KWintheiser

@kwintheiser

Master Gardener in Minnesota. Nothing fancy, just gardening and outdoor photos from the suburbs (zone 5a) and up north (zone 3b) taken with an iPhone. 🌱

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KWintheiser@kwintheiser· 14d

Chokecherries are ripening.

Glossy red berries hang in clumps in front of green pointy leaves and gray branches.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· 14d

The chaos annual garden by the patio was a success so I’m going to keep it as an annual patch. The hummingbirds like it too.

Rusty metal garden stakes line a garden of zinnias, cosmos, sunflowers and others in various colors. It is along a patio next to brownish yellow deck posts.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· 15d

Busy morning at the Veronica flowers. Identification apps say it’s a Two-Spotted bumblebee on the left, Confusing bumblebee on the right.

A soft yellow and black bumblebee has specks of pollen on its legs. The flower is spiky lavender. A second bee is in the background.

A brighter yellow and black bumblebee is on a lavender purple flower.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· 17d

First time growing birdhouse gourds. Pretty cool, the flowers open in the evening.

Two white flowers on a vine with large green leaves. The plant is growing higher than the six foot metal trellis. The house siding is grayish green wood grained.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· 18d

Finally got the sign up for the new pollinator garden.

A orange monarch butterfly with black stripes and white dots sits on a reddish orange Mexican sunflower with yellow centers. The sign reads “Be a Pollinator Watcher.
To learn if a flower helps them, let the pollinators tell you. Watch quietly on a sunny day. If no hungry insect lands or hovers by a bloom, it likely offers no food. If one does, look closely. Can you see it drinking? Is it carrying pollen? FLOWERS for POLLINATORS
University of Minnesota Extension.” Behind the sign is a tan cement stone covering a pillar.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· 19d

Garden art = dragonfly perch

A blue dasher dragonfly is sitting on a piece of garden art . Below it is a pink cosmos and green foliage. At the top is a gray and tan patio.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· 19d

Fog in the morning, heat wave this afternoon.

Thick gray fog makes it hard to see the lily pads in the lake and trees on the shoreline.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· 21d

A hummingbird moth and a swallowtail butterfly enjoying the phlox.

A yellow and maroon moth gets nectar from a bubblegum pink flower. The wings move so fast it looks like a hummingbird.

A black and yellow butterfly mid left sits on pink and white flower. Other flowers in the picture are yellow daylilies, red bee balm, and white phlox.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· 22d

Enjoyed being part of a three garden Master Gardeners tour and getting inspiration from others. I especially liked the street garden with pollinator plants mixed with annuals and the mermaid by the water feature.

A long neat garden with various flowers including mountain mint and yellow marigolds.

A mermaid statue looks relaxed on a rock with greenery and red coleus behind her.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· 22d

Tully says it’s a good day for the garden tour and she’s sorry for stepping on hostas in the stumpery garden. Who am I kidding, she is not sorry.

A red and white Irish Setter holds a log in her mouth. In the back is a hosta and hydrangea garden with a whiskey barrel planter that has maroon coleus with lime green edges and annual lime green sedum. It’s hard to say if her expression means she’s truly sorry.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· 24d

I think this is a catbird nest in the dogwood. We did see a lot of catbirds in the dogwoods this year, especially at berry time. I like the catbird call.

In the center of the picture is a loosely woven nest in the dogwood branches. The young branches are red and the older branches are light brown. Lots of green leaves.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· 25d

It’s pink and yellow season in the boulevard garden.

A free form garden along a suburban street with magenta phlox, lilac wild bee balm and Joe Pye weed as the primary flowers. In the background is a Canada Red chokecherry with maroon leaves.

Farther up the street the primary flowers are gray-headed coneflowers, yellow daylilies, and golden black-eyed Susans.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· 26d

The winter sown Showy Milkweed paid off this year. A monarch butterfly and five caterpillars on two-year old plants, including the two in the second picture.

A orange monarch butterfly flies towards a milkweed with lots of long green leaves in a garden that needs to be weeded. If you zoom in you will see a caterpillar on grass by the milkweed, one on a leaf, and a tiny one on a right leaf.

Two caterpillars, one large and one small, are on the bottom of a green veiny leaf. Caterpillar droppings are at the base of the leaf below.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· 27d

The tomato and pumpkin row is doing pretty well considering how little I manage it.

A row of white trellises with lots of green tomato plants and a few green tomatoes. In front of it is a row of pumpkins with a couple yellow flowers peeking through.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· 28d

Northern garden update. The native plants are doing great with no supplemental watering. The daylilies I moved from the woodland edge turned out to be my least favorite (Stella d’Oro) so they will be removed. I’ll replace them with more natives.

A messy garden with native plants surrounded by hay. Lots of golden flowers line the garden.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· 29d

Year two of rewilding the lake shore at the lake place and native primrose popped up. Super smoky today…

A lakeshore with green lily pads and fairly still water. The sky is hazy. Pops of color from buttery yellow primrose flowers.

Primrose with green top, middle bright yellow flowers, and at the bottom are flowers past their prime. Lily pads in the background.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· Jul 16

The air is smoky from wildfires. Glad I did the hard gardening work a couple weeks ago. I call this my wild garden.

A view down large limestone steps. The air is hazy and looks brown with this camera. Lining the steps are dogwoods and daylilies on the left, viburnums, annual fountain grass and more daylilies on the right. Scattered are Joe Pye weed, wild bee balm, and self seeded phlox.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· Jul 15

Found a spider in milkweed and one on prairie sage.

A brown spotted spider hanging out in a silvery web on a green leaf with dried bits overhead.

A tan skinny spider on a silvery green leaf.

KWintheiser@kwintheiser· Jul 14

Two little bunnies come out every morning and evening to eat on our lawn. Someone asked me once how to keep bunnies from eating my flowers. I showed them all the clover in my lawn 🙂. This bunny liked the dandelions.