Birds, blooms, and bugs
Today ’s picture are from Nancy Stewart .
I live near Syracuse , New York . I ’ve been garden most of my adult animation . ( I ’m now 84 eld honest-to-god . ) I am getting more into aboriginal plant and am get along to translate why they are so important . I have about one and a half acre to savor and have magnanimous flower beds and a omit vegetable garden !
All of the photos below were take in my backyard and reflect my interests : birds , picture taking , and gardening . I ’ve been taking photos for about 45 years — and that interest increases as I have more time to dedicate to it . My founder was a photographer and my mother was a gardener — so those are things I figured citizenry do .
The first photograph is of a pot of flowers on my terrace , and I love the color combining : pink calibrachoa(Calibrachoahybrid , zone 8–11 or as an annual ) andangelonia(Angeloniahybrid , Zones 8–10 or as an one-year ) , golden creeping Jenny(Lysimachianummularia‘Aurea ’ , Zones 3–10 ) , and blue evolvulus(Evolvulushybrid , Zones 10–11 or as an yearly ) .
I develop this cup and saucer cosmos(Cosmosbipinnatus‘Cupcakes ’ , annual ) from seeded player . It is a mixture I did n’t know I was planting , nor had I seen it before . It was the surprise of the summer .
The slight grasshopper on the pink cosmos could n’t have been more than 3/4 in long ! I am grateful the picture come out so well .
This coneflower(Echinacea , Zones 5–9 ) bud is pretty self - explanatory .
A bird that I could n’t identify graced the endearing salvia(Salvia guaranitica‘Black and Blue ’ , Zones 7–10 ) , also on my terrace . Those vast sage bloomed until just recently and were attractions for hummingbirds and bee , as well as this fellow , all summertime .
The bluebird ( this is the first yr I have ever seen a fairy bluebird ! ) is perch on a terrific birdbath that was hired man - sculpted by a local creative person . We have had it for years , and it is a treasure .
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