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| The vetch will bloom for weeks. |
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| Do you know what this is? |
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| The Mulberry looks like a vine with leaves of various shapes. |
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| Maple trees are doing their best in this competitive environment. |
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| The bittersweet looks deceptively innocent. |
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| The young tree-of-heaven is growing taller. |
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| The wood-sorrel is doing well in its corner against the building opposite, producing a number of flowers and seed pods. |
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| Here we have a scotch thistle, all prickery and growing taller. |
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| Two neat little rosettes of leaves look like cultivars left over from before. |
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| I call this plant, with its serrated leaves and stems that produce sparkles of white flowers as they elongate "fireworks weed" , after those fireworks that throw off sparkly lines. Do you know what the real name is? |
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| That rather prickly looking caterpillar seems to have suddenly changed into a female harlequin beetle, seen here feeding on a leaf. |
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| Here we see one of the dull orange ladybugs that seems to have replaced the lovely red-and-black ones I so enjoyed not too many years ago. |
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| /wild morning glory is popular with the bees! |
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| Two bugs, ignoring each other. |
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| About ten species can be seen here, with a buttercup in the center. |
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| Buttercups glow in the summer sun. |
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