The vast majority of our pollinators are adapted to get nourishment only from native plants. The more complex your habitat garden, the greater the number of creatures that will find resources there.
Behind the new library in downtown Larkspur, something quietly transformative is beginning to take root. The newly-planted habitat garden, led by Refugia Marin, is turning a forgotten outdoor space into a living landscape filled with California native plants and opportunities for community connection.
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Why do flowers have the forms, colors and scents that they do? It’s not to please us! That is only an accidental side-effect of our sense organs’ similarities to those of certain other members of the animal kingdom.
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As recently as the 1980s, millions of monarch butterflies over-wintered at sites along the California coast, including in Marin. In recent years, citizen scientists have documented a plummeting population, now less than 3% of its historic size.
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