Outdoors at Brookside Gardens
/I try to take a few minutes before each shift volunteering at Brookside Gardens Wings of Fancy to walk around outside in the gardens. There is a lot going on in August. I am featuring some of my favorite things I noticed and photographed in this post.
Button bush and cone flowers and sunflowers – with and without bees.
Monarchs are more prevalent in the garden than they were earlier.
I can never resist checking the gingko tree near the conservatory. I like the way the leaves look outlined in gold of the morning sunshine.
There are always a lot of funnel spider webs in the low pines around the conservatory….and sometimes the spider is visible.
There are several kinds of datura in the garden.
I had never nptoced what the seed pod looked like before.
The bald cypress has the scale insects like it did last summer but seems healthy enough to survive. The cones are beginning to form.
This is the view from the ticket taker table for Wings of Fancy. I ended up doing the job when no one had signed up for it….a last minute change of plans.
There are milkweed plants close to the entrance to the caterpillar house and there are often insects on the plants other than caterpillars. When there are no visitors in the area…I roam around and take pictures; more on the caterpillars tomorrow.