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Butterflies, Birds, Bees, Fish & Seeds
Backyard Birder - 53
Lavendar Bee Farm
P.O. Box 2775, Sebastopol 707-326-9054 wayne@backyardbirder.net www.backyardbirder.net Online Only
764 Chapman Lane, Petaluma 707-789-0554 lavenderbeefarm@yahoo.com www.lavenderbeefarm.com Open by Appointment
Wild bird feeding supplies at VERY competitive prices. Bird feeders, houses, seed, suet, hardware, optics, plus unique accessories. FREE DELIVERY! Order online or call.
Our family honey farm has over 5,000 lavender plants and multiple bee hives. Our farm is chem-free; no pesticides or chemical fertilizers, for the health of our bees, plants, and you! We sell both honey and lavender products and have a bee swarm removal service.
Beekind Honey & Beekeeping - 54
Beekeeping Classes & Supplies
921 Gravenstein Hwy S, Sebastopol 707-824-2905
Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 10-4
www.beekind.com
Take one of our FREE Introduction to beekeeping classes or drop in to taste local and varietal honeys. Beekind offers unique gifts, candle making supplies, and much more.
Le Ballister’s Seed & Fertilizer
1250 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa 707-526-6733
Mon-Fri 8:30-5
www.leballistersseed.com
Seeds of all kinds for flowers, grasses, agricultural cover crops, erosion control and pastures. Commercial & organic fertilizer.
6225 Stony Point Rd @ Hwy 116, Cotati 707-792-9141 www.pondandgardennursery.com Open daily 9-5, closed Wed
California Flora Nursery - 4
Pond & Garden Nursery
2990 Somers St, Fulton 707-528-8813 www.calfloranursery.com Hours vary by season.
Full service nursery with an emphasis on ponds, dwarf conifers, koi and other pond dwelling fish and critters, pond supplies, pond cleaning and maintenance, and aquatic plants. We also carry books, garden art, misters and more. Like us on Facebook!
A small unconventional nursery devoted to natives and habitat gardening with an exceptional diversity of offerings. Most plants are propagated and grown on site since 1981.
Cloverdale Nursery - 5
The Seed Bank ~ 55
216 S. Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale 707-894-6654
Open 7 Days a Week www.cloverdalenursery.info
Where Plants, Community and Service are a way of life. We have something for every gardener...Unique Gifts • Succulents • Water Wise Plants • Pottery Fruit Trees • Veggies • Organic Soils & Fertilizers. Help us Celebrate our 1st Anniversary at our Spring Celebration Weekend of March 17 – 20. $200 Gift Certificate Raffle.
707-829-5284
800-371-0233
enchantingsweetpeas.com
Order online more than 40 Varieties of Gorgeous, Fragrant Sweet Pea Flower Seeds. Annual One Day Open House will be on Sunday, June 11th, 2017.
8687 Oak Grove Ave, Sebastopol 707-823-3420 www.hallbergbutterflygardens.org
By Appt. Wed-Sun, April-October
Open Garden Sunday, June 25, 2017 10-4 This event includes bird, insect, and wildflower experts, and children’s activities. Admission is free Habitat plants for sale including milkweed. Hallberg Butterfly Gardens is currently seeking docents and volunteers. Please call Leah @ 707-591-6967 if interested!
199 Petaluma Blvd. N, Petaluma 707-773-1336
www.rareseeds.com
We offer over 1,800 varieties of heirloom seeds, garlic, tools, books, and hundreds of local hand-made gifts, food items and homesteading supplies. Remember— everything we offer is pure, natural, and non-GMO!
3641 Main Street, Occidental
707-874-9567
www.westcountyherb.com
We carry the very freshest, highest-quality bulk herbs, plants, seeds, herbal products, candles, bees wax, seaweeds, soaps and more, all sourced locally from the beautiful land this special home.
21 W 7th Street, Santa Rosa CA www.westernfarmcenter.com
Mon-Sat 8:00-5:30, Sun 9:30-4:00
Locally owned for 50 years, Western Farm Center has everything you need for your beekeeping experience! Hive Supplies, Tools, Suits, and Literature. Also a large selection of pet supplies, and feed for the back yard farmers.
71 Brookwood Ave, Santa Rosa 707-576-0861 www.santarosa.wbu.com Mon-Sat 10– 6, Sun 11–4
Butterfly Attracting Plants
Courtesy of Louise Halberg, Hallberg’s Butterfly Garden, Graton 707-823-3420 www.hallbergbutterflygardens.org
All the flowers make a sensational garden, & female butterflies will pass through the garden nectaring .
• Asters
• Bidens
• Buddleia
• Centranthus
• Cosmos
• Daisies
• Lilacs
• Marigolds
• Sweet William
• Verbenas
• Wallflowers (Erysimums) • Zinnias
In the butterfly’s short life, the female will be looking for the specific larval food plants on which she must lay her eggs.
Common nectar plants:
Common larval food plants:
• Mourning Cloak: Willow
• Monarch: Milkweed
• Pipevine Swallowtail: Pipevine
• Tiger Swallowtail: Willow, Alder, Poplar,
Apple
• Anise Swallowtail: Carrot family: Anise,
Carrot, Bill, Fennel, Parsley
• Cabbage White: Cabbage family,
Nasturtium
• Buckeye: Plantain, Snapdragon family • West Coast Lady: Hollyhock family
• Painted Lady: Hollyhock family
• Skipper (4 kinds): Bunch Grasses
• Militta Crescent: Asters
• Gray Hairstreak: Hollyhock family
• Red Admiral: Stinging Nettles, Hops • Checkered Skipper: Hollyhock family
PHOTO by Darcie McNally
Enchanting Sweet Peas
Hallberg Butterfly Gardens - 8
West County Herb Company
Western Farm Center
Wild Birds Unlimited
We are trained to show you how to turn your yard into a birdfeeding habitat that not only brings song, color and life to your home, but also benefits the wild birds and the environment.
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