Counting bees

Photos and text by Sarah Phelan

Saturday was an adventure in bee counting for folks in the Bay Area,. Personally, I counted lots of honey bees in my back yard, all drawn there by my licorice-scented Agastache "Blue Fortune" or hyssop, as it's also known.
Out along the Alameda shoreline, I saw metallic green sweat bees and longhorn bees in profusion on the gum plants. and anoccasional bumble bee bizzed-whizzed past us as we wandered past huge stands of wild fennel. Happy bee count!

This is what Agastache "Blue Fortune" looks like, in case you are wondering.