The End of July

Everybody likes this salvia coccinea...

The hummingbirds are busy at first light when I step outdoors with my first cup of coffee... the butterflies wait until it warms up a little.

The centrosema is putting on a nice show again...

 Glass gem corn

Variegated corn... succession... planted the corn... as soon as the first planting matured...

Am trying to decide where to replant the glass gem... next.

showy crotalaria in bloom... seems early...

Commelina erecta... a native dayflower... very unlike that asiatic invasive

Couple more butterflies...

I dug this toad up while turning soil in the new vegetable section. He looks angry....

This one isn't so pissed... 

more july wildlife

I find that the hummingbirds prefer the small-flowered canna....

It may not have as spectacular of a flower as the large flowered types... but... who cares when the pay-off on the small-flowers is in attracting these sweeties?

And visiting the salvia...

I totally avoid feeders... I feel like they harm the critters... makes getting pics a bit more of a challenge, but I'm not putting out GMO products or poisoned bird food... or helping spread bird diseases...

 Pigweed caterpillar, I've never seen these b4.

harlequin bug eating pigweed-caterpillar

Phlox... with butterfly.

Butterfly visits swamp hibiscus.

St Andrews Cross (Hypericum hypericoides ssp.)

 

Rhynchosia minima, snout bean...a natural wildflower

Buckeye butterfly visits winter-sown echinacea

Toad lily with bee

 

House lizard...

 

Got a better pic of the bird on her nest...

Babies...

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