Native Gardening

[JBtheExplorer]

Bumble bees are loving my mailbox garden.

Blue flag iris and meadow anemone

Spiderwort

Mating flies

Bee on Lanceleaf coreopsis (and a mosquito)

Rabbit with a tick above its eye.

Spiderwort

Robber fly

 

[JBtheExplorer]

My native garden is 10 years old today! Here's how it started. Just 64 square feet.

As many of you know, I expanded quite a few times over the years. Mostly using seed I collected from the original section. I lost count, but I believe I have over 2,000 square feet today. Maybe even 2,500! Here's some of my favorite photos.

 

[SarahT]

Your garden is simply beautiful, and it's a contribution back to all of us in "the world". Thank you.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Photos from the garden this morning

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Red admiral on butterflyweed

Blue dasher

Eastern pondhawk

 

[Hound Heaven]

Bumble bees are loving my mailbox garden.
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Blue flag iris and meadow anemone
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Spiderwort
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Mating flies
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Bee on Lanceleaf coreopsis (and a mosquito)
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Rabbit with a tick above its eye.
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Spiderwort
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Robber fly
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Great pics as always, but I have to know if you were expecting those flies to do that or not

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Great pics as always, but I have to know if you were expecting those flies to do that or not

Yes! They were hovering like that for a while before I got the photo

 

[JBtheExplorer]

My first green soldier fly sighting!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Wild bergamot is blooming.

Purple coneflower and black-eyed susan

Found this interesting spider, too.

 

[j.w]

Wild bergamot is blooming.

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Purple coneflower and black-eyed susan
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Found this interesting spider, too.
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I looked up those spiders w/spines like that and says they are Spiney Orb Weavers. No idea which one that is tho. Cool looking

 

[JBtheExplorer]

I looked up those spiders w/spines like that and says they are Spiney Orb Weavers. No idea which one that is tho. Cool looking

Someone told me it looks like a Starbellied orb weaver and I think that's what it is. First time I've ever seen one.

 

[j.w]

Someone told me it looks like a Starbellied orb weaver and I think that's what it is. First time I've ever seen one.

Says it's in our area too! Never seen one tho.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Another interesting spider. Candy-striped spider

 

[JBtheExplorer]

So happy I can provide this for wildlife

 

[addy1]

We have gardens and flowers everywhere. Mostly native stuff.

Large fields of bergamot blooming etc, all planted for the bees I used to raise

No butterflies, minimal hummingbirds, but we do have native bees , bugs enjoying the feast.