighbor’s aeonium flowers this morning and for the last several days Music: Finding the Balance by Continue Reading
Befriend Bees via Sunset: Garden
Before a flower can set seed or form fruit, it needs to be pollinated. Though some plants are pollinated by bats, birds, butterflies, moths, and wasps, most of the work Continue Reading
Worker Bee 🐝 via Instagram
Worker Bee 🐝 Spotted today, among many other bees and butterflies, at the nursery. Join the conversation on A Gardener’s Notebook on Facebook * A portion of each sale from Continue Reading
Bee On Apricot Blossom
Bee On Apricot Blossom Follow A Gardener’s Notebook on Facebook * A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs ** Many of these books may be available Continue Reading