September Garden Bloggers' Wildlife Day

I'm several days late for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, and I don't even have that many blooms. This is not to say that September is a slow month in the garden, however. On the contrary, September seems to be the very best month of the entire year for wildlife in the garden - just not such a big month for the flowers. And now I'm finally going to get around to showing you both the wildlife and the flowers.

There's no wildlife visible in this first picture, but you can see most of the flowers: pale purplish California asters (Symphyotrichum chilense) in the lower left, the omnipresent golden rosillas (Helenium puberulum) just above them, and the last lingering yellow evening-primroses (Oenothera elata) and red cardinalflowers (Lobelia cardinalis) mingling in the ditch. In the center, the clustered field sedge (Carex praegracilis) is forming a rather delightfully lush, unmowed, lawn-like area.



( Frogs! Toads! Butterflies! Birds! )