Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

Each year I add new houses for the Orchard Mason Bees.  They fill up almost all of the holes, so I know they are proliferating.  Now to take...

This is the annual "try to get the dogs to cooperate for a photo under the white cherry tree" photo. I love this tree, old and gn...

Today (Saturday), I... Weeded the rose bed. This bed now has almost as many fruit trees, brambles, and plants, as roses, but still contains ...

Yesterday a few Orchard Mason Bees( Osmia lignaria )were out flying around, and a couple looked like they were in need of new houses. The c...

Today was a day of rest - in other words, some puttering. This is the opuntia rufida that I alluded to in an earlier ramblimg. Pruned about...

Here are the mud-plugs carefully applied by orchard mason bees last summer. I noticed today that about 1/4 of them are poked out. Is it a...