Want to add beauty and wildlife value to your yard? Consider planting natives.
“Perfectly suited to the canyons of the Santa Monica Mountains, orange bush monkeyflower is a pretty, drought-tolerant native that always makes me smile when I run across it. A shy, unassuming plant with yellow-orange blossoms, it is a magnet for hummingbirds. In Southern California, monkeyflower's most common visitors are Anna’s hummingbirds and Allen’s hummingbirds. Also, it is a forage source for common checkerspot and buckeye butterflies. Monkeyflowers do well planted alongside buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum), which brings in bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects to the yard or hillside. Monkeyflowers grow naturally on rocky cliffs, hillsides and borders of chaparral.”—Kathy Vilim of Topanga Canyon, California
Original story at NationalWildlifeFederationMagazine
Such a pretty colour, I would love to see it in it's native habitat.
ReplyDeleteThere one of my favorites, too. I'm guessing that I have about 15 of them in my garden but they're not blooming it, a bit too early but my Wooly Blue Burls are!
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