u/A-Plant-Guy

(inland suburban Connecticut, USA)

Prunus maritima

Finally getting a decent number! Didn’t know they needed cross pollination until a few years in. Planted some others which matured enough to really flower this year. The fruit is small and they look better than they taste but they’re not bad.

An absolute pollinator magnet when flowering and an insect predator magnet after that - lots of wasps on the hunt in early summer! Got some great photos I hope to post at some point.

(The plums photoed aren’t quite ripe yet)

I walk by it in the morning and afternoon and it catches my eye every time. Asclepias tuberosa can vary in its shade of orange but I don’t remember ever having one so saturated and bold. This photo doesn’t even do it justice.

Maybe they’re always like this and I’m just enjoying this season’s presentation 😂🤷🏻‍♂️.

(Connecticut, USA)

So many pollinator species stop by. Bees, wasps, beetles, flies, and butterflies. And I love the colors and textures. I look forward to these every year!

Rattlesnake master (white)
Liatris spicata (purple)
Helianthus helianthoides (yellow)
Against a backdrop of Inkberry

[Edited to add which plants are here]

Just in case a neighbor, friend, or family member wants some of my native plants which I would be happy to share. But maybe ten stacks is too many. Maybe…

(From r/LOTRmemes)

I was forced to post this here. Original thread

Cleaning off my bookshelves and thinking of all of you. These are the copies I’ve had since childhood.

(Connecticut, USA); Seems well maintained too 👀

(Connecticut, USA)

(Connecticut, USA)

Love these little gems when it rains.

(Connecticut, USA; suburban setting)

This sub gets a lot of perennial attention but trees and shrubs are just as important for pollinator and beneficial insect support! And not just because of their flowers!!

Trees and shrubs present here in the front yard of our 1/3 acre, including several not visible in this photo:
- Three beach plums
- fringe tree
- NJ tea
- button bush
- shrubby St John’s wort
- summersweet
- tulip poplar
- American persimmon
- Two bush cinquefoils (white flowering & yellow flowering)
- Two oakleaf hydrangea
- northern bayberry
- Virginia rose
- Sweetfern
- Cranberry viburnum
- [two non-native but delicious apple trees]
- northern bush honeysuckle
- scentless mock orange
- serviceberry
- black chokeberry
- (red) ninebark
- inkberry
- paper birch
- gray birch
- Annabelle hydrangea
- eastern redbud
- red maple
- pin oak

Piña colada was my favorite

(Connecticut, USA).

Fairly young eastern redbud with two main stems/trunks. Both are about 6-8’ high and arching. Diameter in the photo is 1”-1.5”. It is otherwise a very healthy, happy tree.

I’m not as familiar with its growth habit. Is this fairly normal and expected for redbuds or should we trim one back 1/3 this year and continue in the following seasons until it’s completely gone?

It’s the arching that has me confused because it doesn’t look like either one is a “leader” and headed straight up.

Thank you!

(Photos are after and before clearing weeds away from the trunk.)

(Connecticut, USA)

These photos don’t do it justice. It’s truly a delight. The rest of the year it looks frumpy and disheveled. But for these few weeks in June, it’s a favorite.

Philadelphus inodorus; scentless mock orange

Anyone else like to increase his work load?

Planted a ton of different seeds in my front yard. Last summer, it was mostly cosmos that bloomed, but now clover is king of the hill😺

About a 6’ wide street-adjacent space with nearly every northeast invasive plant (plus poison ivy for good measure):

- English ivy
- privet
- winged euonymus
- bittersweet
- multiflora rose
- barberry
- Norway maple

The only things not here (yet) are knotweed and mugwort.