Wild Wild Woods

 

The Lonicera is blooming, now through November.  This perennial vine is a favorite of hummingbirds.

Culver's Root Veronicastrum virginicum is found growing in wetlands and wet prairies. The individual flowers are comprised of four fuse...

 

Before June, dandelion flowers are one of a few important food source for pollinators, providing both nectar and pollen for bumblebees and h...

  New England Asters Symphyotrichum novae-angliae bloom along with the white and lavender  colored asters around the pond.   They add to the...

  The asters are abuzz with pollinators.  While standing among the wildflowers, I hear the buzzing as loud and pleasant.  There are many Pan...

The flowers of Evening Primrose Oenothera biennis close in the daytime when sunlight would heat them, and open later when dusk falls. This ...

Sitting near the pond, one can gaze out at flowering plants among the green grasses, rushes, and reeds.  Mountain Mint, Swamp Milkweed, and ...

Small yellow wildflowers, brightening the green grasses and rushes around the pond now, are River Loosestrife Lysimachia hybrida, or Lowland...

  To complement all the blue and purple flowers around the pond this week, the Goldenrod has unfurled its blooms.  Solidago  species, common...

This Mountain Mint plant supplied a meal for a ladybug.  Ladybugs, or Lady Beetles, are in the coccinellids family of beetles, not bugs.  M...

The  rose flowers of Swamp Milkweed  Asclepias incarnata  plants are blooming in several places along the shore around the pond.  Actually, ...

Blooming now in the riparian buffer around the pond - -  Virginia Mountain Mint,  Pycnanthemum virginianum.   Look for them as  2 or 3 fo...

Alfalfa Medicago sativa is another forage crop grown around the world. But it escaped and now commonly sprouts along roads and degraded or...

Clover is a forage crop around the world.  But it readily escapes cultivation, so it is common in meadows and in disturbed places.  This pon...

Early Meadow Rue Thalictrum dioicum  is also called Quicksilver Weed.  The small flowers will open into fuzzy clusters.  The foliage is a...

The garden was aflutter last week with Painted Lady butterflies Vanessa cardui .  They were obsessed with the blossoms of Brazilian Verva...

While admiring the Cranesbill 'Karmina' in the gardens today, I noticed a fuzzy bee hurrying from one to another of the blooms th...