August 17-19: Continuing blooms, seeds, and late bloomers.

Today, when I came to the garden, I was sad to see that someone had just dumped the pansies on the ground, probably to use the container.

The fireworks weed's leaves are starting to turn color. Does anyone know the proper name of this plant?

A cluster of calico aster shows the somewhat disheveled arrangement of the petals and the variable color of the flower centers, some yellow, others purple.

Butter-and-eggs flowers bloom somewhat sparsely, as this is not the easiest place to grow!

The sun shines through the leaves of the Tree-of-Heaven.

Wild Lettuce buds promise to bloom soon.

Vetch pods are ripening, getting ready to "break" and disburse their seeds. This is one of the plants the pods of which snap open at the slightest touch, or even spontaneously, when they are ripe, shooting their seeds out away from the plant.

A thistle bud is starting to bloom. No tender buds these!

The ragweed's green flowers promise misery to those who suffer from allergies.

Seen close-up, the flower displays yellow pollon under the green "petal".

This view shows the pollon-bearing stamens even more clearly. My fingers give an idea of scale.

The Queen Anne's lace flowers are tightly curled as the seeds ripen.

Seen up close, it appears that the Queen Anne''s lace seeds will travel as tiny burrs, hitching a ride to a new place.

Delicate new hawthorn shoots unfurl and grow.

Small "thorns" at the base of the multi-leaf stems are remnants of the bud scale.

More Hawthorn forming more new leaves as the tree grows.

True thorns can be seen coming off of the hawthorn's trunk.

The evening primrose continues to produce its short-lived blooms and ripening seed pods.

Primrose flowers may be small compared with the plant, but they add a welcome yellow accent.

The pokeberry's clusters are long, numerous, and still green. The hawkweed's yellow flowers can be seen to the right.

The pokeweed flowers are very white, each one with a tiny green center that will become a berry.

The Horse-weed is in full bloom.

Some Horse-weed plants have gone to seed, with fluffy seed-heads full of seeds ready to ride the wind.

Seen up close, the horse-weed flowers look like tiny asters. A few have gone by and are developing fluff.

Here are the flowering branches springing forth from the neat rosettes seen earlier.

Hawk-weed flowers look a bit like dandelions and wild lettuce.

Goldenrod can be seen in yellow bud and fullflower

Wild morning glory flowers are very attractive to bees.

Bee on calico aster

Developing mugwort is still seen, but late as it is, has little chance.

Mugwort buds will develop into tiny flowers that appear to have no petals.

The calico aster has branched out fully, and is starting to produce flowers.

The burdock flowers have bloomed, and are now transforming themselves into burrs.

The nimblewill grass is forming seed,

Here, we can see the how difficult it is to gather Black Raspberries. This cluster shows one ripe berry, one already taken by the local wildlife, and four not yet ready. Anyone interested in harvesting ripe fruit woud havt to visit at least daily./

Raspberry leaves are green and non-committal.

I must admit that this photo is not in the wild garden, but in a parking lot nearby. The intent is to show wild morning glory climbing high at a nearby site.

This bindweed flower shows just the slightest hint of color.

Bindweed leaves are seen throughout the garden, as the vine twists and turns among the other plants.

Asian dayflower leaves are starting to show signs of insect damage.

Asian dayflowers bloom early in the day and, like only a few other flowers are true blue.