Motley Monday - August 25, 2025
Another batch of random garden and other stuff photos.
Common Checkered Skipper
Skippers are classified as butterflies yet share some features with moths.
Not a bee, this is a Common Hoverfly. Not native to North America, but now they live everywhere but Antarctica. This one is on garlic chive flowers.
Wild Grapes (Vitis californica) will be turning color soon. They are too seedy to do much with, and I've yet to see any backyard wildlife eat any.
A Red Tomato on a Green Chair
My son did a couple of hours worth of weed-eating this weekend.
This is a partial done area of the Toss Garden. Under that mess of wild grapes is the strawberry bed. The rest of the mess is made up of end-of-summer knautia, several kinds of mint, black-eyed Susans... lot of things that will be back.
Speaking of black-eyed Susans... this little one survived the weed-eating!
A single perfect New Dawn climbing rose blossom. I think they fit the definition of "shell pink" perfectly.
Only a few daylilies are still blooming. Black-eyed Stella is one with multiple blooms.
Come back tomorrow to see what I found for this week's Tuesday Treasures!
...the Common Checkered Skipper would be welcomed in our garden.
ReplyDeleteI have lots of pollinating bees and flies, wasps, etc. but very few butterflies. I think I saw a monarch fly over the fence last week, and there have been two or three swallowtails. Other than that, cabbage whites. Good thing I don't grow cabbage/broccoli etc.! Let them pollinate.
DeleteYour "random garden and other stuff" photos are incredible! Love that 'New Dawn' Rose...sigh... And the pollinators, the grapes, and the tomato...yum!
ReplyDeletePhotos cut out the percentage of dead and ugly! It's not so depressing since my son weed-eated.
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