Last year, as I was timidly letting my backyard go wild, I started spotting something that looked like it would be flowers and not a tall grass or weeds, but hadn’t the faintest idea what they might be. Continue reading “Devil’s Paintbrush”
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Apis mellifera on Erigeron
Happy Pollinator
A pair of Scarlet Malachite Beetles
I am fairly sure these are black raspberry flowers.
I am losing the Dandelion War
tubular flowers
17th of May, office window view
strawberries everywhere followup
I did recall one thing last year, confirmed recently by the emerging yellow flowers. What I thought were strawberry runners under the clothesline are not entirely just garden strawberries. There are also what’s known as mock strawberries aka Indian strawberries or false strawberries. There are lots of medicinal uses for them, and I also read that in India, they are often considered an offering to the gods. I definitely like them as a groundcover, so that’s a gift to me! Continue reading “strawberries everywhere followup”