What does your garden look like ... Today?

[FountainMan]

My coleuses are blooming! <3

 

[DeborahJane]

Wow! Magnificent Roadrunner

Just a little over a week since the inflorescence emerged from the banana plant, it already has several hands of bananas...seems like this bunch is producing very quickly.

This was July 27th

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And this was yesterday (August 6th)


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[JBtheExplorer]

A Giant Swallowtail, which is a specie that NEVER STOPS MOVING.

Various Skipper species.

An explosion of waterlilies in my pond today.

 

[MaryMary]

My coleuses are blooming

That means that it is time to take and root a few cuttings!! You can keep it as a houseplant over the winter, and then you'll have one ready to go outside next summer.

 

[BradinMichigan]

My little experiment with tractor supply deer and rabbit resistant mix. The larger plants in the background were started from seed in 2015. I have the makeshift fence around it to keep out the northern Michigan animals that like to munch. We have a ton of deer and rabbits! And we also have several beers and packs of coyotes in the area. I know the Bears will go after the sunflowers! I'm expecting the perennials to show up next year. Although, I know I overseeded!
This property backs up to the Huron National Forest. The plot is 40 acres total with forest and Fields. The fields are filled with milkweed and wild Bergamot. Although my dad does plant rye and oats for deer hunting. It's a total nature Fest

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Nodding Onion

Bumble bee. I noticed it was going behind the flowers rather than in them. Turns out, it's a behavior called nectar robbing.

Soldier beetles

Honey bee got ambushed by an Ambush bug.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Stiff Goldenrod has begun blooming.

 

[FountainMan]

I decided to rearrange the planters today and brought the pond up near the sitting area and moved one of the planters to the other end of the patio. In doing so I freed up more patio space.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Looking good @FountainMan

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Orange Sulphur butterfly, or Clouded Sulphur. Very hard to tell apart.

Monarch Butterflies. Had six at once earlier. That's a sign that the migration has likely begun.

Monarch caterpillar

Great Blue Lobelia

and in the middle of photographing everything in the gardens, a T-6 Texan flew over.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Gorgeous pics @JBtheExplorer ......as usual

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Great Spangled Fritillary.

Monarchs

Blue Dasher Dragonfly

My current best-looking section of the main native garden.

 

[FountainMan]

I went to our old house today to retrieve some landscaping and paver stones to boarder the patio garden. So far I like how it turned out. Still some plastic exposed but everything turned out great.

My pond fish are happy.

My pepper plants have their first pepper!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Monarch caterpillar on Swamp Milkweed

Common Sneezeweed and various pollinators.

Halloween Pennant dragonfly

An old, worn out Monarch. Its life will be ending very soon, but its children will be migrating to Mexico.

Here's a somewhat younger Monarch. This is another who will not make the journey south. She was busy depositing eggs on my Swamp Milkweed and Butterflyweed.

Skipper on Purple Coneflower.

Blue Dasher on a sedge leaf overhanging my pond.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Saw this Monarch today who was missing some white spots, giving it a very obvious black patch.