Aug 7, 2026 · 45 min · 10 segments
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Of course, there are all sorts of California native plants here, as you've probably gleaned if you've been listening to us.
as the speciosa which is around the oak tree but it is seems to be a better host here locally for monarch butterflies and they are in bloom right now so that's nice they smell you get up close you have to get up close to the flower they have a nice
sweet smell you also have some plants that you probably would never see in a nursery like a tower of jewels plant Right.
But then it reseeds itself wherever it chooses or wherever I drag the dead plant because there are still seeds in the dead plant.
But when it first grew, it was visible from the street all the way up my driveway.
It isn't something you see at a nursery because it is a biennial or sometimes it takes a third year to come into flower.
Of course, there are all sorts of California native plants here, as you've probably gleaned if you've been listening to us.
as the speciosa which is around the oak tree but it is seems to be a better host here locally for monarch butterflies and they are in bloom right now so that's nice they smell you get up close you have to get up close to the flower they have a nice
sweet smell you also have some plants that you probably would never see in a nursery like a tower of jewels plant Right.
But then it reseeds itself wherever it chooses or wherever I drag the dead plant because there are still seeds in the dead plant.
But when it first grew, it was visible from the street all the way up my driveway.
It isn't something you see at a nursery because it is a biennial or sometimes it takes a third year to come into flower.
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