Agastache 'Apricot Sprite'
Tim Vojt
out in Columbus, Ohio. "These are just a few garden moments that I
particularly liked this past summer. There's some crazy, clashing color
combinations, but I really like them."
Agapanthus (old Wayside clone)
Anemonopsis macrophylla
Coleus
Cornus kousa berry
Front containers
Gladiolus 'Boone'
Salvia 'Black and Blue', bronze fennel
Black swallowtail female
Day 2 in Tim Vojt's Columbus, Ohio, garden! Today he says, "In
addition to planting more flowers attractive to hummingbirds, I've been
focusing on adding plants to the gardens that are food sources for butterflies.
Besides the native Asclepias syriaca, the giants among which I am standing in
the photo, I've added several other species of milkweed to attract Monarch
butterflies. This is the first year that I've met with success: there were
several batches of Monarch caterpillars. I also planted dill, bronze fennel and
parsley as food plants for Black Swallowtail butterflies and had many, many
caterpillars as well. I planted both flat leaf and curly leaved parsley. The
butterflies passed over the more attractive curly leaved variety for the flat
leaved. You'll have to take a really close look to see the Black Swallowtail
chrysalis on the parsley photo. I really liked the foliage of all of these
plants in the garden, so I didn't feel I had to sacrifice aesthetics in order
to provide food for hungry caterpillars. Of course, having a garden that
attracts caterpillars also attracts predatory insects and birds.
Many-a-caterpillar met its Maker before becoming a beautiful, winged
creature."
Black swallowtail caterpillar
Black swallowtail chrysalis
Black swallowtail caterpillar
Black swallowtail male
Bumblebee on the caryopteris
Curly parsley
Monarch caterpillar
Monarch chrysalis
Monarch newly emerged
Praying mantis-brown
Praying mantis
Me and milkweed
Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'
A third and final (for now) day in Tim Vojt's garden in
Columbus! Today he says, "I really don't have a lot of winter interest in
the garden, although I am slowly trying to remedy that. I've never planted
ornamental Kale before, but I think it will become a tradition. Fall was not
especially colorful here, but a lot of annuals kept on flowering late into the
season. The hummingbirds loved the old-fashioned red Salvia and I did, too. In
the fall, the sun would strike the red flowers just right as I arrived home
from work: they positively glowed!"
Carex comans 'Bronzita'
Front hill, west side
Kale
Kale
Salvia
Sedum 'Angelina' in frost
Sedum 'Angelina', Thymus minus
Front hill, west side