Caught some afternoon "popcorn" showers
A bit of rain encourages everything.
While the vegetables are long gone, any perennials that surived the drought have bloomed.
These echinacea are a coupla years old, the constant drought has resulted in some incredible dwarfing... of the ones that didn't die...
The clasping heliotrope are incredibly drought proof, and the tigerswallowtail butterfly is happy to feed on this native delight.
Tree-frog onna milkweed Asclepias syriaca... They aren't going to eat the monarchs, are they?
Speaking of which...
The monarchs are back!!
Monarchs take their time getting to middle GA. I saw some monarch caterpillars in the Spring, and was surprised by the unusual earliness of the sighting, I don't know what happened to those out of time babies... these guys are right on schedule.
Always fun watching butterfly mating rituals...
There were no persimmons last year, I'm seeing some fruit this year!
While the vegetables are long gone, any perennials that surived the drought have bloomed.
These echinacea are a coupla years old, the constant drought has resulted in some incredible dwarfing... of the ones that didn't die...
The clasping heliotrope are incredibly drought proof, and the tigerswallowtail butterfly is happy to feed on this native delight.
Tree-frog onna milkweed Asclepias syriaca... They aren't going to eat the monarchs, are they?
Speaking of which...
The monarchs are back!!
Monarchs take their time getting to middle GA. I saw some monarch caterpillars in the Spring, and was surprised by the unusual earliness of the sighting, I don't know what happened to those out of time babies... these guys are right on schedule.
Always fun watching butterfly mating rituals...
There were no persimmons last year, I'm seeing some fruit this year!
Labels: butterflies, drought
posted by Gardens-In-The-Sand at
10:04 AM
3 Comments:
Isn't that the way! Finally, you get some water, but it's too late to do much good. Those butterflies look happy. Good on the persimmons!
I planted several plants, this year, hoping to get food off them. I watered them, butthey sure didn't produce. I have a hot pepper on one plant, and harvested 4 banana peppers off another. That looks to be it.
You had a garden, and didn't include a few pics on "Morning Somewhere"?
I add cats to my garden blogs... Even though the killers do murder the garden help...
I planted the plants in with the cannas. Management tore out my garden the year before, to try and fix a drainage problem. Back then, I included pix now and then.
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