Photo Gallery: Wild Garden

Above, a milkweed flower's cluster of blooms is both beautiful and fragrant.  A bindweed flower shows a faint purple color. This flower, also known as a wild morning glory, is what has long since been bred into the true blue Morning Glory.

A female Harlequin Bug feeds from a leaf.

A black fly visits the garden.

Burdock flower in full bloom

Burdock flowers coming into bloom

Goldenrod flower clusters add a cheerful yellow note to the wild garden.

These orange ladybugs have replaced the bright red and black ladybugs we once knew.

This is a close-up of a bindweed flower that I like.

From bud to flower to developing berry, this shows the first stages in the development of the poke-weed berry cluster.

Two views of a monarch butterfly.

An evening primrose flower seen up close.

Horse-weed in full bloom.

More goldenrod pictures

Black raspberry cluster showing berries from green through ripening , ripe, and eaten.

An emerging calico aster flower shows the typical uneven spacing of the petals.

In this picture, we see bud, bloom and flower of the evening primrose.

This pokeweed cluster shows berries ripening from green to black-purple.

A purple vetch flower is translucent with sunlight.

This cluster of calico aster flowers shows centers of various shades of purple. The full range is from rich purple to bright yellow.

I like this picture for the fact that it shows the burdock burrs covered with icy snow against a background of drip-stained brick. It is clear that the party is well and truly over.

The whitely staring eye of a bindweed flower is surrounded by the clearly defined leaves of goldenrod and vetch and a flourish of possible horse-weed on the lower left., as well as the parent bindweed. The chaos of the garden is reduced to only a few elements here, while the predominating green ranges from the glaring white of the flower and bud to the deep black of the deepest shadows.

Here we see the snapdragon like flowers of the butter-and-eggs with both the orange and yellow/white colors showing. The scratchy variety of grasses and other plants give a hint of the intense competition in this garden.

The purple vetch flower shows its purple proudly, lit as it is from in front.

The brightness of the Primrose flowers blinds the eye of the camera a bit on a somewhat cloudy day, as though the light they have drawn from the sun is now shining from them.

Mushrooms falling into decay  have their own rather horrid fascination.

This is a picture of a developing poke berry cluster taken late in the season. The virginal white of the spring and early summer is now colored with purple well before the berries ripen. the stems are bright with color, and even the flowers are tinged with color. The berry clusters are shorter nowas are the days themselves.

The struggling maple tree is turning color in this late season photo.

Here we see the careless profusion of calico aster bloom.

I had to look close up, of course. This small cluster shows the color range of the centers of these flowers.

Fire-bright maple color adds an accent to the rather subdued colors of the other plants in the garden.

Even the hawthorn is turning color, displaying the default color of yellow.

Another maple is showing color that spreads from the middle to the edges, much like a display of fireworks in slow motion.

The bright colors of autumn are seen even here in the wild garden, displayed by the tiny, struggling maple.

Some of the tightly closed buds of the smartweed are opening oh-so-cautiously into brief white flowers.

Hidden under the lush foliage, a group of mushrooms has popped up and is starting to disintegrate.

Hawthorn leaves just starting to turn show delicate fractal patterns as the veins of the leaves retain their green a bit longer than the other leaf cells.

Scatter-petal calico asters clearly display the bold yellow and purple and all in-between centers in this closeup.

In response to the turning of the season from summer to fall, bittersweet leaves turn yellow,

A single vetch blossom adds a note of purple to the garden.

Two evening primrose flowers clearly show petals, stamens and pistols on a cloudy day, on which light is sufficient to reveal detail without being so intense as to obscure it with glare.

Perhapsthis was taken on the same cloudy day. Here, we see a clearly lit young flower with a yellow bud in the background ready to snap into bloom. 

Hawthorn again, yellow and green leaves along with others that hint at the delicate tracery of green on yellow of the change itself.

Here, we see the tight buds of smart-weed. have they bloomed, or are they waiting? Only they know for sure.

A cloverleaf displays a proud pattern on this leaf.

Here we see a boldly colored caterpillar.

This pansy is one of those in a container left from something else intended in this otherwise wild garden.

Here are more such pansies. I enjoyed the while they lasted.

This earl

Blooming dock flowers  are green in this photo,

Blackberry flowers continue their business in the wild garden.

Raspberries show several stages in one cluster.

In this deep close-up of a bindweed flower the faint lilac tinge can be seen along with the yellow of the flower center.

These two pictures show a deeply rich green view of the burdock. It was the result of an unintentional setting, but the rich color is worth preserving.

A budding Queen Anne's lace flower displays delicate tracery.

Heath Aster or Daisy Fleabene?

The flower cluster of wild lettuce is a spectacular bloom.

This delicate white flower will develop into the deep purple-black pokeberry clusters of late summer.

A thistle bloom is starting to emerge.

A bumblebee is visiting a calico aster.

Asian day flower is one of the few that show a true blue color.

A bee twirls and burrows in search of the nectar deep within a bindweed, or wild morning glory flower.

Queen Anne's lace is one of my favorite flowers. I learned about it from my grandmother when I was tiny.

Here is a pair of woodsorrel flowers, one in bloom, and one starting to form a seed pod.

This Hawk weed flower is one of my favorites, because it is possible to see so much detail in it.

You already know that I love this thistle photo, as it leads out this entire blog.

This is another favorite, looking very much like daisy fleabane.