clay and limestone

    I appreciate all the pollinators at Clay and Limestone, but, my favorite has always been Bumbles . We moved into this house in early...

To help celebrate Pollinator Week I am republishing this post from 2015 on Eastern Carpenter Bees/Xylocopa virginica. I've added a few...

Welcome to the July Garden Blogger Bloom Day at Clay and Limestone. It's hot and humid and while many flowers thrive in these conditions...

I've been watching for pollinators on the Camassia and so has this crab spider. Flowers spiders, as crab spiders are also known, have...

Carpenter bees are notorious nectar robbers . That big body makes it hard to fit into many flowers and they will drill or cut into the cor...

  Pollinator Week   has been proclaimed throughout the land! Here to help us celebrate is one of my favorite pollinators, the Eastern carpen...

Carpenter bees are notorious nectar robbers. Their big body makes it hard to fit into some flowers and they will drill or cut into the co...

Earlier this month False Dragonhead began it's charming bottom up bloom. It didn't take long for the Bumbles to arrive on the scene...