Saw my first robin today and trees buds are swelling. Even though most of the garden is under snow, spring is coming, it just looks a little different up north. #spring #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden 🌱🇨🇦
A close-up of a very small flying insect sitting on the end of a bamboo skewer that was intended as a potential perch for dragonflies
Since none of my native grasses amounted to much this year, I put out a few long bamboo skewers to create some additional landing spots in my pollinator garden
Uhhhhhh, success?
#nativeplants
#Canadiangarden
Bright green clumps of sedge are beginning to brown at the tops. The seed pods are shaped like a starburst and are a pale green that is beginning to brown
Not only did I find a relatively local greenhouse that promotes native plants on their website
But I discovered them in time to buy the morning star sedges I've been looking for during their end of season sale
#nativeplants
#Canadiangarden
Several black-eyed Susans lean at various angles, some blooms wilting while others are still vibrant. In the background, false sunflower (on the left) and coreopsis (on the right) grow among tree branches, mulch, and stones in a pollinator garden
A little sunshine in the shade for #Stunday
#Canadiangarden
#bloomscrolling
#nativeplants
#flowers
Top left: a close up of a stem of tiny buds of calico aster which hangs infront of a mound of rocks Top right: an overhead shot of a slowly opening flower of a New England aster Mid left: small ripening strawberries with red seeds (albion) grow alongside small white blossoms, renewed by the cooler temperatures we've had Mid right: a close up of a tiny bud on a Virginia mountain mint. Its stems are quite fuzzy compared to the leaves and a leg of a crane fly trails off a leaf on the left Bottom left: a blanket flower bud is starting to look more pronounced against the fuzzy green foliage of the rest of the plant Bottom right: small yellow flowers are emerging on a blue-stemmed goldenrod
For #SixonSaturday, proof that Fall will be another exciting season in my #Canadiangarden
Calico aster
New England aster
Albion strawberries
Virginia mountain mint
Blanket flower
Blue-stemmed goldenrod
#flowers
#nativeplants
#bloomscrolling
A series of photos of invertebrates I saw in my yard today: a bee on a stem of bright pink veronica; a candy-striped leafhopper rests on a bright green haskap leaf; a red admiral butterfly briefly rests on a false sunflower before quickly departing; a candy-striped leafhopper nymph, which is a vivid green with red markings, hides on the underside of a milkweed leaf; and an irritated spider retreats after I cleared away the dead foliage it was hiding behind
The backyard neighbours and visitors that I met today
#insects
#flowers
#nativeplants
#invertebrates
#Canadiangarden
An autumn joy sedum in the foreground has started blooming while the black-eyed Susans in the background, which began blooming in late July, have started to wilt
The changing of seasons means saying goodbye to some friends while welcoming the arrival of new ones
#pinkMon
#flowerreport
#Canadiangarden
A bumblebee is perched on top of the opening bud of a bachelor's button, trying to access its nectar. The bee is about the same size as the bud
Does this make my bud look small?
#insect
#flowers
#feedthebees
#Canadiangarden
Several insects swarm or crawl across the blue flowers and unopened buds of a bachelor's button/cornflower. These flowers, which were the first to open this spring, have started their fall blooming
Bachelor party
#insects
#flowers
#Canadiangarden
Two bumblebees sleep on a false sunflower on a cold and windy August morning
Bonus bombus
#Canadiangarden
#flowers
#insects
#bees
A bumblebee is about to take off from its perch on the purplish-blue flowers of a blue lobelia
Out here putting the "bee" in lobelia
#Canadiangarden
#nativeplants
#flowers
#insects
#bees
Many tall yellow cup plant flowers stand out against a bright blue sky. One flower on the right (about halfway down in the image) supports a large bumblebee
I don't know how I managed to capture only one bee in this shot when there were countless bees, a dozen cabbage whites and four or five monarchs swarming this huge patch of cup plant in my neighbourhood
I'm updating my plant wishlist
#nativeplants
#flowers
#insects
#bloomscrolling
#Canadiangarden
A bumblebee coated in loose pollen is hard to make out as it crawls across a sunflower head in the evening light
Oh, yeah, you blend
#sunflowers
#bees
#invertebrates
#Canadiangarden
Flower arrangement with dahlias, zinnias, bergamot, yarrow, scabiosa, echinacea, tomatillo, cerinthe.
