Great Spangled Frittilary the Second

Caught this fellow in the backyard yesterday!  Resting on 'City Lights.'

'City Lights' in a shady backyard!
:-)
SG

Great Spangled Fritillary

Beautiful Butterfly!

Enjoy your day!  May it be "Spangled!"
SG

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Audacious 'Othello' Ligularia!

The Bold and the Beautiful!  :-)

Four years ago, I planted new little Ligularia 'Othello' seedlings I started during the wintertime.  Four years ago also began a severe two-year drought.

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 Ligularia enjoy, and thrive, in moist, humus-rich soil.  During those two drought-ridden summers, I watered was watering those little plants Very Often!  (They droop terribly when they are dry!)

The efforts paid off.  These past two years have been lovely, rainy with cool and temperate temperatures. 

  These little "papoose" flower bud bundles are wonderfully unique!

 

  

These plants are in the shady south/front of the house, while the others are in the backyard.

Happy Gardening!!
SG

Do I have the Best Neighbors in the world? (Even better than yours?) A "Shout Out!" Round

To get "Limbered up," you could listen to at least part of the song on this Youtube...


 Let's see if the tune fits the following!  ;-)


There was a tree...    Out by the drive...    The prettiest "little" tree...    That ever could be...

 A Tree by the drive, and the green grass grew all around, all around... and the green grass grew all around.


 And on that tree...    There was a branch...   The prettiest "little" branch...    That you ever did see...

A Branch on the tree, and the tree by the drive, and the green grass grew all around, all around... and the green grass grew all around.







Now that big branch...    Fell on the ground...    Fell right on the ground...    Now, how could that be...

The branch on the ground, It fell from the tree, the tree by the drive, and the green grass grew all around, all around... and the green grass grew all around.







Here came a neighbor...   Who spotted that branch...  the branch on the ground...   and he called for some help...

A neighbor saw the branch, the branch on the ground, it fell from the tree, the tree by the drive, and the green grass grew all around, all around... and the green grass grew all around.







The neighbor came to help...    with another chainsaw...   they got to work...    on the branch on the ground...

The neighbor came to help, a neighbor saw the branch, the branch on the ground, it fell from the tree, the tree by the drive, and the green grass grew all around, all around... and the green grass grew all around.


They cut the branch...  That pretty "little" branch...   that fell on the ground...   and now it's all gone...

They cut up the branch, the neighbor came to help, a neighbor saw the branch, it fell from the tree, the tree by the drive, and the green grass grew all around, all around... and the green grass grew all around.
 






They stacked all the pieces...  They cleaned up the mess...  from that prettiest "little" branch...    that fell on the ground...

They stacked all the pieces, from the sawed-up branch, the neighbor came to help, a neighbor saw the branch, it fell from the tree, the tree by the drive, and the green grass grew all around, all around... and the green grass grew all around
















When we got home...   There was that tree...    The prettiest "little" tree...    That you ever did see...

We would not have known,,,    had the pictures not been shown...    We love our neighbors so...
And the green grass grows all around, all around,.. and the green grass grows all around!







See?  We DO have the nicest, the best neighbor(friends) ever!!

Happy!

 What's to become of the tree?    We shall watch and see...

Have a great day!!
And hang on to a song.  :-)
SG