7-18-20 VERMONT: July is slipping away. We’re almost a month past the summer solstice and the days will begin to shorten shortly [sorry] and by August 21, the sun will be halfway back to the Equator. Yesterday we had a foretaste of October, it was in the fifties with rain and damp—I built a fire. Today it’s in the 90’s. We had two rainy days and got a total of 1.45 inches, but we need ten times that much.
I dug up the roots of that cup plant and transplanted three chunks of them to the north terrace bed, and we’ll see if they survive and re-grow.
Butterflies are everywhere, especially the milkweed, the common, native ones and the garden milkweeds.
I planted two blue star flowers, Amsonia tabernaemontana, one Geum ‘Blazing Sunset’ avens, and one Penstemon digitalis, red beardtongue in place of the cup plant.
New blooms: pickerel weed, phlox, more filipendula.
Black Swallowtail. It's butterfly season.
Nice sunset a few nights ago.
Common Wood Nymph in the pasture.
Water plant-Pickerel weed.
Monarch butterfly on milkweed in the house garden.
White Admiral and friends on milkweed by the pond.
Great Spangled Fritillary.
These hostas are so perfumed that they are covered with bees.
I dug up the roots of that cup plant and transplanted three chunks of them to the north terrace bed, and we’ll see if they survive and re-grow.
Butterflies are everywhere, especially the milkweed, the common, native ones and the garden milkweeds.
I planted two blue star flowers, Amsonia tabernaemontana, one Geum ‘Blazing Sunset’ avens, and one Penstemon digitalis, red beardtongue in place of the cup plant.
New blooms: pickerel weed, phlox, more filipendula.
Black Swallowtail. It's butterfly season.
Nice sunset a few nights ago.
Common Wood Nymph in the pasture.
Water plant-Pickerel weed.
Monarch butterfly on milkweed in the house garden.
White Admiral and friends on milkweed by the pond.
Great Spangled Fritillary.
These hostas are so perfumed that they are covered with bees.
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