Monday, September 6, 2021

Labor Day Weekend at the garden

Here are few photos take this Labor Day Weekend at the Gardens at Waters East. The last of the Summer flowers are blooming, and a couple of friends are enjoying their time hanging around the gardens on the shore of Lake Michigan.

 

Enjoy

 

Rudbeckia Goldstrum


frog on Scotch Pine


frog - notice the texture and colors


butterfly on Aster


one of the dayliles hybridized here in the gardens


native Cup Plant


Monarchs coming from Canada

gathering and resting for their long trip back to Mexico.

 Their "great grandparents" left Mexico earlier this year.

Now these great grandchildren return to the same place in the mountains - - - 

 never having been there!


Ghost Spider on Coneflower


More Monarchs gathering this weekend.

The groups are just beginning.

Last year there were hundreds and hundreds 

here at the Gardens at Waters East.


Joe Pye and Bumble Bee - notice the pollen


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  1. Ruth HiebertSeptember 6, 2021 at 8:22 PM

    Beautiful flowers. I would love to see a gathering of Monarchs like that.

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    1. Gardens at Waters EastSeptember 10, 2021 at 12:05 PM

      It is a sight to see! So many are in the garden and I suppose in properties all along the lake here. I have movies I posted last year but somehow people could not view them. There were thousands the day I recorded them - amazing!

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