Ragweed Daze

The danglepod (Sesbania herbacea) is blooming...

I discovered this native plant growing wild in a meadow [last year] in Macon.

The butterflies seem happy with this new fabaceae.

Elephants foot flower (Elephantopus tomentosus)

Hyssop Leaf Thoroughwort (Eupatorium hyssopifolium)  with Red-banded Hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops)

 American lady visits society garlic

The long tailed skipper wants to be a society butterfly too.

A coupla sulfurs drinking from the same cup.

Lespadeeza bloom.

This Eastern Towhee made a fuss about me walking through the garden... 

Smart bird... difficult to photograph in the shadows.

 Winged sumac (Rhus copallinum ) bloom

and fruit.

Red Chenille (acalypha reptans), a future lawn alternative, for shade.

The ragweed is blooming... Dreadful stuff... I'm pulling all I see.

summer colours

This fence post lizard is wearing his best finery, hanging out on top of a sassafras post... Hoping to attract a new lover.







The brugmansias have begun to bloom.











The honey bees seem to be very interested in the datura....












Gulf fritillary butterflies have found the zinnias.










These red sunflowers are attracting plenty of polinators.











Got some painted lady butterflies...


Silver-spotted skipper enjoys the 7-minute itch plant, even if I don't...








These little yellow cherry tomatoes are sweet!






Most of the squash are through... I still have some, because I replanted some of the thinned plants...




The columbine seedlings are coming along.

Summer colour

We Finally did get some rain. Too late for the corn, but the flowers and the critters they attract are all doing well.

hummingbird visiting Uruguayan firecracker plant. (dicliptera suberecta)


Coupla spice bush swallowtails performing mating rituals

Talinum patens berries

wild lettuce seed

Coral Red honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) berries

Apostle lily (crinum sp.)

Gourd flower

I see you...

A Southern Garden in January

Why I garden in the South

sulfur yellow butterfly

A vegetable garden full of henbit is kind of embarrassing, but the butterflies like it fine... They say that God doesn't make junk....

Painted lady butterfly

The butterflies seem to be happy with the weeds...

gulf fritillary butterfly

Not just butterflies in the garden on this fine January day, I found a blue-tailed skink and a frog too!

The pictures click...

Mid-November

It's interesting that so many different ones were blossoming during October.
Comment from October's post.

Yeah... Middle Georgia is actually considered part of the sub-tropical south. We had our first frost last week, and there's still plenty of colour in the garden. I walked around with a camera today, in an attempt to record the mid-November garden...

To have butterflies, you need caterpillars.

Here's a coupla gulf frits.
(Be sure to click all the pics today!)

The butterflies they eventually become.

Close-up of the lantana that was so popular last month.

Sulfur yellow visits a turk's cap hibiscus

Zabulon Skipper

Buckeye Butterfly

Checkerspot butterfly

Catching grasshoppers.

Mustard greens.

Helianthus debilis

Spiderwort

Salvia coccinea

Monarda Punctata