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.
Purple coneflower and Blackeyed Susan. Two classic staples in the summer gardenscape
These 2 apple varieties were ripe in the orchard at the time of this photographing. They’re a little too dry and tart for me personally, but they make for a good blend of applejuice 👌
Tragically with how hectic our summer was we didn’t even get to make them into applejuice either oTL
Still ironic that this apple tree was producing THIS MANY apples considering it got pruned so hard this spring.
Road/ditchside wildflowers as the sun set.
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