Wildlife
Year-round hummingbirds of the Sierra foothills
Attracting Hummingbirds to the garden... Plant a hummingbird garden and they will come! Lure them right into your own garden with a…
Spring discoveries: Two new natives
Orange you glad to find two new CA natives in the garden? Yes, I am! A new bird and a new…
Easy steps to a clean birdbath
How to clean a bird bath in twelve photos Keeping a birdbath sparkling clean is easy and it's worth a…
Deer in the foothills
Some of our deer friends... I still like the deer better than any one plant. They are the best sort…
Who needs mosquito repellant when you have your own bats?
"The more people know about bats the more they'll care about them." Sitting out tonight, while watering, I noticed a…
Butterfly Gardening: Living leaves in your garden
Butterfly gardeners begin this way….they see a colorful butterfly in their garden and start paying attention. They want to see…
Outwitting gophers in the Sierra foothill garden
Gophers and other living garden pests can drain the enthusiasm from the hardiest gardener in the California Sierra foothills. To…
Inviting wildlife into your California garden
How we garden Normally, gardeners have only had themselves to please when creating a plant world around them. And that's…
Steller’s jay means cool weather in Autumn
At Sierra Foothill Garden, we love birds! In our albums we have collected, there are many photos of the ones…
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