Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱

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Retired from teaching but not from caring about all our kids’ futures. Hence still fighting battles I thought we won and trying to be less furious and more effective. Native gardening! Cheesehead.

Sorry for the blurry photo but a bee is just visible snuggling down behind white and bright fuchsia ray florets of a dahlia.
Red Cardinal Flower, Great Blue Lobelia and white Flat Topped Aster doing a rain garden version of the flag colors.
INat says Orange Tipped Wood Digger on Great Blue Lobelia
Bumblebee sleeping on the edge of a raspberry colored Monarda flower just beginning to blossom.
Basket of harvested tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers with one mangled green tomato courtesy of a spiteful squirrel.
Pink buds of Swamp Milkweed form a starburst pattern among light green lance shaped leaves.
Ripening tomatoes protected by plastic fruit containers. We shall see if it works!
Native Obedient plant starting its pale pink blooms.
Wooden garden bench framed by black metal arch, vines and lemon sunflowers.
Large bee on raspberry colored Monarda blossom.
Bright orange and black Monarch nectaring on lilac Rough Blazing Star.
Sun spotlighting the bright red flower spikes of Silene Regia, Royal Catchfly.
Small bee on a yellow calendula blossom.
The incomparable indefatigable Janine Melnitz!
Light lavender Big Leaved Aster beginning to bloom among pink Achillea.
Newly emerged cicada drying its pale green wings.
Lots of garlic drying on a screen balanced on a wagon in a garage.
Evening Sun sunflower standing tall with yellow, maroon and brown colors.
Large Black Swallowtail caterpillar hiding under beets and carrots on a hot day.
Swallowtail caterpillars feed on dill in veg garden.
Pale pink slender petals of Pale Purple Coneflower fanning out from a spiny dome of green ringed with red. Fibonacci queen!
Tall plant with maroon stems and pale green leaves beginning to bloom at bottom of purple spikes.
3 Swamp Milkweed, one beheaded, now protected with chicken wire. Watch this space?
New planting of Path Rush getting established.
Plugs of newly planted Path Rush twinkle in dappled shade.
White balloon flowers of Poke Milkweed hang down in bunches among green leaves.
Several enthusiastic volunteer light green seedlings growing happily in the rain garden. Possibly asters?
An unusual elongated Wild Garlic flower- the buds are maroon, and flowers light pink.
Pearly Everlasting plant with lots of hammocks made for baby caterpillars- a few green leaves with lots of grey brown spun web-like enclosures.
Pup who does not want to come in, watching for bunnies and watched over by the moon. Note she is lined up directly with the path through which she will rocket!
Cheery yellow Missouri Evening Primrose flower.
Handmade garden bench.
Light pink Bradbury’s Monarda blossoms above green and maroon sepals.
Spikes of native purple and white Sundial Lupine blooming above divided green foliage, in front of a fence.
Pink bracts below the beginnings of pink petals unfolding as Bradbury’s Monarda begins its show.
Large (no kidding) black and gold Carpenter Bee heading for purple salvia.
Green palm shaped leaves of Lupine surrounding a promising flower spike! Not sure why or how this plant rooted in and near a Big Bluestem but they seem to get along just fine.
Purple blooms of Woodland phlox stand out against light green fronds of Maidenhair fern.
Robin’s Plantain blooming light pink with a greenish yellow center, rising on long stems above a tight mass of curly green leaves.
Nearly blooming Robin”s Plantain promises light pink flowers.
Light pink Bradbury’s Monarda in bloom.
Robin’s Plantain buds, promising pink blossoms, hiding behind a rock. The rock is there as a pee target for neighborhood dogs, and seems to be working!
Species: tulips pale yellow with a touch of rose, amid pale grey-green strappy leaves.
Delicate lavender and white iris with touches of lemon yellow surrounded by green strappy leaves.
Soft spires of white tinged with pink atop multi green veined leaves.
Pink and white species tulips standing tall 2 days after being flattened by a frost.
Pink and white striped tulips leaning over from last night’s frost, but still blooming!
Jacob’s Ladder lavender blue flowers are head down right now, hopefully the sun will revive them.
Tiny white pendulums of sweet grass in flower, surrounded by strappy green leaves.
Delicate white serviceberry blossoms dotted with rain, against brown wood chips.