More Pictures Around My Yard

 

The plant on the right with the small green heart shaped leaves is

an epimedium.  It gets tiny flowers in the spring and happens to

be one of my favorite plants.  These plants are hard to

find and are expensive.

The plant with the dark purple leaves is called 

huchera or coral bells.  They produce spikes of flowers 

in spring.  I have several varieties around the yard.

For fun I planted 2 packages of lupine seeds.  This plant 

grows for 1 year and blooms the second.  It produces tall

spikes of flowers and comes in array of colors.

What's left of the allium.

The kousa dogwood looks better this year.

Here are a bunch of pictures from our wildflower bed.

This bed marks our property line vs. the community

common ground area.  

Sweet Williams are the dark purple/pink flowers.

There is a ton of yarrow blooming.  Most of it is white

but there are plants that are a very pale lavender.

The goose wants food.

I spotted the first monarch butterfly flitting through the 

wildflowers.  I couldn't snap a photo quick enough.  The

swallowtail butterfly on the other hand cooperated.

Yarrow

Coreopsis

It's really had to get a decent picture of the entire bed.

Hollyhocks

The ducks like to hang out here with the goose.

Why ... because the bird seed I put in the feeders has

corn mixed in.  After I finish this bag of seeds

that's it until fall.  They will not be happy.