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This dark red day lily has a name, but I don't know it. It was harvested from a day lily farm by the widow of the man who cultivated them. But it's beautiful, dark petals and deep golden center pops. It is a "spider lily" variety, known for their long narrow petals.
A monarch butterfly paid a visit to our mini urban garden, where we are growing pink echinacea coneflowers. We were delighted with this visit as this was the first time we ever had butterflies coming to pollinate our garden flowers. The monarch spent quite a bit of time sucking the nectar from each coneflower, what a feast!
When an adult butterfly lands on a flower to suck some delicious nectar through its proboscis, it accidentally gathers pollen on its body as it rubs against the anther. The butterfly rubs some of the pollen on the next flower it moves to and collects some more. Through this process, the butterfly is able to pollinate numerous flowers as it moves along. Pollination allows plants to reproduce by producing seeds.
This little pot of pansies sits at the entrance to my backyard gardens. There are five beds in what I call "the lower garden," so named because when I look out of my kitchen window, these beds are in the bottom half of the yard. So, in a photo, they would be lower than the gardens just beyond a rickety old fence that came with the house. I live in the middle of the second largest city in Michigan, so my flower beds truly are urban gardens.
From the old magnolia tree in my front garden...I took some budded branches and put them in a vase in my living room. I took this shot using just natural light, my dining room table and my favorite macro lens.
This Trumpet (sometimes called Aurelian) lily grows in a spot that has Walker's Low catmint in front and a rambunctious Annabelle hydrangea behind it. All three are fragrant, but this lily masks the other more gentle flowers. These are taller than I am, but, then, I'm 5'2".
These grow in a dark corner of my garden. But, they never fail to light that corner just as other flowers are fading.
my garden box is exploding with life, and all these flowers are from cheap supermarket seed. Amazing results
As seen from my backdoor stoop towards the backyard. It's autumn, but with a lot of watering, the color of summer hangs on. Mounds of marigolds are at their peak. October 3, 2021