BIRDS&BUTTERFLIES: Here Comes the Sun…flower!

Another epiphany for the plant of the month… if it is December it is Toyon… the Christmas berry… California Holly!

It needs sun… as does the butterfly B&B… so here is the beginning of the Bird & Butterfly Bed & Breakfast:

• Eriophyllum lanatum ‘Siskiyou’: Spreading Wooly Sunflower
• Heteromeles arbutifolia, Toyon

Two more yellow findings… one for the shady butterfly garden and the other for the hummingbird hood:

• Canyon Sunflower (Venegasia carpesioides)
• Salvia spathacea ‘Avis Keady’

On the wish list for the sunny rocky butterfly B&B:

• Bladderpod: A Plant for the New California Landscape . pdf
• Verbena lilacina ‘De La Mina’