Flowers and butterflies Abundant

We just released the 12th monarch butterfly today, with many more on the way. Plenty of flowers around for them to enjoy, and lots of milkweeds to lay eggs on. Here’s some of what’s blooming.

More Delphinium, and the first Purple Coneflowers.
Shasta daisies in background

Common Milkweed and Delphinium, with
Gloriosa Daisy just starting

Love the Asiatic Lilies

Evening primrose is pretty for a week or so

Front door

Cardinal Flowers just beginning. Cattails have formed

Love Astilbe, missed the Clematic behind them

Fireweed I think

I planted the tiger lilies behind the garden when
the area was just a weedy field.  Now the
neighbor's yard, but they leave them up.

Pretty Astilbe behind the Birch, Delphinium to
the side

First Cleome of the season.  A volunteer in the
compost bin.

Number Twelve is off

Moved this Coreopsis this spring from a place it had
been for 3 years without blooming.  Likes it
better here I guess

Stella D'Oro lilies in robust bloom

Monarda is back!

Sneaky Daylily in the woods

Red Dahlias on the wingwall