Garden Photos # 16

Some butterfly shots

Spicebush Swallowtail(I think)

nice Jen.. love the flutters ... JT is amazing.. and of course I love the BESV!!

That black one maybe an eastern tiger swallowtail I have to find the differences they look VERY similiar

Look at it in the sun, see the outline on top probably a defensive marking so birds won't eat it

another

There were so many on the butterfly bushes I couldn't snap pics fast enough

love this time of the year too.. tons of them!!

Very nice pictures Jen! The female black swallowtail looks almost identical to the spicebush swallowtail. I have a real hard time telling them apart as well! The way to tell is by looking at their orange spots down near the center bottom of the wings. The orange will have a black spot in the center if it is a Black Swallowtail and if it's a Spicebush there will just be some orange. The male spicebush has two orange spots on each side again with no black spot in the center. The male Black Swallowtail is easiest to tell because he has a lot of yellow going across the wings. :) They move pretty fast so I usually don't get a chance to ID them properly unless they are a male black swallowtail.

Oh and I forgot about the black form of the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail and that one looks very similar to the Spicebush!

Really great shots from everyone!!! Drooling here at all the colors! Gotta be quick....Robin, love that glad!!
Allison - your caladiums are fantastic! Makes me want to try them again. Bill sells the best ones! The first year I got them, they were gorgeous like yours, but the next year they didn't do much. It was something I did wrong and not the quality of his bulbs. His are awesome. Maybe they aren't right for the snowbird way of life.
Celeste - your Mountains Bow Down is really pretty!
Jen - love the butterfly pics! You and Meredith know your butterflies!

Bedtime........got to get up early! 'Night all and thanks for the beautiful bedtime picture stories! :)

thank you... and they like a lot of water Louise.. and I only over wintered once successfully

I love the deck on a late afternoon watching the Mponarcs on their nectar trail.They are as big as the house wrens still feeding chicks.

Jen the butterflies are awesome!!

I few HH are blooming...a strange colored one I almost think is a cross of it's own.

A deep maroon ....the bud black.

Redish pink

'Stack the Deck'

'Longlesson Cape Hart'

Cupid's Dart

'Little Fred'

'Stolen Treasure'

'Indy Long Legs' with balloon flowers

Indy up close

BF

'Lavender Stardust'

First ROS bloom.

I liked this Queen Anns Lace, it was pinkish instead of white and green.

Snaps

nice shots Celeste.. my ros has been blooming for weeks

Pink ones

ROS never starts until the first of Aug. here and that is my earliest one. Same thing with my hydrangea...just got my first bloom and it's turning blue. ^_^

'Westbourne Storm Cellar' with a dark beauty I can't find the tag for. Pretty sure it's 'Dark Circle'

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I love the balloons Pixie. Mine are new so not very showy

Thanks Jo, this year they are doing well, no flopping. :)

love the snaps too!

mine are so floppy.. I am ready to hack them down

This is all thats worth pixing.

Very pretty! You made me go see if my Black Beauty had started blooming...it has!

the fat a ground hog slid down the slope and took most of my BB stalks out... we caught him a few days later

what did you use to caught him allison?

very nice blooms all!

have a heart.. and apples.. but it was baitless because the chippies already cleared out the goodies.. just got lucky

baitless!! your rubbing my nose in it now:)