Best of the garden mid August 🌼 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
A bumblebee appears to stand on its back legs to reach into a flower's centre in order to nectar
My new favourite bumblebee shot
It reminds me of Winnie the Pooh, standing on his tiptoes, reaching into a honeypot to get the last smackerel
(It even seems like it's wearing a little shirt, too)
#Canadiangarden
#bumblebees
#nativeplants
#flowers
"Busy as a bee" is no joke
Just look at those little legs!
#Canadiangarden
#savethebees
#sunflowers
#flowers
A large bumblebee flies toward the centre of a sunflower head where three smaller bees are already collecting pollen
"Incoming!"
#yellowThu
#sunflowers
#flowers
#bees
#feedthepollinators
#CanadianGarden
Several black-eyed Susans grow infront of the blooms of a drooping false sunflower
I've yet to see any pollinators really pay attention to these lovelies
For me, they're a much needed jolt of sunshine on dark days
#YellowThursday
#flowers
#CanadianGarden
#feedthepollinators
An orange soldier beetle climbs over a purple coneflower collecting pollen
A bumblebee crawls over the centre of a white coneflower
Yesterday it stormed and turned the pollinator-preferred sunflowers into hot, soggy messes
So the coneflowers bee-came* the stars of the yard today
(*sorry for the pun)
#bees
#flowers
#CanadianGarden
A bee collects pollen from a sunlit sunflower head
Just bees in my #Canadiangarden this morning
#flowers
#bees
#naturelover
Two green buds appeared behind a sunflower head since yesterday, resembling stubby bunny ears
Bunny ears
#Canadiangarden
#flowers
#sunflowers
#twosday
A snail with a brown-ringed white shell sticks to the leaf in a field
A red dragonfly (a ruddy darter?) rests on a wooden fence board
A bumblebee and what appears to be a leaf-cutter bee (?) flying towards a newly opened sunflower head
A two-horned tree hopper (?) briefly landed on the leaf of a hosta
Butterflies, bees, dragonflies, snails and more
My three-day weekend was filled with sightings of all kinds of #invertebrates
#macroMonday
#pollinatorpals
#Canadiangarden
Left side: a pollinator garden with sunflowers, black-eyed Susans, false sunflowers, and white cornflowers in bloom; not in bloom are young plants: little bluestem, purple prairie clover, Virginia mountain mint, butterfly weed, and calico aster. Photo taken August 4th Right side: the same garden, a week later; the young plants, while still not in bloom, have grown noticeably in the last week; there are also more blooms on the plants already flowering. Photo taken August 11th
The difference only a week makes
(a good reminder for a Monday?)
#nativeplants
#pollinatorfriendly
#flowerreport
#flowers
#Canadiangarden
#sunflowers
Except for the bottom left corner, which feature black-eyed Susans infront of some false sunflowers, the remaining four images show sunflowers at various stages of bloom (for example, top left is just opening while top right has been in bloom for several days
A supremely sunny #Stunday
#CanadianGarden
#BloomScrolling
#Flowers
A tall sunflower with several buds and heads, all facing different directions
"Blinkin! Fix your boobs, you look like a bleedin' Picasso"
#sunflowers
#flowers
#Canadiangarden
#feedthebees
Bees
So. Many. Bees
(And even more were circling the adjacent sunflowers)
#bees
#flowers
#Canadiangarden
A bee crawls across magenta coloured bee balm
A pollen dusted bee backs out of the pale purple flower of a hosta
The front garden is just buzzing this morning
The response to the bee balm makes me excited for all the new varieties I have planned for next season
#Canadiangarden
#flowerreport
#pollinators
#savethebees
Flower arrangement with cosmos, zinnia, dahlias, rudbeckia, monarda, cerinthe, bupleurum, statice, and sweet peas.
Best of the garden from the first week of August. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
