Dark-eyed junco showing its hunting techniques in my Phyla Nodiflora groundcover that is still growing in. Seems it’s working well already for birds to find the insects they need to feed baby birds. Kudos to the one Roly-Poly who gets away early in the video. #lippia #darkeyedjuncos #rolypoly #birds
A close-up picture of Frogfruit, Phyla nodiflora (also called Lippia, though it is no longer a Lippia) with a US penny for scale. The coin is between two flower clusters, with the individual flowers about the size of Abraham Lincoln's ear on the coin. The flowers are white with a yellow center, tiny, arranged in dense clusters around a purple core of compact bracts. The leaves cover the ground over old growth, each leaf a lime green and lightly fuzzy in extremely short, stiff plant hairs. The leaf shape is a slightly blunted lance shape with a moderately toothed edge. The leaves visible seem to be sprouting from old growth trailing stems that have become white with age.
Oh, this one's special. Not a sage, not tasty, but so ornamental. Phyla nodiflora, formally a Lippia, is a very cute groundcover that kinda looks like clover with a very long blooming season and an odd history in landscaping 🧵
#photography #flowers #garden #verbena #phyla #nodiflora #lippia
