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Nature Friday – Flowers and Insects

July 5, 2019 by Millie & Walter

Hi everyone! It’s Cindy here. There is always something new blooming in our yard so here are a few of the flowers we are enjoying right now. This first one I showed you when it was just starting to open but now it is more open and looks so pretty.

Pink Veronica

Amsonia

Amsonia and Ladies Mantle

Purple clematis
(if you enlarge the image you can see a tiny visitor above the center of the flower)

I’ve been having fun with my new camera and tried out the panorama feature on it. I didn’t have a wide angle lens on but was still happy with how the panorama turned out and was amazed at how there are no distortions in it. Here is a view of the east side of the perennial garden.

Perennial garden from the east side
(You can click on the picture to see a bigger image)

We have also started to see many butterflies moving around the garden. They are a bit difficult to catch with the camera since they move so fast and are never predictable in their movements. Here are a couple we found this week.

White Admiral Butterfly

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

I hope you enjoyed this stroll around our yard.

Join the Nature Friday Blog Hop

Today we are joining our friends Arty, Jakey and Rosy for their Nature Friday Blog Hop. You should pop over to their blog to see all the other posts.

Posted in Blogville, Critters, flower friday, flowers, gardening, Nature, Photography, shrubs | Tagged butterflies, flowering shrubs, flowers, Nature Friday, Photography, shrubs | 12 Comments

12 Responses

on July 5, 2019 at 6:51 pm | Reply Lee and Phod

What a beautiful garden you have.
on July 5, 2019 at 7:23 pm | Reply Molly the AireGirl

Your gardens and flowers are so beautiful! We haven’t seen many butterflies this summer.
on July 5, 2019 at 7:27 pm | Reply ATCAD

Everything is so pretty we love the Amsonia we don’t have that here.
on July 5, 2019 at 8:03 pm | Reply Astro & Mitzie

Cindy, All of it is so beautiful. and so colorful too.
I know it takes a lot of work, just the few pots I have
on the patio are enough to keep me busy.
You must enjoy sitting on the patio overlooking
the yard with a nice cup of coffee.

xo Linda Astro and Mitzie
on July 5, 2019 at 8:10 pm | Reply Xena and Lucy

What beautiful insects.
on July 5, 2019 at 8:36 pm | Reply chesterspaniel

Beautiful! I have veronica like that (although I had forgotten what it was called) and clemetis too. Your perennials look great! My garden is a mess since last summer I couldn’t do much work on it. Now it’s gone wild. (Don’t ever plant oregano unless you absolutely love it. I think it wants to take over the world!)

Thanks for the advice on the suet feeder. I’m going to ask hubby if he can make one like that. Shouldn’t be hard.

Chester says hi to Millie and Walter!
on July 5, 2019 at 8:38 pm | Reply The OP Pack

We LOVE walking around your beautiful garden with you. So many beautiful flowers and more.

Woos – Lightning, Misty, and Timber
- on July 6, 2019 at 12:13 am | Reply Dalton,Benji & Pipo aka Meezer’s Mews & Terrieristical Woofs
  
  Oh so pretty and the birds from previous post were furbulous!
on July 6, 2019 at 10:27 am | Reply Tails Around the Ranch

Wowsers, you guys sure have a beautiful and so incredibly maintained garden. Love the butterfly photos, too. All the flying visitors have zoomed to quickly to capture so far but hopefully they’ll stop to eat and drink soon. 🦋
on July 6, 2019 at 4:42 pm | Reply Bella, Roxy and

The flowers are gorgeous, but the butterflies are fabulous. Good work capturing them with the camera. We can never get very close to butterflies.
on July 6, 2019 at 10:21 pm | Reply The Gang at LLB

I know I say this every year, but I always love seeing your Summer blooms!!
on July 6, 2019 at 11:38 pm | Reply Idaho PugRanch

Such a beautiful garden!
hugs
Mabel & Hilda