Everything is pretty overgrown and crowded, but it's just too hot to do much clearing out of extra flowers. The bee balm is just coming into bloom, though, and there are happy little insects everywhere! I could not get a good enough look at this guy to identify the pollinator...
I live in a fairly inner city area, but have worked hard to create an inviting habitat for birds, pollinators, and other critters. This year a neighborhood pair of hawks have become a family of four. I think they're Coopers' Hawks. The juveniles earlier in the spring would hop around the garden by the bird bath hunting little bugs I assume. Here are three of them having a refreshing stop at our birdbath! They visit at least once a day!
No ID available because this is only a web, but it's so little and intricate, and it was on the ground, barely longer than a blade of grass! I was using a mister nearby to help keep a hummingbird cool, and when I looked down, I saw this web! If the mister hadn't speckled it with all the tiny water droplets, I would never have known it was there. Any idea what kind of spider makes webs on the ground?
(6B Conn. US) image search tells me it’s horseweed but I want to know if I will regret leaving it and is she pretty?
Wanted to add a feature to attract more birds to our birdbaths. Used to have a fountain feature to move the water, but it finally died. I finally made a dripper using just an unused hanging basket and water wicking string. For some of my smaller, more shallow birdbaths, I used a smaller glass jar and hung it with twine.
Even if the birds don't end up being impressed, the pretty water droplets are calming for me to watch!
Can anyone please help identify what’s growing in my backyard? Any recommendations for removal or remedy
(6B Connecticut US) all these popped up around the edge of my yard. I’m fighting a lot of invasive species the previous home owner planted, so I‘m begging Mother Nature to let these babies take back what’s theirs.. as long as they’re native and fairly harmless.
This is a Wikipedia photo but I met one of these working in the yard. Startlingly pretty but of course I didn't have my phone ready to hand. They host on quite a wide variety of trees, from maples to pines.
I had it visit 5 times in 3 hours in our heat wave in Austria.
We are so excited to be seeing more and more snakes in the garden! This De Lay’s Brown Snake was quite content in the mulch just behind the Wild
Quinine (Parthenium integrifolium). This is in the herb patch and she seems to like a little plantain (Plantago major) as much as we do!
Okay so I have a gardened and I only grow veggies and flowers in it. I planted zinnias and sunflowers, and I also have strawberries and cantaloupe. But even if I wake up early in the morning I never find them. I got a piece of wood that was un treated and drilled holes into it hoping that some bees will brood in it and I put a shallow piece of water in front of it.