2021.06.10 garden
Overcast, light rain on and off
Observations
- 2 quick glimpses of American lady (?) butterfly - once flittering around bee balm, once on stoke's aster... both times it flew away quickly
- squash vine borer both, resting on baptisia
- swamp milkweed flowers began to bloom
- stokes asters: furrow bees, bumble bees
- purple coneflowers: multiple furrow bees on 1st bloom
- pale coneflower: furror bee methodically collecting pollen
- appalachian mountain mint: stink bug eggs (?) hatching under leaf
Plantings
- planted 1 carolina bushpea (behind wild quinine, where joe pye had been)
- planted 3 cardinal flowers from neighbor - left slope, front, between blue lobelia and swamp milkweed
- planted mystery sunflower from neighbor ("dug up from East Club Blvd") - broke leave from root, planted root, put leave (with tiny piece of root attached) in jar with water
