Yesterday was change MLB feeders day, but I also did some watering, since hot and dry is all we’re getting in the near future. While I was filling the water garden, it occurred to me that I needed to check on my Spicebush Doot-doots. The biggest had somehow escaped, presumably to find a good place to pupate, so I moved the other two. I’m considering bringing them both inside so I’ll actually get to see a butterfly. Anyway, they’re cute, and no bird poop at all, now.

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Great blue lobelia looks lovely; it’s not as striking as its red relative, but it’s beautiful nonetheless, and doing well.

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Several of the pods on the flowering okra were dry enough to harvest the seeds. They look a lot like mallow seeds, and I didn’t want to forget what they are by next spring, so…

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