At Twilight

I have been working in the garden, weeding and planting out a lot of young starts. The front porch is a jungle of potted plants, nearly all of which are divisions and seedlings of plants in the garden. There's only enough room for a path to the door and to reach the plants with a hose.

The weather is so, so much nicer than it was a month ago, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it stays that way. Still a little hot ~ upper 80's and I'm waiting for 70's so there's no "I'm in an oven" feeling in the middle of the afternoon.

The late afternoon light is fleeting and before you know it it's gone and it's twilight, time for the white flowers and evening bloomers to shine.

Garlic Chives

The Four o'clocks don't open until after six anyway.

Cardinal Flower is blooming in the ditches. This is a wildflower that I don't attempt to
cultivate anymore ~ Cardinal Flower grows wild here and I just let it do its own thing.

I do love the glimpses through the trees of the sun-bathed pastures at the end of the day ~ ours

and the neighbor's.

The Japanese Beetles were gone by August this year and so we have roses again. I think I have the neighbor's guineas to thank for that; there are more than a dozen of them and they cover great distances every day in search of food.

'Pink Pillar'

Rugosa

The longer I have this Knockout the more I appreciate it.
I like the hot pink color of the flowers with the Bidens.

I've been seeing Viceroys around for the last month and obviously the
Monarchs are here too. These cats are munching on Mexican Butterfly Weed.

Next year I'm going to put out more of this milkweed, as well as more parley for the Black Swallowtails. The Black Swallowtail cats really enjoyed the parsley! Now poor DH doesn't have any. lol So next year I'm going to put out rows of it, rather than one plant. It did better than the tomatoes, which were a miserable bust. The Black Swallowtails are gorgeous and I've enjoyed seeing them dancing and twirling about the garden.