Garden Photos - Part 33

evie, I bet that we have the same thing then!!! this dwarfish purple one showed up amongst all my gardenveiw scarlet monarda's some years ago, and I had never remembered bying a dwarf purple! But, I liked it, so it stayed! I didn't get a good picture of it this year, I might have one from last.

Grampapa.... those are fantastic hummer shots!


JoAnn, that is a wonderful sunrise! you should paint it. It would make a great watercolor painting.

I had some minor surgery on Friday, so am now just taking it easy, no garden work for a few days or so. Just pictures. Here's a long view of the back yard.

Looks nice, Deb. Feel better!

Other way.

Thanks Victor!
This area is filling in.

The BF's wings have seen better days.

Again

This monarch eclosed this morning.

DH setting her free.

Went to the tree for a while

another side

Hibiscus starting

close up

deb, I love the atmosphere you've created in the yard. I'm keeping the pics for inspiration. We've similar tastes...though disparate talent! ;) I'm working on it....best wishes for a speedy recovery, sweet pea.

and vic, your shots always make me smile. so many of your blooms are picture-perfect.

grampapa, love that you name your birdie visitors. froggy didn't get one?

evie, i agree. monarda/rud is a gorgeous combo.

thanks for brightening my day, guys.

kim

ohoh! i do have a pic....little toads are rearing their heads. grampapa, i call this one Hopfrog. ;)

Thanks Kim, I'll have to check on my toads, don't think they started yet. Pretty.

Deb your gardens are beautiful. You know how I junes for those long views.
Hope mine looks like that in two years.

more going on in the garden than i thought today...little fuschia...peppermint something?

and i love this...

here she is with her friends

...another fuschia...

and what the heck is winding its way around ol' madura? epimedium? love the color combo, though. she stays!

Maybe tonight?

Brooklyngirl.
Be careful what you fall in love with.
I think,only my opinion but it looks like the devilishly invasive wild morning glory or strangle vine.hard to get rid of. I painted the leaves with Roundup because pulling does no good. New shoots sprout from the teenyest pieces of root.Next year it will be ten times bigger,if that is what it is. Maybe someone else can give you better news.

great shots all.... love the hummer & the butterfly is too cool

Loved the hummer pics---they zoom by me--I can never get one still! Jo Ann--loved the sky! Debi--love your gardens & monarch hatching. Kim---that does look like a bad vine, not those beauties that Pixie is growing. Someone gave me an invasive MG a few years ago, & I finally got rid of it. Here is some that is not invasive for me.

Thanks JoAnn and Robindog

Anyone like Yucca plants. I have one that had 11 scapes this year. BEV

I've never tried growing a Yucca..think they'd survive here?

Deb your long shot of your back yard is beautiful! Love the BF pics too!!

brooklyngirl I have the same fuschia, 'peppermint' something! LOL

Look at the pollen on this Bee's leg!

This Sunflower reminds me of crepe paper. LOL

Nice dark centered sunflower

'Blue Pygmy' delphinium

A few of my MG .....

different ones this year

Thanks Celeste. Love the blue of that delph.

doubt they will reseed.

Why don't the nicer ones reseed?

Pixie, I don't know why yuccas would not do well there. Look at this same one last winter. No pun intended but thier roots go to China!!!! BEV

Me too Deb, it's a dwarf but it's color is giagantic!

The ones you want to reseed won't.