Welcome to June-time in our garden. As the roses fade we have some other wonderful flowers blooming. The stream orchid (Epipactis gigantea) is a California native orchid. The photo is a closeup; the flowers are only about a half inch.
The flowers of the Soap Plant (Chlorogalum) are also extremely small. Bumble bees love these; I'm always amazed to watch the fat bees light on and weigh down the delicate flowers.
A trill from guard-bird Maureen alerted us that Bambi was waiting in our neighbor's yard for us to leave so he could graze on George's delicious flowers and plants. Last week he ate nearly every leaf off our poor peach tree. Guess the fruit wasn't ripe enough for him, he left us those.
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Anise swallowtail butterflies, probably the ones that we raised and released in the past few months, have returned to lay eggs on our fennel. We caught one flitting about, and I managed to get a photo of her leaving some eggs.
Finally, the hummingbirds are back, and happily visiting flowers and feeders.
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What's growing in (and who's visiting) your garden this summer?
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