Springtime Virtual Tour of our California Native Plant Garden, April thru June--SoCalNPG Ep. 43

This is a virtual tour of our California native plant garden in spring 2021. It shows the progression of flowering plants throughout spring. It also shows how all the spring blooms attract pollinators to our garden.

California native plants include agave, autumn sage, Blackfoot daisies, blue-eyed grass, California coast sunflower, California poppies, Ceanothus Concha, Ceanothus Ray Hartman, Cleveland sage, damianita daisies, globemallow, desert willow, California buckwheat, Marina strawberry tree, Mexican bush sage, palo verde, San Miguel Island buckwheat, Santa Cruz Island buckwheat, St. Catherine's Lace buckwheat, tecoma 'Crimson Flair' and 'Sierra Apricot', verbena 'de la mina', white sage, and woolly blue curls. I have included the botanical names in the text.

Pollinators include butterflies: Cloudless Sulphur, Dainty Sulphur, Grey Hairstreak, Gulf Fritillary, Monarch, Mourning Cloak, Painted Lady, and skippers, plus bumblebees, carpenter bees, flies, goldfinch, honeybees, hummingbirds, Lady bugs, native bees, and praying mantis. Hope you enjoy!

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction - Southern California Native Plant Gardening
0:03 ROB BRIGGS, FULLERTON, CALIFORNIA
1:50 Lantana 'Little Lucky Hot Pink'
2:05 Asclepias curassavica, variety of milkweed
2:16 Eschscholzia californica, California poppy
2:53 Chrysactinia mexicana, Damianita daisy
3:08 Encelia californica, California coast sunflower
3:29 Cercidium-parkinsonia, 'Desert Museum' Palo Verde
4:35 Ceanothus 'Ray Hartman', Ray Hartman mountain lilac
4:48 Sisyrinchium bellum, Blue-eyed grass
5:42 Lavandula dentata, French lavender
6:09 Salvia leucantha 'Santa Barbara', Santa Barbara Mexican bush sage
7:06 Eriogonum arborescens, Santa Cruz Island buckwheat
7:55 Arbutus 'Marina', Marina strawberry tree
8:19 Spearalcea ambigua 'Apricot', Apricot desert globemallow
8:40 Eriogonum grande rubescens, Red buckwheat or San Miguel Island buckwheat
9:13 Eriogonum giganteum, St. Catherine's Lace buckwheat
9:42 Melampodium leucanthum, Blackfoot daisy
10:02 Eriogonum fasciculatum, California buckwheat
10:22 Salvia apiana, White sage

In the music credits I forgot to include "Sea of Ancestry" by Jesse Gallagher, which plays softly in the second half of the video.

[LindaOsier]

thank you. I finally found videos in Calif. I am zone 9 San Diego so thank you

[SD-coxe]

I love your video. Great information about the plants and wonderful to see the wildlife visiting your garden.

[shellylaverneable]

Love your videos. I moved here after fifty years in Minnesota and all the plants here just amaze me.

[melissacontreras]

Thank you
I am a beginner gardener
I am trying to incorporate native plants into my garden
Your video is very helpful
Thanks for sharing

[TobyCostaRica]

Love the video! A great resource for my lawn transformation.

If I could suggest adding the common name to the text for screen shot purposes? I see it in the description but the picture gets darkened.

[peterl.]

I planted Calylophus belandieri by mistake in my CA native garden. I didn’t make it clear enough to the guy at the nursery that I wanted only natives, so when he suggested a substitute, I bought them without asking. Their yellow flowers are vibrant and pretty though.

[YD-jwhw]

Very pretty. Especially love your wooly blue curls!

Several of these plants seem to not be California natives. Particularly I don't find any evidence that the following are California native plants:

Tecoma stans 'Crimson Flare'
Lantana camara 'Little Lucky Hot Pink'
Calylophus hartwegii
Chrysactinia mexicana
Salvia x 'Big Swing' (and the salvias it seems to have been hybridized from, though plenty of salvias are native)
Salvia leucantha (despite the 'Santa Barbara' cultivar name)
Arbutus 'Marina'
Salvia greggii
Melampodium leucanthum

You did note that your milkweed is non-native. There are several native milkweeds, including showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) and narrow-leaved milkweed (A. fascicularis).

[LindaOsier]

I like what you have to say but would be better if you could talk a little faster