Considering that I spent three out of my four days off for the long weekend, scraping, caulking, priming, and painting the west side of the house, I don’t have a great lot of garden-y stuff to post. Still, I found a couple of pretty critters, and flowers are always welcome!

Cute, tiny damsel. Looks like a female Fragile Forktail. I’ve seen Blue Dashers around the pond, Widow Skimmers and Common Whitetails around the south flowerbed and Sarah-Flah’s Giant No-Mow Flowerbed…I’ll take dragons and damsels wherever I can get them!

Eastern Tigers are also welcome anywhere, anytime!

Phlox, phlox, phlox! Just fun to say, even though I have no recollection of having planted these in the raised bed around the dogwood out front.

Nasturtium ‘Jewel Mix’. I’m enjoying these while I can because they don’t do well in the heat, and I expect them to crap out any time now.

Orange crocosmia. I have the red ‘Lucifer’, too, but these beauties are ‘Montbretia’.

I know some people don’t like them, but planted in a pot where they can’t seed themselves anywhere unwanted, morning glories are wonderful!

First of the hardy hibiscus have started! This one is (I think) Midnight Marvel.

Cranberry Crush or maybe Fireball (I don’t remember which I planted where, and they’re both red).

Not a lot of words, but lots of pretty!