My Buddelia bushes have been hosting dozens of attractive visitors. I just went out and counted 12 butterflies and one hummingbird moth. I snapped pics of just a few visitors.
I have not seen a hummingbird yet, which is disappointing. Most years I see hummers all the time.
This Peruvian daffodil is also a bit disappointing. It has only one bloom. As lovely as it is, I was hoping for many more.
We have not gotten any of the rain predicted for the past week or so. I finally had to go out after work today and spend about an hour watering the plants I recently moved in the main gardens. I am only trying to keep them alive until it rains. At this point I am pretty tired of caring for my plants. Once my grass dies out, I have no desire to waste my energy caring for the gardens. Without green grass, they do not look good.
I do keep my deck containers watered. My Tropicanna whiskey barrels are looking good right now with their first blooms.
Up near the Tropicanna flower, you can see a dahlia that I inserted yesterday. I like to grow small containers of plants that I can use in my larger containers. This dahlia is gold with red stripes. I think they are perfect with the Tropicanna leaves.
Great butterfly pics!
ReplyDeleteI love your nasturtiums too.
That last dahlia is just gorgeous. We had some rain last week and it looked like it would rain today but that never happened. I went out and started cutting things back today- A lot of my Stella de Oro lilies have died way back already...and I cut back all the irises-maybe I should have done that earlier? Anyway, I also cut the hollyhocks back and laid the seed pods along the big fence hoping they will self seed.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I have missed most of a regular summer this year- xo Diana
I am happy with the butterfly bushes this year too. You have some lovely visitors there.
ReplyDeleteMy potted plants looks the best. Your containers are gorgeous. We had a storm go through here a few days ago and didn't the wind knock down 3 of my best coleus. Rats. The other gardens are weedy.
Have you heard of Sleeping Bear park? A local lady and her family are there on vacation and it looks awesome.
The dahlia is beautiful. The rest of your flowers look great. You've been doing a great job of watering during the drought.
ReplyDeleteIt was 117° today in Phoenix, nothing in my yard looks good!
ReplyDeleteI'll send you some of MY hummers-they fight all the time and are driving me crazy, whizzing by my head chasing each other.
ReplyDeleteYour containers are really gorgeous.