busyEchinacea is beginning to bloom beside the barrel garden.
This is the barrel garden.
This pepper is beginning to ripen.
Moss rose is blooming.
So is gazania.
Million bells are blooming on the patio.
Here is the septic garden.
Cleome is blooming in the white garden.
Yucca is almost done blooming. I was out in the evening and surprised to discover that they are more fragrant at night. Since they are pollinated by moths, this makes sense, but I had not noticed it before.
Some of its flowers are setting seed. This also surprised me, because I didn't think yucca moths came this far north and also I've never seen their little holes (made by exiting caterpillars) on the pods. But perhaps their range is expanding, or some other moths may have done the duty.
Most of the morning glories have been eaten.
This is the cardinal nest in the hazelnut bush.
Here is the wildflower garden.
Echinacea is just putting out petals.
Prairie onions have heads.
Asters are blooming.
These black raspberries are in the blackberry patch.
The blackberries aren't ripe yet.
June 23 2017, 04:41:24 UTC 4 years ago
My own coneflowers are just beginning to bloom as well.
I love it when my own onions and garlic bloom. I have an elephant garlic plant that's blooming at the moment--it's easily four feet tall. I bought a head of elephant garlic at the grocery store but only the one lived.
Speaking of onions, I need to collect my chive seeds soon!
It only makes sense that the yucca moths' range would extend as far as their yuccas do. I have three young yuccas that I need to find a permanent home for and soon. I brought them home as "trash" in someone's discarded bag of raked leaves several falls ago.
Speaking of fragrant flowers my old-timey Lemon Lily (Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus) has begun to bloom. It opens in the evening rather than in the morning like most daylilies.
Would you like a start of it?
:^)