Honey bees love New England Asters at the end of summer.
Tag: macro photography
Six on Saturday – 29/08/2020 -Lablab, my favourite botanical name
It’s the last weekend in August and the garden is already starting to take on an autumnal appearance. Tree leaves have started to turn yellow and even red, thanks in part to how dry July and August have been but also in response to shortening days and cooler nights. Some perennials are looked quite bedraggled […]
2019 – 12 Fave Garden Photos – Flowers and otherwise.
Here are a baker’s dozen of my favourite garden shots of 2019.
Silent Sunday – Monarch Mimic
The colouring on the Viceroy butterfly closely resembles that on the Monarch butterfly. The difference is in the black smile across the lower wing.
Six on Saturday – five bees and a strawberry
It’s the last long weekend of the summer – I’ll be relaxing but the bees are as busy as ever!
Six on Saturday – Volunteers & Vistas
All week we’ve been bombarded with heat wave warnings for this Canada Day long weekend – we’re lucky to live close enough to the lake to enjoy relatively cool breezes but I finished mot of my heavy chores Thursday evening. A sweet smell wafted over me while mowing and I realized the Milkweed was opening. […]
What I Learned Today – Stachys – another kind of corn
A good friend and wonderful gardener told me last weekend that she cuts off the flower stalks from Lamb’s Ears – Stachys byzantina! I was a bit aghast, but she said she found the flowers a distraction when the main attraction was the soft fuzzy leaves that form a woolly groundcover. Turns out she’s not […]
