Flowers and butterfly

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Finally getting some flowers around here and with them butterflies. I put a lot of new perennials in so they are small this year and not going to have many flower. Now next year they should be big, fat and flowery.


A few Campanula are showing a few heads.




The lilies I was given are in bloom.




The Coneflowers are drawing the butterflies.




And my new Passion Flower is blooming.

[ConsAreLiars]

1. I've tried stuff like that and never got close.

I like #4 as a crazed maniacal flower gone out tripping, and the last as a "bang, bang, Bang" in-your-face bit of plant belligerency. A great and unique way of doing the flower thing. Others as well.

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5. The flower bed is looking a bit

ragged and bare this year since they are all new perennials so I figured close ups would hide the ugly parts. It was a lot of misses for a few hits though. I just never post the failures. I also took pictures of leaves so I would know what is coming back next year to what will be weeds that keep trying to overtake everything.
The passion flowers does look like a "crazed maniacal flower gone out tripping" part of why I like it. Sounds like the wild critters will like the fruit too.

[trusty elf]

2. Gorgeous!

:thumbsup:

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6. Thank you.

[NV Whino]

3. The butterfly and number 4 are spectacular

That passion flower is beautiful. I've never seen one that color.

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4. It is called a

Lady Margaret Passion Flower. I'll have to bring it in for the winter but then I have to bring in my Hibiscus and Jasmine that I smuggled out of Florida every winter too.
The butterfly was very cooperative or hungry. It was still out on the Coneflower when I came out later in the day.