Same part of the creek photographed from the opposite sides of it (notice the trees with the distinctive curve from the base of their trunks). Basically discovered the south side of the creek would lead me away from the forest so had to trek ALL THE WAY back to the road the retrack my path from the north side.
The sunnier side of the creek (as well as the untouched large meadow which I tragically did not photograph) had a lot of the standard wildflowers; New England Aster, Poison Hemlock (? I was gonna ID as wild carrot but then went “wait a minute wild carrots don’t like wet habitats”), Goldenrod, and white wild aster.
First pic I had taken from that woodland walk livetweeting (and where I chose THE WRONG SIDE OF THE CREEK).
This forest is well known for heavy poison ivy colonies (luckily encountered less than I expected) and is heavily protected by a thicket barrier of Hawthorns/Pears in the East/South side.
Did an entire thread on twitter about repotting many of the houseplants (mainly the cacti/succulents) into larger (and mainly clay) flowerpots. The clay is key as the soil mix they’ve been put in is a bit more moisture retentive than I’d prefer for cacti. My Ferocactus I’m most proud of for their how much bigger they are from when they were little itty bitty seedings ;v; I need to make a knew before/after post for how much the Ferocacti grew. The one Echinopsis lost its rootball to probably rot so hopefully it’ll reroot in its new planter.
So many more houseplants need repotting before winter comes around the corner (Christmas Cacti, Pothos, Clivia, Dracanea to name the majority), its just getting around to the mess.
The lil hungry monarch caterpillar nomming away on the transplanted swamp milkweed
Cute lil wriggler ❤
Long after this photograph/tweet, at least EIGHT different monarch caterpillars were enjoying this milkweed plant! Though then they just… up and disappeared. What an enigma.
One of my remaining yet-to-be-removed Tiger Lilies in bloom.
The Asiatic Lily group one of the most susceptible groups to Red Lily Beetle (as evidenced by the foliar damage) so I’m taking them out to starve them out.
Tragic but needed. At least until some kind of parasitic wasp program for red lily beetle comes up for this province like it is for places like @pacificnorthwestdoodles‘s neighbourhood/State.
I still haven’t removed this plant yet tbh. tsk tsk tsk.
One of the last and tallest remaining members of my lily collection;
Lilium ‘Black Beauty’
A heirloom hybrid between L. henryi and L. speciosum. Its oriental lily blood appears to make it less appetizing to red lily beetle.
Amusing to think my ONLY little white coneflower among the regular coneflowers becomes the spider’s chosen haunt.
Beebalms, Hibiscus, Hemerocallis, and Milkweeds oh my.
Clematis ‘Jackamanii’ at the end of her show, while C. ‘Avant Garde’ at her midway of flowering picks up the slack elsewhere during the summer.
An old cultivar flower vs the new.
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