Hi everyone! It’s Cindy here. Summer is near the end and so is the growing season for the flowers in our yard. We still have a few daylilies blooming.
Rose colored daylily
Yellow daylily
Some of the hosta still have flowers too.
Hosta flowers
Another late bloomer in our yard is our non-vining clematis.
Clematis “Mrs. Robert Brydon”
The various bees around our yard seem to be working overtime collecting pollen.
Bumble bee on Joe Pye Weed
Bumble Bee on Blue Fortune Agastache
This little guy was so loaded down with pollen he could barely take off.
Now those are full saddle bags
Next I want to show you some dragonflies.
Orange Meadowhawk dragonfly
Orange Meadowhawk dragonfly on hypericum berry
Lastly I want to show you one of the many leopard frogs we have in our yard.
Leopard frog
There are so many of these frogs in the lawn that when I mow the lawn I have to go very slow around the edge of the grass (where they seem to be the most plentiful) to try not to squash or mow over them. We seem to be having a banner year for leopard frogs in our yard this year. It usually takes me about 2 hours to mow our lawn but since the frogs have appeared it’s taken me about 1/2 hour longer because I’ve had to go much slower. I want to get a bumper sticker for my tractor that says, “I Brake for Frogs”!
I hope you enjoyed this stroll around the garden today.
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Hari OM
Always love your macros!!! YAM xx
Your flowers and “nature” are just gorgeous!
Wow! Great pictures! Our day lilies are all done blooming now. We have lots of bumblebees on the big hydrangea bush, and the coneflowers too. But we rarely see honey bees anymore. A couple nights ago, Clem Kaddiddlehopper the toad met my ghostwriter at the front door when she got home from work! He said to say hello to the froggies in your yard!
Amazing photographs and we love the froggy our growing season is a lot longer than yours, we have stuff blooming and growing well into the Fall.
And naturally, we’ve just discovered blossoms bursting out all over now that the weather is warming up! Love those frogs, we hope they appreciate your kindness and concern about their well being. Probably not, but we do.
Most of our flowers are done for this year. Those frogs are cool, nice of you to be so careful
hugs
Mabel & Hilda
Taking a tour around your garden is always a joy. Thanks for sharing such beautiful images of Mother Nature.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what a beautiful post of posies and buggies and froggies. You have a most interesting place for snapping and exploring
Hugs Cecilia
Charlee: “Bugs! We always like to see bugs!”
Chaplin: “Especially if they somehow got in the house. Then we can chase them!”
I always enjoy the tours of your yard, your flowers are always lovely — And it’s good to see the bees enjoying them too!
oooh your flowers!! and how fabulous you caught that insects with the cam!!! we like the frog, nice to see animals what not live in our part of the world…
Your photos are simply exquisite!!! And your garden (love the day lilies!) is gorgeous.