Pictures from earlier this year

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Three pictures I'd taken earlier this spring but never got to posting.



Digitalis 'Pam's Choice'


Acer japonica aconitifolium - A really cool tree. Wish I had space.


Belamcanda chinensis

Pretty picture: Sweet Potato Vine flowers

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Saw this at work. Nice enough flowers though not typically grown for them. I don't actually think I'd seen them in person before this. Very clear that its more closely related to Morning Glories than to regular Potatoes.




I hope I get flowers on my own plants this year, and that they're a similar light colour against the dark leaves of 'Blacky'.

Monarch Butterflies at work

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AKA Part 2,

I generally dislike having a closing shift followed by a morning shift the next day but I got lucky last week. At the end of my closing shift I went to check on the Monarch pupa and was excited to see it should be hatching the next day. The chrysalis had darkened considerably and the wings could be seen through it. I checked on it first thing the next morning and found it out drying its wings.

More shade container combinations.

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I love how this container has come together. The Impatiens are fairly boring, I'll admit, but I mostly just added them (two cell packs) for a bit more colour and they've filled in very nicely. It was also my first time using 'Diamond Frost' Euphorbia which has also impressed me. For perennials I used Heuchera 'Cinnabar Silver', Carex 'Evergold', Athyrium otophorum ‘Okanum’ (I should have used a larger plant, it's grown in well but hasn't been able to keep up with the Impatiens so it's sort of lost in the whole thing), and a Toadlily (barely pictured here) to replace an Astilbe that had finished flowering. I think there's some Ivy in there somewhere too.

Monarch Caterpillars at work

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One benefit to carrying Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata ‘Soulmate’ at work is getting to see this as it happens. I hope I'm able to catch it emerging, it should be any day now.