Posts Tagged: poppies

Going Native

The first thing you notice when you walk up to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis, are the natives. Native plants, that is. California golden poppies and phacelia are among the plants sharing the "Pollination Habitat" bed. The golden poppies...

Bumble bee, Bombus vandykei, foraging on phacelia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bumble bee, Bombus vandykei, foraging on phacelia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Side view of bumble bee, Bombus vandykei. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Side view of bumble bee, Bombus vandykei. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Competition for the phacelia! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Competition for the phacelia! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A Banner Day

First it was the California poppies. Then the lupine.And now it's coreopsis, aka tickseed.It's seasonal blooming at the Campus Buzzway, a quarter-acre wildflower garden planted last fall at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road at UC Davis.A gift...

Trio of Banners

TRIO OF BANNERS will accent the Campus Buzzway at UC Davis. One features lupine, another California golden poppies, and the third, coreopsis or tickseed. These are the three plants featured in the quarter-acre garden. Here Garry Pearson, UC Davis greenhouse supervisor, adjusts a banner. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Coreopsis

COREOPSIS, aka tickseed, is blooming in the Campus Buzzway, a quarter-acre wildflower garden at UC Davis. A banner touts the blooms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bee on Coreopsis

HONEY BEE on coreopsis in the quarter-acre Campus Buzzway at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Frolicking in the Poppies

The Campus Buzzway is buzzing with bees.The quarter-acre wildflower garden, located by the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road at the University of California, Davis, was planted last fall with California golden poppies (the state flower), lupine and coreopsis...

Heading for Poppy

HONEY BEE, tongue extended, heads for a California golden poppy in the UC Davis Campus Buzzway. The Campus Buzzway is planted with poppies, lupine and coreopsis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Rolling in the Pollen

HONEY BEE cradled inside a poppy. The poppy is the California state flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Pollen Dust

COVERED with pollen, a honey bee emerges from a California poppy in the quarter-acre UC Davis Campus Buzzway. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Up, Up and Away

READY FOR FLIGHT, a honey bee crawls over the petals of a poppy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Town Hall meeting

The old Town Hall off Main Street, Vacaville, Calif., is the perfect backdrop for Iceland poppies (Papaver nudicaule) thriving in planters.The Iceland poppies, sometimes called arctic poppies, are native to northern Europe and North America. "Papaver" is the Greek word for "poppy." Last Sunday,...

Iceland Poppies

ICELAND POPPIES provide color to the backdrop of the old Town Hall in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Not an I-Pod

SEED PODS next to the Iceland poppies provide an artsy touch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Mason Bee

MASON BEE, a female from the genus Osmia (family Megachilidae), tucked inside an Iceland poppy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Foraging Bee

FORAGING HONEY BEE makes a pass over an Iceland poppy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Burst of Buds, Blooms and Bees

Next spring the Campus Buzzway at UC Davis will burst with buds, blooms and bees. The Campus Buzzway, a quarter-acre field of wildflowers, took root the third week of November when a crew planted golden poppies, lupine and coreopsis (tickseed). Or more precisely, Eschscholzia californica, Lupinus...

Planting

A CREW recently planted the Campus Buzzway, a quarter-acre field of golden poppies, lupine and coreoposis, on Bee Biology Road, next the the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis Colors

UC DAVIS colors of blue and gold will burst into bloom next spring at the Campus Buzzway. Here a crew plants coreopsis, golden poppies and lupine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Golden Moment

GOLDEN MOMENT--A honey bee nectars a California poppy, one of the three plants featured at the Campus Buzzway. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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