Creatures that fly Part I

Although it's called Butterfly Weed, I find more bees and wasps on A. tuberosa than anything else. They *love* it.
 

 

Buddleia davidii, on the other hand, grows so large there's enough nectar for all.
Here is an American Lady.
 

The most detailed shot that I got of the very intricate underwing patterns was of course this shot, where half of the wing is hidden by a leaf.
 

 

 

 

 

Like Peas in Pod

Like peas in a pod, all of these Iris japonica siblings are similar but not exactly alike. These finished blooming last week, just escaping the current heat wave which surely would have burnt them up. All have purple flowers, but some are a deep rich shade, while others have a grayish cast, which sounds ghastly but is surprisingly beautiful.
 

 

 

 

 

After several years, this is the first seedling not to have completely purple flowers. Looks kind of neat with its completely purple brother, doesn't it?
 

 

Blooming Friday

It's time for the hot weather plants: Rudbeckia, bee balm, daylilies and phlox.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monarda fistulosa 'Claire Grace'. The foliage of this bee balm has an outstanding fragrance, so strong that you can smell it when the rosettes are stepped on in winter. M. fistulosa is much more drought tolerant than didyma.
 

 

 

Daylily 'Buttered Popcorn' with 'Midnight' Penstemon and Purple Coneflower
 

Bali Watercolor
 

Verbena bonariensis with Four o' Clocks and Buddleia davidii 'Potter's Purple'
 

Phlox paniculata 'Robert Poore' looks cool even when the weather is hot enough
to melt an ice cream cone in less than five minutes.
 

Thank you to Katarina at roses and stuff for hosting Blooming Friday.

More Daylilies

Beautiful Edgings
 

Lavender Deal
 

Lavender Stardust
 

Ada May Musick
 

Hyperion
 

Pandora's Box
 

My trade tag says looks like is says Choo Choo Fantasy, but that one's a bicolor and this one obviously isn't. I like the pink color though, name or no name!
 

Always Baroque is well-named.
 

Everyone needs a lipstick red daylily.
 

This daylily is a seedling of Charlie Baker and Lavender Arrowhead. Four of these seedlings surprised me by blooming in their second year. I've already posted the picture of one of them that's more of a bluish purple than this one. I got the seeds from a gardening friend who in turn got them from a lifelong daylily hybridizer. The gardening friend had too many to start all of them herself so she passed some of them along to me.
This is Charlie Baker and this is Lavender Arrowhead.
 

A yellow noid that is absolutely wonderful: beautiful, refined and fragrant.
 

It's Daylily Time

After googling some images, I'm fairly certain this is Gentle Shepherd, considered to be one of the best of the whites. It's fragrant as well as beautiful.
 
 

 

 

I love pink daylilies, and Ah Youth is one of the best. The color is a true soft pink.
 

 

Lavender Deal
 

Fairy Tale Pink
 

 

This daylily is well-named, as the sparkle on the petals looks just like fairy dust.