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.
New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
The native floral flag of autumn. I’d almost call it the Queen of Autumn Wildflowers at this rate. This was taken before I moved the Asters from the ruined old Mega Garden into the new House addition garden.
So that’s my excuse for you guys seeing different photos of my garden New England Asters twice shush.
New England Aster
(Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
Good to see these transplants settling into the garden so well. Also its amusing seeing their reseeding siblings sneaking into every wild/open terrain they can find.
I’m sure this is a hoverfly (a BIG one) though idk what species/genus… I need to sometime Google around to get some leads. It was quite content feeding on the New England Asters.
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