Globe Thistles are very attractive flowers for honeybees. The plants are perennials and are able to compete with the surrounding vegetation.
Category Archives: Flowers
Golden White Willow
Planted some Golden White Willow cuttings. They have taken off pretty good, though the Pokeweed is competing well.
Blackberry Harvest
Triple Crown and Chester Blackberries are currently being harvested every day. I have to pick them often and stay ahead of the Spotted wing drosophila fruit flies.
Hibiscus Syriacus
Hibiscus Syriacus is a species of a flowering shrub, that has many different cultivars available. The flowers are in abundance at this time of the year.
Double Rose of Sharon
Double Rose of Sharon has impressive summer flowers. These shrubs can be flower at a time of the year that not many other shrubs do.
Pristine Apples First Fruiting Year
The Pristine Apples are getting close to ripening. These apples should start to ripen this month and be my earliest eating apple of the year.
Purple Catalpa New Flush of Growth
It is easy to differentiate Purple Catalpas from the other Catalpas I have. The new growth is purple on this Hybrid Catalpa.
Shrub Buckeye
There are a lot of different species in the Aesculus genus. The shrubbier species will flower a lot sooner than the other tree species.
Golden Raintree Flowering
Some of my young Golden Raintrees are flowering. They attract insects, like Bumblebees.
Catalpa x Fargesii Ecos Strain
Catalpa x Fargesii that I am growing appears to be just a Catalpa Ovata, the Chinese Catalpa. So far I haven’t noticed any traits to differentiate this from my Chinese Catalpas.