Many of our pollinators rely on native plants to reprocuce.
Pipevine Swallowtail on it’s only host plant Aristolochia California; California Pipevine.
Cultivating our gardens with California native plants provides the food sources for caterpillars and other beneficial insects that are essential for their survival. Many of these caterpillars turn into the butterflies we so desire to see in our gardens. These caterpillars are also the #1 essential food source the survival of baby birds.
Monarch Butterfly caterpillar on narrow leaf milkweed
We planted this Asclepias fascicularis, Narrowleaf Milkweed, in College Greens and 3 months later we had Morarch caterpillars. They pupated right in the Milkweed several weeks later.
