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Sisyrinchium bellum
I planted this Californian Western Blue-Eyed Grass in my garden in 2010 and it is thriving. It is native to California and a member of the iris family. It is low growing and is about 6 inches high.
Urban house flower garden.
Spotted on May 9, 2011
Submitted on Oct 4, 2011
6 Comments
Thank you Cindy! I love the color too!
Wow, they don't look real. Nearly perfect plant. Love the blue flowers. Awesome you're planting native plants!
Thank you Emma! And thanks for all the frog spotting suggestions. I was fortunate to spot these salamanders under one of the planters in my garden in 2008, but have not seen any since. Whenever I move a planter I hope to see more, but no luck. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/713...
Thank you textless!
lovely misako!!
BTW i saw your frog spottings.
May be the rains will bring on some more kinds of frogs.
Borges ranch on Mt Diablo has a few variety.
Bob's Pond has 3 varieties. Red legged,tree frog and california toad. I saw millions of them under a tree about a month ago. They must be bigger now.
Then there is bull frog pond next to the ranch. It is supposed to have huge bull frogs. Willows pond has some frogs too. These are places where you might be able to see frogs in a natural setting.
Heather farms park which is about 2 miles away has a pond . i saw lots od Tadpoles and Cray fish in it. i also saw a leopard frog. The frogs are elusive and disappear fast. i heard that you can spot them early morning or in the nite.
Some times school trips bring in children with nets and they find newts.
i have not seen salamanders in a natural setting.
Another option would be the California Academy of sciences which has a large variety of frogs.
Really pretty, and nice pictures!