Obedient plant at work. Needs loamy rich soil. Nice late season plant and the bees liked it. I may have a spot for them. This volunteer bloomed today. Possible 4 o'clock plant. I wasn't sure what it was, so I left it. Pretty vivid colors for a rainy day. Hummingbirds have pretty much left for the year. Only one sighting this week. Feeder stays out through the weekend for any stragglers.
We had one female in the septic field flower patch but not the feeder yesterday. These cool mornings must be telling to pack it in and head south. Already thinking of getting the seed feeders ready.
Chelone lyonii Turtle Heads that I planted the other day. The foliage is a much darker green and shiny. I don't think they get as tall either at 2-3' (those in the picture are babies so aren't nearly that tall right now).
One of the Giant Autumn Crocus that Midwinter gave me last year is flowering amonst one of the patches of first year lupines from the seeds I got from Well Seasoned . It is good to have gardening friends
Still hanging in there. Seems like they all turned to the sun as it made it up over the tree line. Lots of bees in here still.
I took this about a week ago. No clue what the purple flowers are but I am sure somebody will tell me. These are growing wild. This is an area we don't maintain. I am actually on an old logging road heading up to catch up with Chaz and Holly.
That is what the Wif said. She corrected my ID of some high meadow flowers as Asters. I was calling them Shasta daisies. Not big on flower ID.
I have to chime in and say those are "New England Asters", we have to get credit up here where it is due. We have many, although this year they have suffered from the drought at our place.
I have an abundance of tall white asters but the New England asters took a hit this year. The only place they are growing is the shrub garden that gets a fair amount of shade and I also watered that area on a regular basis (unlike where the white asters showed up). The golden rod doesn't care a bit whether there is drought or not.
Light blue asters in with the peony stems. All the tall white ones are gone by. I was pulling the cosmos seed heads off and found this large spider in some Queen Anne's lace. It was as big as a fingernail. Possible orb weaver? I'll check later when it warms up.
Being organic gardeners, we depend on natural predators for our insect pests. Spiders, snakes, toads, birds, & beneficial wasps are all welcomed. That particular spider there Jon, responds to the name "Charlotte".
Tall White and New England Asters with some Goldenrod. The blues are in the shade garden right next to the turtleheaads (you can just see some to the left of the first picture. The whites are in a small strip garden toward the fronr yard. I let the asters and goldenrod go around the yucca (the spikes to the right of the picture) to the ornamental pear tree.
Hmmm... you mean the small white flowers with the yellow centers are asters? I find them everywhere I don't want them to be and yank those "weeds" out. Always learning things here. But, I think I'll still pull them.
