TC, looking for that long lost treat. The black netting is a favorite roll around and scratch pad.
It's alsp a great way to get stuck.
This attractive creature I think is a Darkling Beetle grub. I find these around rose roots. I took this down to the supposed experts at the local nursery and they said it was the larvae of a Jerusalem Cricket...........lot of help that was.
The rose hedge is getting revamped this year and these are the latest additions:
We'll see how this works out.
An alert guardian of the yard who recently discovered Alligator Lizards
Our Largest Crab
A native whose name a always fail to remember.
My pad from the Haiwee reservoir several years later.
This crab is still hanging in there
The oldest Crab
This year the wild flower bed is getting bird netting, a whole bunch of seeds and more mulch.
Another native shrub in bloom.
May is a good time of year for blooming native shrubery.
Desert Peach after a rain storm - a rare sight (rain, not the desert peach).
"Should I pee on this or shouldn't I?"
This Blue Elderberry is one of the first to bloom. I am thinking about taking some suckers and growing them further out back as a bush. They seem to have no trouble with the climate.
The latest mystery plant. I think I may have picked this up from Iowa or Kansas. It certainly wintered over nicely.
Anyone have an idea as to what this is?
