Today I’m completing the job I started Saturday — washing windows and waging intense chemical warfare against the Invasion of the Spiders. I’m not sure why there are SO MANY spiders hatching this year, but they’re really freaking me out. 

Back to the garden…

California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum foliolosum, California Buckwheat grows in the chaparral in very dry hot conditions. Small animals and birds use it for cover.

Baby Nectarines

A row of Pride of Madeira proudly standing guard
at the top of our property

Baby Plums

The first strawberry of the season!

Lavender

Lemon Verbena
It smells exactly like Lemon Pledge

Snapdragons and Alstromeira

Rosebuds, of course!

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