Its still beautiful and packed with friends, but i know its on the downslope into fall.
Big pink Hibiscus, Cardinal flower, lavender agastache, massive joe pye still going strong!
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Saw some monarchs having some private time in the garden.
Taken 8/16/26
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Lol. She kills. Me.
Water dish near her out there.
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As august sets in. The hollyhock, liatris, packs it in and the poker plant and small coreopsis starts to fade, but the delphinium and dianthus are starting second bloom and the monarda brings all the hummingbirds and the massive joe pye and violet hyssop/agastache brings all the bumblers!
I even saw hardy plumbago blooming and the fist Mum has flowered (which is sad, but thay means the island will be ablaze with pink, white and yellow in the fall)
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Omg, this girl is so cute. She is also a sploot queen.
Taken 8/13/26 (OC)
I just saw another sleeping on a marigold and this guy getting a snack.
I live these things, and they love buddelia!
Makes me sad the big hollyhock is on the way down, amd the crocosmia is over, but there is always second life in the big pollinator garden.
Yellow poker, pink squirrel tail, joe pye, butterfly bush, crocosmia going strong and the purple big pink just opened its first flower
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The monarchs and the tiger swallowtails fight for garden supremacy, but in a mknarchs absence, this guy went to town!
Then a panoramic of the garden midday
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Just some corgi madness in front of the gardener. Odie is having a ball!
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The colors keep giving! None of the red gladiolus survived (along with my bkuebeard and half the bergamot, but the yellows overtook the other colors!
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Now that most of the crocosmia has shed its flowers, the lobelia is the new nice and red!
Starts with mongo, the biggest bumbler (not carpenter - actually havent seen many carpenter this year) ive ever seen, and then other garden buddies as i try to find her again.
Tiger swallowtail, sandhill cranes and an adorable corgi.
I think they want something from me, but i can quite figure it out, clever girl.
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Some flowers, a blast of color!
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One stem already died and went brown and now this one is looking like its following suit. Everything else in the garden looks great - as of now and the flowers look good.
The local wildlife likes to inspect my work, and ask if I have corn insurance.
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Tigers and monarchs and Hummingbirds, oh myyy
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A gorgeous tiger swallowtail stopping for some coneflower, it went next to the butterflies milkweed for a stop.
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This gal went full cartoon sploot and just hung out like this for 15 minutes.
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