Gardens-In-The-Sand

white flowers

Peak wildflower bloom is coming... Soon every patch of weeds is going to be ablaze of colour...
It seems that the lead up is offering a high percentage of whites....

Some sites refer to this plant as Clinopodium georgianum, others use Clinopodium carolinianum...
Which ever you want to call it, this sand mint... Georgia savory... seems like it has a ton of potential.

dalea pinnata is a neat plant that I want to propagate so bad that I can taste it... Unfortunately, the seeds do not come up for me... I even tried shaking them up in a can of sand when someone suggested the seeds might need stratifying...
Nor have I been successful in transplanting dalea.... for a short lived perennial... this neat plant seems to live on the verge of disappearing...

Not sure where this rain lily came from...

Hog peanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata)... Seems to grow wild over much of Macon... And seems to have taken to the dry sand well enough too... of course, the weather this year has been the best that I can remember in the 20+ years that I've been in the area...

eupatorium serotinum... this plant has the sweetest smelling bloom!

Verbesina virginica

Here's another tall eupatorium, flowers look and smell the same as the E. serotinum, but look at the leaf! Earlier in the year... it looks like mugwort!
If I don't find the name with google real soon... Ima post it to 'all things plants' and let them id...
Edit: The best guess so far seems to be (Eupatorium ×pinnatifidum)

Eupatorium hyssopifolium

Here's another one that's throwing me off... Possibly Eupatorium glaucescens or eupatorium mohrii... and truth to tell... I may have both...

Ok... this one is easy... Sugar snap peas from the autumn garden...

Hardy cyclamen... not sure why they're white...

Flowering ginger... Really a poor choice for the sandhills... I planted the ginger under the overhang from the house... gets all the rain from the roof... and still... barely blooms!

pseudognaphalium obtusifolium Supposed to be host plant for the American Lady butterfly... Never actually see caterpillars... but have plenty of them flying in the garden... so... a keeper...

Liatris elegans

Moonflower (ipomoea alba)

Feels like Autumn...

I've admired the foliage on this oenonthra for a number of years... finally caught it in bloom...
Took a bit of doing to winnow out specifically which one this was.
We eventually settled on Oenothera filipes

The bluestem is colouring up nicely...

Threadleaf coreopsis and monarda.

Another pic of the threadleaf coreopsis (Coreopsis verticillata)

Coreopsis verticillata is on the state watch list

And... while naturally occurring here.... it is not an easy plant to increase, as the voles eat every bit of it that I attempt to grow in the garden! the plant in the picture is in a container...

Close up of the monarda punctata.

Pink Malvaviscus

euonymus americanus

Hibiscus coccineus and rudbeckia triloba

Spider... eating a butterfly on the lespadeeza...

Watermelon...

The pears are hanging heavily...

Caterpillars, butterflies, birds, other stuff

Buckeye butterfly and caterpillar... The cat is using agalinis purpurea as a host plant.

These treefrog tadpoles are too cute...

Wild sunflower with bee and goldfinch...

I have video posted

Clearer pic of goldfinch.

Fresh coat of paint on the house...

I really like this combination... even though the hibiscus wants more water than it's gettin, and the snake cotton is perfectly adapted to the droughty sandhill environment...

Trippy... I wish I'd been able to get more pics of this particular hawk moth...

datana caterpillars decimating sumac.

Swallowtails and salvia...

I think these guys are tigers... seeing a lot of black tiger swallowtails this year....

Cooler temps

The temps have broke, we're even getting a bit of precip... the plants are happy...

White swamp hibiscus with snake cotton background.... don't you love it when the plants match?

One of the crinums I've collected...

Took this spigelia pic this morning...

These hawk moths have been coming in the house at night to help me watch tv... I like them better in the garden...

I like having fabaceae in the garden... Partridge pea and sesbania.

2 more fabaceae, clitoria and centrosema

Of course, the rain came too late to help the corn... Had to pick it and hang it to dry a little early, as it was sprouting inside the ears on the stalk...