SEED SPIRE + MIRIDAE
AT SIERRA 2
Building Habitat with Miridae
This Seed Spires series is nestled in a habitat and teaching garden by landscape architecture firm Miridae at Sierra 2 Center for the Arts & Community —a regional incubator of the arts, education, culture, and community activities.
The garden and spire installation replaces a section of lawn with native annuals and perennials to support local pollinators and wildlife.
Photo by Theron Hollenbeck
Sierra 2 Seed Spires contain:
(clockwise from top left)
Narrow-leaf milkweed - crucial larval hosts to Monarchs, also host to Queen butterfly, Isabella Tiger Moth, Clio Tiger Moth and Hitched Arches moth
Dense-flowered lupine - attractive to birds, butterflies and bees, host to butterflies: Boisduval’s Blue and Silvery Blue
Blue-eyed grass - striking purple flowers with yellow centers, attractive to many kinds of pollinators
Clarkia - attractive to bees, likely host to several moth species
Succulent lupine - host to butterflies: West Coast Lady, Painted Lady, Gray Hairstreak, Acmon Blue, and Orange Sulphur
CA poppy - host to butterflies: Acmon Blue, Mormon Metalmark, Dotted Blue, Veined Blue, and Buckwheat Borer Moth
Phacelia - host to the Geranium Plume Moth
Calandrinia - attractive to bees