POTD 6/7/26
PATIO GARDEN STARTING TO BLOOM - A Columbine Bloom. The flowers attract butterflies, bees, moths, and hummingbirds—but thankfully, not deer! This hardy plant is also quite resilient and drought-tolerant. Once started, columbine propagates for years and, although perennial, increases most rapidly by self-seeding. They have all but taken over our patio garden from self-seeding.
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Shelby(non-registered)
For those in the comments - if you haven't yet read The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger, I HIGHLY recommend it! Beautiful flowers, I just found some flowering in a roadside ditch near me (and not near another house). I'm hatching a plan to transplant them to my garden under the cover of darkness! (which is certainly not necessary, but makes the whole thing seem that much more exciting...)
BillN(non-registered)
nICE photo. Differentiation is an amazing process. A fertilized blob of cells under DNA instructions transforms itself into a beautiful thing. Beautiful to us as well as to bees
John M Poltrack(non-registered)
I am always amazed at the complexity of the shape of this flower, makes me wonder if there exists a energy template that the cells follow when developing. Same is true for orchids and pitcher plant flowers. Time to re-read "The Secret Life of Plants"
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