Spring in the Grassland Garden

As much as I can, I love spending an hour or two on Thursday evenings working in the Grassland Garden at Ninos Parkway. We are a lovely group of volunteers who enjoy weeding, mulching, and bee watching. Plus there is sometimes a great sunset at the end! The garden was installed in December of 2022, and it has already evolved into a vibrant habitat and resources for pollinators. As someone who loves native plants but has no space to garden, I am grateful for the time I spend here, digging around the drifts of purple needlegrass, silver bush lupine, phacelia, and yarrow.

Silver Bush Lupine, Woolly Sunflower, Purple Needlegrass, Deergrass

Purple Needlegrass, Deergrass, California Phacelia

California Fescue flowering

Purple Needlegrass flowering

California Phacelia, Silver Bush Lupine, California Fescue, Purple Needlegrass

California Phacelia

Yellow-Faced Bumblebee

Yarrow, Purple Needlegrass, Deergrass