butterflies

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…

14 years ago

Sulfur Flower, a native Californian butterfly magnet

California Native Plant Week It’s California Native Plant Week and I’m profiling a different California native each day that is…

15 years ago

Marvelous Milkweed, part of a butterfly garden

Collecting milkweed pods I found these milkweed pods on a drive up to Bald Mountain in the Sierra Forest. I…

16 years ago

About Sierra Foothill Garden

Take a peek at my garden notebook of current garden happenings, my ongoing native plant ID project and also my diary of my home building process, started in 2000.
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Sue Langley

“Come to the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~~John Muir”

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