The Garden of Bogturtle

  Fun trying to be quick enough to get this Monarch butterfly with wings open, as it quickly opened and shut them. It spend a lot of time on Buddlea weyerianna 'Honeycomb'. A cultivar originally from Scotland, I think.  The repeat blooming Daylily 'Happy Returns' has never been without a flower for months now. Last year I cut it to the ground, never happy that some brownish leaves always come. Full Sun and sandy, dry soil may cause that. At any rate, the foliage came back beautifully and I did get repeat bloom, but with nonstop flowering, this Summer, I did not cut it back. The center bed in the lawn, where this Daylily blooms, will be trimmed to the ground with a string trimmer, leaving any desired plants, and then I will smother the trimmed back weeds with 3 to 4 inches of fresh wood chips. The chipper, shredder has worked easily and with so many trees taken down to provide more Sunlight for solar panels on the roof, there is an endless supply of branches to be chippe...