Garden Center Visit/ 3

Continuing to walk around, I see a bench and fountain, hand carved in India out of marble,

and the pots, so many of them,

in different shapes

and materials.

I would guess,

most of are from

Asia.

Garden Center Visits/ 2

Here are stone planters,

and pots

benches,

chairs and fountains,

wall decorations,

doorways,

bas-reliefs,

and bird baths. All kinds of garden decorations.

Garden Center Visits/ 1

A trip to a garden center that has rectangles of lawn, tropical trees and statuary.

Many stone elephants

in a variety of

sizes.

Bird cages with doves

and finches

and cockatiels.

Summer Insects

By August many insects have gathered in my garden.  Here is a juvenile Mediterranean Mantis on a Zinnia.

Another Mantis, a California Mantis, is living on a pepper plant.

Sharing the pepper plant with the Mantis is a Tomato Hornworm.

A grasshopper lives on the roses,

as does a Katydid.

A Painted Lady butterfly visits the Zinnias.

Zinnias

I grow Zinnias every summer

in pots,

in the middle of my garden where they will get the most sun.

The flowers last a long time

and I always bring some inside.

Agapanthus

I alway look forward to the summer flowering of Agapanthus africanus.  

The blooms attract the hummingbirds.

The plant is sometimes known as

Lily

of the Nile.