Friday, July 30, 2010

Thursday, July 29, 2010

A hybrid daylily from Coral that is blooming in my yard now.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Queen Anne's Lace

Known as Queen Anne’s Lace (Daucus carota) or Wild Carrot, the plant provides us with numerous benefits:
  • The caterpillar of the Eastern Black Swallowtail butterfly feast from the leaves
  • Other insects drink the nectar
  • Other predatory insects (those who rid our gardens of unwanted insects such as aphids) are drawn to this flower.
  • The taproot was once familiar to us as the carrot and is edible. Its carrot is not consistent with the carrot we know now.
  • The leaves of the plant, however, are not edible and may irritate the skin. 

Friday, July 16, 2010

Oenothera is a genus of about 125 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous flowering plants, native to North and South America.
This Evening Primrose is in the north end of the Rock Garden in University Park.