One of my pollinator gardens is coming along pretty nicely. Finally have a blooming hollyhock! All the others are native. #capecod #capecodgarden #nativeplants #pollinatorgarden #milkweed #mountainmint #coreopsis #beebalm #liatris #joepyeweed #globethistle #hollyhock #plants #flowers #nature #getoutside https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfw5QcDP7PC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Three of my corn plants are making flowers! They’re actually quite elegant plants in a garden setting, by the way. I recommend corn as a garden annual that you just so happen to get delicious treat out of. Plant them sporadically amongst other sun-loving plants of differing heights, spreads, and leaf shape and they’re very nice. I have them interspersed between my wild geranium, purple poppymallow, fireweed, rattlesnake master, purslane, smooth rose, chives, redroot amaranth, anise hyssop, field thistle, compass plant, Canada milk vetch, rough blazing star, and firewheel.
My whorled milkweed is also making flowers, my devil’s tongue cactus is in bloom, my cranberry is making exactly two cranberries, and my clammy groundcherry’s flowers are beginning to go to fruit! My sweet joepyeweed has grown up very tall this year and is making flowers too. My common milkweed is in bloom and smells absolutely heavenly. I don’t think I’d noticed the smell before but I got a whiff of it when I was checking up on that part of the garden, and had to put my nose to several of my plants in bloom until I got to the milkweed. Lovely.
I ate the first of many black raspberries. That one has made a very tall growing cane this year which I know is going to arch over at some point. It was very sneaky last year and managed to make two more of itself despite my efforts (trust me, you don’t want an overgrown raspberry patch), but I’m not going to let it this time. One of my maypops is almost long enough to try and train to grow up the dead pine tree that it is refusing to grow up on its own.
Our Joe Pye Weed ‘Little Joe’ was part of a downspout garden plan. ‘Little Joe’ is a dwarf cultivar that’s supposed to be smaller than the straight species at 3-4 feet. Our ‘Little Joe’ 😌 is 8 foot! Beautiful 💜 and very popular with the pollinators- lots of native bees, bumblebees and butterflies visited today.
The late season flowers of Eupatorium maculatum (joe pye weed) were attracting the bumblebees. This tall, architectural perennial has huge heads of dark pink-purple flowers on upright burgundy stems followed by fluffy seedheads that look good well into winter.
I’d like your opinion - swipe a few times to see this painting before I added the background. While it is still a little wet and may look better after it drys all the way I wonder if I should have left the sky off completely. I’ve ruined a lot of paintings at this stage . Also you will see another quick landscape I did of Big Sur. Do you think the water is ruined or do you like it. I’d really love to know. I know the ocean can be done much more realistically. I hope one day to paint it plein-air (instagram did not want to stop correcting plein- air! Please add! - or is it the iPad vocabulary that is missing it?). #artquestions #youropinioncounts #feedbackrequested #feedbackwanted #callingwatercolorexperts #watercoloropinion #arthelp #arthelps #arthelpsdaily #watercolorpainting #wildflowers #joepyeweed #eutrochiumpurpureum #marsviolet #bigsur #pleinairpainting #pleinairdreams #paintingtheskykingdom #etsysuccessstory #instawatercolorist https://www.instagram.com/p/CSgHDISMAE7/?utm_medium=tumblr
This Eastern Tiger Swallowtail has been hanging out with me all day. #butterfly #swallowtail #nativeplants #pollinators #toledo #ohio #419 #oldwestend #joepyeweed https://www.instagram.com/p/B0_a_QllLkj/?igshid=1hr7rmapdz4wj
Life / Death / Live life to the fullest . . . . . #monarchbutterfly #joepyeweed (at Long Island, NY) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTxV2JjJbEa/?utm_medium=tumblr
12 or so #monarch #butterflies on the #joepyeweed this afternoon #latesummer #newhampshiresummer #newhampshire #pollinators https://www.instagram.com/p/CTlLVkFgf1B/?utm_medium=tumblr
Joe Pye Weed is a great addition to any pollinator garden as it is a real magnet for attracting both bees and butterflies... See the full plant profile at - washingtongardener.blogspot.com or our YouTube channel. #gardendc #gardening #gardenvideo #flowers #nativeplants #pollinatorplant #pollinators #joepyeweed #eupatorium (at Washington D.C.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSe5W7LrjI4/?utm_medium=tumblr