The season is winding down, but blooms continue. I’m up to around 95 native flower, grass, and sedge species in this small suburban backyard. Brown eyed susan, annual sunflower, cutleaf coneflower, cardinal flower, and blue lobelia now steal the show as many summer flowers finish up.

by LobeliaTheCardinalis

15 Comments

  1. Simply gorgeous! Where does your garden grow?

  2. auspiciousjelly

    pollinator action must be absolutely insane!!!

  3. RelevantPop6886

    Beautiful!! I’m sure the wildlife thanks you🙂

  4. looking4info1956

    Absolutely beautiful ~ kinda took my breath away for a minute ~ not gonna lie. The variety of color and heights amazing. Especially like picture number 2. Would love to paint that one.

  5. ScarlettPuppy

    Such a beautiful place for nature you have made

  6. spikegang

    Inspiring! Do you know of a name for the type of small pond you have? I’d like to do something similar.

  7. Embarrassed_Reach543

    You should be proud. How do you go about keeping up on the cardinal flower? It needs a ton of water from the little i know?

  8. Prestigious-Grape-50

    So inspiring! Do you mostly use plants or seeds? Do you add every year or does it grow larger on its own? I’d love to work my way towards this

  9. PompatusOfHate

    Just gorgeous. I am curious whether you have to do a lot of pruning to keep everything looking this good?

  10. How is your cut leaf coneflower with bees right now? I have a patch that is swarmed with hundreds of bees the past couple weeks. The buzzing is crazy.

  11. jessica8jones

    With tiers of spotted bee balm looking fancy!

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