#Allium flowerhead.

Cheery yellow #snapdragons

Beautifully bold, #ScarlettRunner bean flowers.

Vividly vibrant, #zinnias

Pretty flowers, produced by purple sugar snap #peas

Lots of plant activity while I was away for the weekend. Sharing just a glimpse...including my Culver's Root (Veronicastrum virginicum) blooming & it also spread from last year.

I just ate so many tomatoes.
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Dapperific #dahlias on parade.

Cute little #bumblebee on a white #dahlia.

Carpenter-mimic leafcutter #bee (Megachile xylocopoides) on mistflower in the front #garden.

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Zippy #zinnias

#Centaurea triumfettii - squarrose #knapweed.
Centaur’ea is a reference to the Centaur Chiron who supposedly discovered the medicinal uses of a plant in Greece that came to be called Centaury.

Obedient plant and #bumblebee in the front garden.

The 2nd fave flowers that our resident #bumblebees love feeding at, are the #snapdragons.

FIRST #MONARCH (that I have seen) IN MY YARD!

Woooo!

I learned in a class the other day that particularly for common milkweed, it's important to plant it toward the edges of your property, because monarchs use *visual* cues to find it. So they really need to see the entire plant, not obscured by any other plants.

I let asclepias syriaca grow at-will in my front yard for this reason. Some of my #Asclepias gets to be between 10 and 13 feet tall!!!

This year, it's not blooming as robustly as I would expect, though. I'm not sure what's going on. (You can see in the video how the plant is blooming, and that is nowhere near normal.)

I have another monarch class coming up on the 19th -- with Chip Taylor his own self -- so I'm excited about that.

Lemony yellow, #daylily.

Home, finally. To the most beautiful front yard in the universe. (Not to mention: the least work intensive, and I haven’t watered it since 2023)
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