I had a bit of trouble deciding what plant or plants to post about for Gail's Wildflower Wednesday.
This is the first time I've had a tall thistle. It is a volunteer, and it came up in a great spot. It has been fun seeing a variety of insects on the blooms, sometimes quite a few at a time.
Gail's featured plant, Flowering Spurge has a nice long bloom time, and I see very small insects feeding on the blooms.
Salvia reflexa, lambsleaf sage is a native self sowing annual that I do not remember planting, but am glad it is here. It will kind of be my "feature" plant. It is in full sun here, but I also have some in partial shade. It may have originally come up where I garden across the street. The plants have been coming up for quite a few years.
Another name for it is lanceleaf sage.
I have several clumps of it in different areas of the yard. It is a nice filler. I need to be cutting the spent blooms off of this one.
I have seen butterflies, skippers and different kinds of bees on the tiny blooms.
Since I had trouble deciding, I wanted to include this photo of sweet coneflowers and other native plants. We have lots of yellow!
I am enjoying the yellow and purple of different kinds of flowers, such as the Helenium autumnale and Liatris aspera.
This skipper is a little larger than most I've been seeing.
Oh, wait, I needed to include Pale Indian Plantain! This is the second season for this very tall plant, the first of it blooming. I am tickled with the long bloom time and variety of pollinators it continues to draw.
During the last storm we had, it was knocked over, and I needed to prop it up. The meadow rue to the left is not as tall as it was last year.
I hope you are enjoying visits from pollinators on your blooms. The season sure is flying by for me! I am still busy watching our three year old granddaughter four days a week, and we have one or both grandsons on Saturdays. We just set a new schedule that will give us the third Saturday of the month off.
This is the first time I've had a tall thistle. It is a volunteer, and it came up in a great spot. It has been fun seeing a variety of insects on the blooms, sometimes quite a few at a time.
Gail's featured plant, Flowering Spurge has a nice long bloom time, and I see very small insects feeding on the blooms.
Salvia reflexa, lambsleaf sage is a native self sowing annual that I do not remember planting, but am glad it is here. It will kind of be my "feature" plant. It is in full sun here, but I also have some in partial shade. It may have originally come up where I garden across the street. The plants have been coming up for quite a few years.
Another name for it is lanceleaf sage.
I have several clumps of it in different areas of the yard. It is a nice filler. I need to be cutting the spent blooms off of this one.
I have seen butterflies, skippers and different kinds of bees on the tiny blooms.
Since I had trouble deciding, I wanted to include this photo of sweet coneflowers and other native plants. We have lots of yellow!
I am enjoying the yellow and purple of different kinds of flowers, such as the Helenium autumnale and Liatris aspera.
This skipper is a little larger than most I've been seeing.
Oh, wait, I needed to include Pale Indian Plantain! This is the second season for this very tall plant, the first of it blooming. I am tickled with the long bloom time and variety of pollinators it continues to draw.
During the last storm we had, it was knocked over, and I needed to prop it up. The meadow rue to the left is not as tall as it was last year.
I hope you are enjoying visits from pollinators on your blooms. The season sure is flying by for me! I am still busy watching our three year old granddaughter four days a week, and we have one or both grandsons on Saturdays. We just set a new schedule that will give us the third Saturday of the month off.