Pacific Grove Monarchs

Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.

Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.

Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.

The grove holds the mild, fog-cooled climate the western monarch population requires for overwintering. Temperatures stay above freezing but rarely climb high enough to wake the butterflies fully. The Monterey pine and blue gum eucalyptus provide horizontal branches that hold the weight of a cluster through the season.

The cluster typically forms between mid-October and early November and disperses by late February. The densest viewing is November through January. Mornings before the air warms above about 55°F show the butterflies still in pendant clusters; midday shows them in flight.

The Monarch Grove Sanctuary is at 250 Ridge Road in Pacific Grove, on the south edge of the Monterey Peninsula. It is a 2.7-acre grove of Monterey pine and eucalyptus on the slope above the Pacific, about fifteen minutes by car from downtown Monterey.

Numbers vary widely year to year. The Xerces Society's Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count has tracked the population since 1997; the western count fell to under 30,000 in 2020 from millions in the 1980s, then partially recovered to over 200,000 in several recent years.

No. The Monarch Grove Sanctuary is owned by the City of Pacific Grove and is free to visit during daylight hours from October through February. Donations support the Friends of the Monarchs docent program and the maintenance of the grove.

The town adopted the name in the 1930s after the monarch overwintering colony became a source of local pride. In 1938 the city passed an ordinance setting a fine of $1,000 for disturbing a monarch within city limits. A children's butterfly parade has run in the schools since 1939.

It has been a meaningful gift for many of our customers with ties to the Monterey Peninsula. The grove is one of the small specific places people return to year after year. A Medium with a handwritten studio note works well as a remembrance; a Coaster Set carries the colour into everyday use.

The stained-glass treatment of the canopy sits well in California Coastal, Cottage, and warm Mid-Century Modern interiors. The orange-and-amber palette also reads as a single warm note in an otherwise green-and-cream room without competing with the surrounding pieces.

Yes. Biophilic design has held across both coastal and inland California rooms since the late 2010s. The Pacific Grove Monarchs tile carries enough warmth to anchor a small wall on its own, or to thread into a larger gallery of nature pieces.

The Large works over a console or a reading chair. Over a standard 84-inch sofa, the 4-tile Mural carries the wall; over a wider sectional, the 9-tile Mural is the format that fills the visual field.

Yes. Specify Dura Satin or Matte at checkout for vertical wet locations. Glossy is the right finish for framed wall art in a dry room and is the default if no finish is selected.

A soft microfibre cloth with plain water handles the work. No solvents, no abrasive pads. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface and lives in the surface itself, so it does not wear off the way a printed image would.

Yes. Every WenderVista painting is made by Reid Wender in his Knoxville studio and is not licensed from any other source. The Pacific Grove Monarchs tile carries the same hand and visual signature as the rest of the atlas.