…so pictures you shall have! The native pollinator garden expansion, container nature ponds with (almost) all native foraged species, the medicinal bed, and the native pollinator/food expansion. It’s been raining heavily, so no butterflies this morning but we have lots of bees and other pollinators out and about.
The micro orchard consists of 4 dwarf apples, 2 Flemish beauty pears, 4 blueberries, 1 nanny berry, 5 raspberries, 3 elderberries, 100+ strawberries (they’re actually spread through every garden as edible ground over), 1 huckleberry, 3 cherry bushes, 2 pots of sunchokes, and kale kingdoms (kale, strawberries, peas, and herbs). Each potter tree has bee balm, creeping thyme, and/strawberry conpanions.
Native pollinator expansion includes: 1 meadowsweet, 1 white false indigo, 6 swamp milkweed, 1 mallow rose, 6 obedient plants, 3 purple cone flowers, 3 anise hyssop (not strictly native, but not invasive either and they were free), 3 cardinal flowers, volunteer native asters, volunteer Joe pye, volunteer ironweed (so much, and some native grasses that came up all around.
Native pollinator/food expansion includes: 1 false blue indigo, 1 witch Hazel, 6 rainbow Swiss chard, 4 spinach, 2 ground cherries, 3 tomatillos, bee balm, spearmint (thanks, precious owner!), swamp milkweed, butterfly milkweed, strawberries, black eyed Susans, asters, blazing star, volunteer asters, volunteer goldenrod, volunteer ironweed, and a few others.
Still battling spearmint the previous owner planted in the ground, bittersweet, winter creeper, Johnson grass, and some others. But I see more and more native volunteers every year so I like to think I’m still doing something right, even if I don’t manage to it I’d the acreage of everything invasive.
Big Eddy the opossum isn’t featured, nor is Gary the groundhog, but Mikey the lizard and Terry Toad pictures posted for wildlife tax. A bonus box turtle also included for making y’all wait! And one cat I thought was dead but was actually high off his ass from the catnip in the medicinal bed.
by WhoWokeUpTheCat_633
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Mikey
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Not dead, just on one hell of a trip.
Way to deliver! These are great!
I have so so many lightning bugs in my yard (and in my house lol) that I was shocked to learn their numbers are dwindling.
This warms my heart! Thanks for sharing.
1st pic looks like red deadnettle (Lamium purpureum) native to Europe and Asia. Not sure where you are at, but just thought I would throw that out there.
That bee be like:
🥲 thanks for sharing!!! I love all the wildlife. I just celebrated 2 hummingbirds that started coming to my feeder, but it’s nothing compared to all this 😁
amazing. thank you
Magical 🥰✨
Frog ☺️
can I ask what region you’re in? i’m in love !!
If you can find a way to discourage cats from coming around then you may get to see even more wildlife! Cats take out so many small birds and lizards it’s insane.