Wednesday, August 13, 2025

A Backyard Walk, Part 1

 These days, my vegetables don't look great, but there are some flowers in the yard that are thriving. Here are a few of them. 

Wild snapdragon


I picked pears yesterday and found a few that weren't rotten or eaten by the deer.


Lantana


Tea Rose


Vinca


There are only a few hydrangea blooms left.


Black-eyed Susans, Maryland's State Flower


Behind the black-eyed susans are conflowers. Something eats the petals consistently. I never see anything that would explain it, but apparently, there's a beetle that comes out at night and eats petals.


Balloon flowers. These originally came from Ward's grandmother's yard.

Tune in next time for Part 2 of a Backyard Walk when I show you a few creepy-crawlies.


2 comments:

  1. How nice that you have blooming flowers from Ward's grandmother's home. I wish I had taken a couple of stems from Mom's camellia bushes to root for my yard.

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    1. We had a lot of balloon flowers at our old house, but none here. Ward's brother had some from their grandmother that he shared. So now we have a flower that we really like and from a special person.

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