October 13, 2011
Panicum virgatum covered in dew.
Looks like a big spider web, or like a patch of frost or something… this native grass is pretty and I permit large swaths to grow in the vegetable garden.
Here’s a pic of switch grass sans dew.
October 11, 2011
Caught at first light, visiting the salvia microphylla.
Another tersa, this guy uses buttonweed as a host plant when he’s a hornworm, tomato worm looking caterpillar.
I caught one of these as a caterpillar last summer, and while he eventually crawled down off the plant into the sand, to make a cocoon, he never made the transtition into a moth.
October 10, 2011
Wrapped around a goldenrod, in my yard.
These r kewl wildflowers…
October 07, 2011
While a common offering at the bedding plant display, torenia made the transition to being a self-sowing annual, without over-running the flower bed the way that impatiens seem to.
October 06, 2011
Give a little rain, and get these huge blooms!
Didn’t get much height this year due to the lengthy drought, but there’s been blooms anyway.
October 05, 2011
Chrysopsis Chrysopsis gossypina or cottony goldenaster blooming in spite of the dry sand, desert conditions.
October 05, 2011
This is the perennial native that blooms in the Autumn.
The pastel blue is a show stopper.
This plant is a spreader, and can take over if we’re not vigilant.
October 04, 2011
Lookit the Vienna sausage plant…
I know there’s a weenie in here…
October 04, 2011
Buckwheat cakes will make you fat, or a little fatter, but wild buckwheat will cover everything in the garden. This stuff is as aggressive as morning glories and bindweed.
October 03, 2011
I had a big patch of this in the sand hill garden that I pulled when it spread too fast, stolons made it unsuitable to the garden. I was surprised that I eradicated it, I have a couple of patches of wood sunflower (in the same garden) that I’ve been pulling for a number of years, and it keeps returning…
October 03, 2011
October 01, 2011
Agalinis Is a very pretty native flower with a lot to recommend it for any meadow garden.
Unfortunately, it looks like a weed for most of the year, and may get exterminated from a meadow garden that’s over manicured.
Host plant to the buckeye butterfly, I’ve attempted re-introduction to those gardens where it had been eradicated… Without success, it doesn’t transplant, due to it’s quasi-parasitic relationship with the native grasses and lespedeza.
Winter picture of seedpods.
September 30, 2011
Y’all ‘member the white winged-stem I posted?
This is one of the yellow varieties, Verbesina alternifolia that is in bloom a few miles away from the first clump. Both are pretty driving past, but relatively rare… (I’ve only ever seen them in a small area).
As with the white, I grabbed a stray plant that was getting mowed… to add to the flowr garden.
