Maybe Phacelia?I found at least four leaves full of my amazing tree hopper friends.Each leaf had a different set of adults or immatures.Adults get taken care of too.Babies!!!The leaf bends where the treehopper eggs were.Lace bugFrogfruit east of patio is doing well. Just moved a piece there this spring.Nice true bugDog flower highly mobile.Monarda future flower bud??Baptisia and okraRudbeckia maxima from Abby has a new leaf.A planthopper (Flatidae) on curly dock. First time for this family in the yard?? I used to see them regularly at home.Rattlesnake master still lives.Passionvine (seeds from Bartlesville) doing well in their second year.Tiny bee on butterfly milkweedHedeoma in with Datura.
A winecup from two summers ago came back.This true bug was relatively long and thin, and is standing on greeneyes. It flew away before I got a better picture.Bee fly at woodland edge!I’m hoping this could be inland sea oats that I seeded two years ago. Edit: Abby agrees.There’s a passionvine label here but this could also be butterfly pea?? We’ll find out!!Across the fence from mystery seedling is a known passionvine.Showy milkweed has survived its planting.I think these are the Mexican sage from Judy.A small bee on coreopsis.Mystery grass. I will note here when I hear back from the grass expert! (Then I can check here next year when I forget haha.). Edit: Mom says is the native little barley again. This one is a volunteer so I’m glad it does well here! Doesn’t get taller than the buffalo grass too so it can stay in the “lawn”.Close up.A small native legume whose name I’ve forgotten. There are quite a few growing in the rainbow beds and in the backyard at the edge of the patio.A lightning bug on a rain barrel.A leaf miner in the native coral honeysuckle!I think this dark spot is the larva, visible on underside of leaf. So tiny!Overall the coral honeysuckle is beginning to get going. This one was from Judy! Thanks Judy!A wild grape that we dug from the front to make room for strawberries. Joke’s on us because there was root left up front and it’s now taking over the rain barrel stand too.Another black nightshade. I think their tiny flowers are so pretty.Elderberry just starting.I think a mealy bug? On ironweed stem.Liatris mucronata from home from last summer.Dicanthelium grass that came along with Liatris.A tiny insect on ironweed.Purple coneflower working its way towards blooming.A mystery leaf.The mystery leaf above came along with the transplanted wedge leaf Euphorbia.
Mom sent us seeds and Gracie hair from home!!Gram wants to know what it’s about.Briar focus on family smells again. Gram prefers dog ear.Dog pleased. Cat interested in dog interest, would like dog food to be served though.A geometrid moth sitting on passionvine leaf.Left to right: New Kuroda, little finger, and Uzbek golden carrots. I picked the tiny one too early but it had a good taste.Paula took her plants home so I decided to see if the basil from the plant window prefers this spot where her houseplants were so happy.
Very excited to have a Gulf Fritillary in the yard!I hope it found the passionvine in the back yard.Made more salsa verde.The Chef helpfully cans.Ruff day gardening, need a nap.Mail call!! Fall/winter peas, trying new ones.A wildflower and an herb.Trying again on parsnip this year with fresh seeds.Winter indoor gardening ideas.
The Chef took very good care of the garden while I was on vacation and we got very, very, very, very lucky to get rain and no hail in our part of town. I’m poking at my potted plants right now. I’ll do another post later with the ground plants and raised beds and permanent planters.
Echineacea pallida left out all winter sprouted well (seeds from prairie moon nursery) a while back. I put some of the seedlings in the ground when I left and I’ll plant these last ones soon.The Chimayó peppers from Judy grew almost all these adult leaves. When I left each had one small adult leaf.Hungarian heart tomatoes to replace the one that got killed by the late frost. The seedlings emerged in the plant window so I put them outside yesterday when I got back.I repotted this eggplant right before I left. It has grown a lot. The other one I repotted hasn’t grown as much.Finally the culinary sage is starting to sprout! The only one that was up before now has an adult leaf.These passionvines are the ones where I just smooshed the fruit into a pot and left them out all winter.Liatris mucronata has a hilarious long leaf. I had another one in a bigger pot but it seems to be dying.This yucca now has three leaves! I also planted one in the ground when I left, because it was in the relatively shallow sprouting tray, and it is still alive in the ground.Planted the other tray of green milkweed (Asclepias virida) before I left and will plant these ones soon.Volunteer redbud dug from front raised beds. Eventually I’ll put it in the ground here in backyard. I don’t think it grew any taller, so hopefully it’s working on roots.I now have at least three baby columbines in the sprouting tray and one out in the yard. The package said direct seeding in fall was best, even over stratifying manually, so that’s what I did even for the trays. These babies look a lot like clover, especially when smaller, so I’ve had to be careful.
