Blooms

Native Spring blooms at Eastside Cats:

White Trillium

Wood Poppy (yellow) and Rue Anemone (white)

Red-berried Elder

Trout Lily (first year coming up!)

Bloodroot

Pussytoes

What is a native plant?

"Native plants" are plants that were wild before Europeans settled in Michigan in the 1700s.

These plants are well-adapted to the local climate and ecosystem, meaning they require less time and effort from their gardener, generally requiring little fertilizer, pesticides, or supplemental watering to keep them looking great. 

Native plants provide valuable habitat to birds, insects, mammals, amphibians, and other wildlife.

In addition, we 'leave the leaves' every autumn, as we are encouraging a woods-like habitat in our yard.

Am thankful for the natives!

Let's Hop!

Buzzy!

 Our gardens are attracting bees!

Butterfly Weed, with friend.

Milkweed, with bumblebee.

Bee Balm...without bees for now.

Am learning more about the native plants that we've put into our gardens, and delight when we have visitors.

🐝Is this cool or what?!?🐝

Let's Hop!

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World Bee Day

 May 20 is World Bee Day!

The observance of World Bee Day worldwide aims to: 

• Draw the attention of the world’s public and political decision-makers to the importance of protecting bees.
• Remind us that we depend on bees and other pollinators.
• Protect bees and other pollinators, which would significantly contribute to solving problems related to the global food supply and eliminate hunger in developing countries. 
• Halt the further loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystems, and thereby contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

A bee visiting milkweed blossoms in our yard.

Our native bee house is busy.

Bats are also great pollinators; look at those wings.

Video taken in our yard, at dusk.

There are more than 450 kinds of bees in Michigan, 3,600 types of bees in the USA, and 20,000 bee species around the world.

Be nice to bees, birds, butterflies, and bats.