Butterfly bush monarch
This monarch hung around for probably half an hour to nectar on the butterfly bush by the porch. Squirt saw him and just stared!
This monarch hung around for probably half an hour to nectar on the butterfly bush by the porch. Squirt saw him and just stared!
Rich and I are empty nesters! :( After watching our Painted Lady caterpillars grow up and turn into butterflies, we decided to let them free today. Our backyard is so full of nectar, they weren’t quite sure which flower to fly to first! I got some cool pictures as they discovered their new world. Then one by one they all flew off…
I was finally home for long enough to be outside to take some pictures today! Most of my roses are blooming. Shown here is ‘Gemini’. A nice surprise was the bloom show put on by ‘Black Cherry’ this week…this was the rose that took the longest to start blooming, but now it is absolutely covered in beautiful red flowers! :) My new ‘Tuscan Sun’, ‘Purple Tiger’, and ‘Veteran’s Honor’ are supposed to arrive on Friday…just 6 days away…but who’s counting?