What is it?

So the two about foot tall flowers on the west bed in front of the porch have become a daily (ok, since the petals started showing, multiple times daily) ponderance I feel the need to lift.

I’ve done some comparisons.  I’ve sworn at a few plant ID sites that lack the details I wish I could input to maybe get a closer result.  Still, I am unsure.  Eventually, I hope, I’ll learn what they really are.

The last time I guessed something was a flower, it turned out to be a tree.  Last time I thought I found a certain larvae that would grow to be a butterfly, I instead had found a larvae that is growing to be a moth.  I’m obviously terrible at the guessing game, but knowing that doesn’t quiet my brain.

Any day now…any day…I will learn.

 

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A short tale of Damsels and Dragons

Despite knowing that Gardner has many wetlands, ponds and waterways, because we don’t really see any of it from even the upper story of our home, you wouldn’t consider our home sited terribly near any of them.  Yet if you look at one map that shows various water features, there’s quite a bit in our portion of the Greater Gardner Area, especially wetlands to the south and west.

We're in that area marked
The light blue patterned bits demarcate wetlands.  We live near Greenwood Hill.

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Updated the Plant Progress yesterday

I updated the 2018 Plantings page.

We’ve had another casualty, but some success as well (one noted by image yesterday).  We also ate our first blueberries and raspberries of the season (red and black).  It was still a bit soon for the blueberries we taste tested.  The strawberries keep getting raided by the critters before we get a chance.  To be fair, we have a lot more raspberry canes than we do fruiting strawberry plants so far.

A busy end to June.

Things were swimming along, and then a bunch of stuff fell in my lap.  Well, some I carted on a garden wagon uphill with one soft tire, but that’s a story I hope to tell soon.  *chuckles*

We’re due rain for later in the day tomorrow, so maybe I’ll finally wrap up some “drafts” that have been sitting to share what’s been happening here of late.

Time will tell.