October Blue Skies Arrived Early This Fall

And the garden residents are celebrating the sweetness of the days.

The tiniest pollinators

The smallest butterflies

The bottoms up blooming flowers

The really big Asters

The bumbles nectaring on the late blooming Golden Asters

Even the hiding predators are all appreciative of the cool mornings, the warm days, the gentle breezes and the brilliant blue sky.

But, no one at Clay and Limestone is celebrating the beginning of Autumn more than me!

I hope your days are filled with cool morning, warm days, blue skies and wonderful garden visitors.

xxoogail

1. Aster tataricus (read more at Pardon My Big Aster)
2. Verbesina virginica and Red-banded Hairstreak (Calycopsis cecrops)
3. Physostegia virginiana (more here)
4. A tataricus
5. Heterotheca villosa “Ruth Baumgardner” and pollinator (here)
6. Asclepias incarnata foliage
7. Conoclinium coelestinum with  Skipper 
8 A tataricus and Monarch Butterfly


Gail Eichelberger is a gardener and therapist in Middle Tennessee. She loves wildflowers and native plants and thoroughly enjoys writing about the ones she grows at Clay and Limestone. She reminds all that the words and images are the property of the author and cannot be used without written permission.