Motley Monday - May 25, 2026

 Spintop Mango Blanketflower

I bought two of these at the FFA sale last year.  I missed the sale this year, they had it earlier than usual and I didn't check their site until too late. 

One lovely lettuce that snails didn't get. 

Lots of Hood June-bearing strawberries.  Small but very sweet.

I don't know where this foxglove came from, I've never planted any.  The photo on the right shows the hole nectar robbing bees left.  Bees to large to get to the nectar will chew holes.  Other bees are learning  that the holes make it easy to reach the nectar and using them, which skips pollination.  Some populations of foxglove and columbine have reduced numbers of seeds. 

I love black cumin.  It's not a cumin at all, it's related to love-in-a-mist.  That's pretty easy to tell!  

This is love-in-the-mist. 

As fat as this bumblebee is, it has no trouble getting into the Dazzler penstemon blooms.