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Natives and Butterflies 29April2022

The glorious weather continues here in Beautiful Alabama and the yard tasks are numerous.  There have been a lot of butterflies this week and I did manage a good photo of a Tiger Swallowtail.

My tomato and pepper plants are in the ground and growing.  Soon, I will be replacing the daffodils in containers with caladiums I recently purchased.

Here are my efforts for this week.

Here is another beautiful amaryllis.  I am getting better with the macro lens on my iphone13.

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Here is  roof iris.  It is so delicate.  These plants are now about 3 years old and well established in the Mens Garden.

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Another beautiful one is this Iris virginica.  I love the blue shades in this one.  I got these from the Birmingham Botanical Gardens and they have thrived in the Mens Garden.

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Here is the native that I promised.  This is a Golden Alexander.  It is a native perennial.  It is widespread in the eastern USA.  I bought this one at a native plant sale a few years ago.

It is a host plant for the Black Swallowtail butterfly.

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I have seen many butterflies this week.  Here I captured and Eastern Tiger Swallowtail getting nectar from this red azalea.

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Those are mine for the week.  Happy Gardening.  We have one more month before it begins to get really hot.  I have several projects to complete before then so wish me luck.

Don’t forget the Propagator.  He is the inspiration.

Irises, Columbines and More 22 April 2022

Greetings from the sunny Southeast USA.  The weather is definitely warming and the days are lengthening. The flowering plants are responding with glorious displays.  The work in the garden is never ending since the weeds enjoy this weather too.  The tree canopy is now filled with leaves that are a darker green.  I hope you have a chance to garden this weekend.

Here are my pictures for today.

First are two magnificent bearde iris.  The blue, white and peach varieties are my favorite.

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The second set are the columbines.  They have been blooming for a couple of weeks now but there is a blue and a pink now blooming.  They reseed and I have many around the yard.

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The hosta “Avocado” is fully displayed now.  It is in the most shaded part of the yard.  It is behing the hydrangeas and the paperbush which is probably the reason the deer have not found it.

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The Gerber daisies have appeared this past week and quickly began blooming.  They seem to have had little frost damage this year so I expect some abundant blooming.  This yellow is very striking.

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The Gaura is kept in a container just beside the car port.  It showed some green all winter but the last two weeks the blooming stems have appeared and now the blooms are emerging.  I love the way they “nod” when the bees land on them

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Lastly, here is a beautiful amaryllis.  There are several blooming this week.  These started out as a Christmas gift but I planted them in the yard.  Now, the reward is amaryllis in April

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Happy gardening y’all or as I heard in Texas last week – “Howdy”.

Don’t forget to look at the Propagator tomorrow.  He is the inspiration for my blog.