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I caught the tail end of it.. I hope everyone is okay!

Any idea which species this is or which genus the wasp belongs to?

First, shout out to Calendula Farm, Earthworks and Woodbrook Native Plant Nursery and Pierce Conservation District; Great people with wealth of information about native plants and attracting wildlife to your yard!

I spot water young plants and that’s it. These all live off rainfall. Most of these are surprisingly easy to grow from seed using milk jugs. This was how I have been able to grow almost everything without breaking the bank.

Here’s some pictures taken this year, some of the plants that haven’t bloomed yet are farewell to spring, goldenrod, Douglas aster, pearly everlasting, common sneeze weed

1st: self heal, western red columbine, Oregon sunshine (one of the host plants for painted lady butterflies), rose/Henderson/meadow Checkermallow (host plant for gray hairstreak and checkered skipper butterflies), prairie smoke, California poppy, western yarrow, large flower collomia, meadow barley, prairie june grass

2nd: Penstemon venustus, Lance leaf coreopsis, Oregon sunshine, prairie smoke, California poppy, big leaf lupine, blanket flower, graceful cinquefoil, showy fleabane, western yarrow, prairie June grass, roemers fescue (likely a host plant for the woodland skipper butterfly)

3rd: Similar to the first pic

4th: Jacob’s ladder (Polemonium carneum)

5th: Oregon sunshine, California poppy, Penstemon wilcoxii

6th: Columbia Lily (Lilium columbianum)

7th: Oregon sunshine, Castilleja miniata (giant red paintbrush)

8th: Beach strawberry, common camas

9th: Meadow Checkermallow

10th: part of the garde

Nothing hits like an old rhododendron in bloom!