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A seven-spotted lady beetle clinging to anise hyssop after a light drizzle.

#wildlifegardening #ladybeetle #insectphotography #yxe #anisehyssop

A small rusty red beetle with black spots is sitting on a upright cluster or spike of light mauve and green flowers. A few tiny water drops glistens on its back.

An eastern tiger swallowtail among the anise hyssop

#easternTigerSwallowtail #easternTigerSwallowtails #butterfly #butterflies #aniseHyssop #bloomScrolling #nature

A yellow and black butterfly, wings wide open in the center of the pic. Butterfly is sitting on a lavender-colored flowering plant. Other branches of the flowering plant and their long, green stems and leaves are on both the left and right of the butterfly. The distant background exhibits green-leaved trees slightly out of focus, along with patches of white-gray sky peeking through here and there.

Indiscriminate cuckoo bumblebee on the left, Hunt's bumblebee on the right, feeding on anise hyssop.

#bumblebees #huntsbumblebee #anisehyssop #wildlifegardening #yxe

2 bees sit on a mauve, lavender-like flower head. On the left is the larger one of the 2, all yellow and brown stripes, with quite a long abdomen. On the right is a slightly smaller bee, with yellow thorax, with a broad rusty brown band across the abdomen, surrounded by yellow, and with a black tip.

And as the evening moves on, the Hunt's bumblebees congregate on the anise hyssop, settling in for the night.

#huntsbumblebee #pollinators #anisehyssop #nativeplants #wildlifegardening #yxe

3 bumble bees, yellow with a rusty red band halfway around their abdomen, airh a little black bit at their tails, sit on mauve flower clusters that look a lot like lavender.

Great start for a garden wildlife weekend: Ruby-throated hummingbird visiting my anise hyssop. It also visited the great blue lobelia.

#rubythroatedhummingbirds #hummingbirds #gardenbirds #wildlifegardening #anisehyssop #yxe

A hummingbird dominates the center of the photo. The front (chin, neck, breast) is all white, and the back (head, back) are metallic green. The wings are blurred. It is feeding from a mauve and white, tall cluster of tiny flowers that look a bit like lavender. The background is blurry green.

#silentSunday #silverSpottedSkipper #butterfly #butterflies #aniseHyssop #bloomScrolling #nature

A silver-spotted skipper butterfly (pointed vertically upwards, right side view) resting on a green plant with bright lavender flowers. The butterfly is primarily brown, with a white stripe and a small splash of orange. It's antennae and eyes are visible as are its legs as they anchor onto the flower.

An orange-tipped wood digger enjoying the anise hyssop in the garden.

#bees #pollinators #nativebees #yxe #wildlifegardening #anisehyssop #nativeplants

A mostly black bee, with thin white bands around its abdomen, and slightly smaller than a honeybee, is feeding from a cluster of mauve, tubular hyssop flowers.

My Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) is in full bloom.

#nativeplants #anisehyssop #wildlifegardening #flowers #yxe

A number of purple flowers, a lot like lavender, rise on stalks above a see of green.

The hyacinths make a nice colorful almost circle.

#FlowerGarden #PollinatorPlants #hyacinths #BergamotBeeBalm #AgastacheFoeniculum #AniseHyssop #EchinaceaPurpurea #MonardaFistulosa #flowers #FlowersOfMastodon #PinkFlowers #YellowFlowers #PeachFlowers #BlueFlowers

A photo showing a circular flower bed. There are hyacinths blooming around three quarters of the circle. There are three wedges of bee balm, purple coneflower, and anise hyssop. The two other wedges are not growing rudbeckia and rusky sage which is just leafing out.

#Bombus #HalfBlackBumblebee #BombusVagans #AniseHyssop #BumbleBee #bees #LavenderFlowers #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #NativeBee #NativePollinators #pollinators #insects #wildlife #nature #MastodonOnly #CCBYNCND

A cropped square photo of a lavender colored flower that has a black and yellow bumblebee foraging on it. The flower is a showy verticillaster, or false whorl, in appearance with many small pointy tipped tubular blossoms.

Mostly rudbeckia hirta with the anise hyssop, purple coneflower, and bergamot bee balm around it. The rudbeckia was planted in exactly one fifth of the circular bed.

#BloomScrolling #flowers #florespondence #gardening #garden #PollinatorPlants #MonardaFistulosa #BergamotBeeBalm #RudbeckiaHirta #EchinaceaPurpurea #PurpleConeflower #AgastacheFoeniculum #AniseHyssop #hyssop #MastodonOnly

A photo nearly full of various flowers. In the foreground is a mass of rudbeckia hirta that are yellow mixed with some anise hyssop that is light purple-ish towards the left and a few purple coneflowers behind the hyssop that are pink. Tall and behind the rudbeckia are bergamot bee balm which is a pink or light lavender color. In the upper right are some hanging planters with mostly petunias, and in the upper left there are a few hollyhock flowers barely visible.

I grew this Anise Hyssop (#Agastache foeniculum) from seed. It was fairly tame the first two years, but it really took over this summer. In fact, it has crowded out a significant chunk of the Wild Bergamot! It is drought-tolerant (I haven’t watered it since the first year - low maintenance! 😁) and it attracts tons of pollinators.

#AniseHyssop #Hyssop #Mint #Lamiaceae #flower #wildflower #garden

This rudbeckia is a bit unruly.

#BloomScrolling #flowers #florespondence #PollinatorPlants #RudbeckiaHirta #EchinaceaPurpurea #PurpleConeflower #MonardaFistulosa #BergamotBeeBalm #AgastacheFoeniculum #AniseHyssop #hyssop #MastodonOnly

More than 100 rudbeckia flowers filling most of the photo. They are yellow with a dark center. In the upper right there is pink bee balm, above the rudbeckia in the center is some purple coneflowers and anise hyssop; Beyond all these is some liatris and daylilies visible.

A mix of black-eyed Susan's and Purple coneflowers with some bee balm and anise hyssop too.

#BloomScrolling #flowers #florespondence #PollinatorPlants #RudbeckiaHirta #EchinaceaPurpurea #PurpleConeflower #MonardaFistulosa #BergamotBeeBalm #AgastacheFoeniculum #AniseHyssop #hyssop #MastodonOnly

A mix of coneflowers and rudbeckia with some bee balm in the background and a bit of hyssop in the lower right. The coneflowers are pink, the rudbeckia is yellow, and the bee balm and hyssop are also pink or a light lavender perhaps.

I saw a bee on the hyssop, the rudbeckia is almost open, the purple coneflower stems are longer and the heads spikier, also a too many weird spots ladybug on the hyssop.

#gardening #GrowYourOwn #garden #PollinatorPlants #RudbeckiaHirta #EchinaceaPurpurea #PurpleConeflower #AgastacheFoeniculum #AniseHyssop #hyssop #MastodonOnly

A small Agastache foeniculum Anise Hyssop flower with a asian ladybug on a leaf to the right. The flower has many pointy tip petals in a spike of sorts that isn't very big yet. It is a bright lavender color.

A rudbeckia hirta flower that the petals are just starting to unfurl and the brown center is visible. The little not-leaf things around the flower are fuzzy. The petals are yellow.

An echinacea purpurea purple coneflower blossom that is still green and spiky but the stem is growing longer. The not-leaf parts around the flower are dark green, and the rim of the spiky part is light green and larger and the center is an in between green and small and spiky and dense.

A larger, or taller, flower of the Agastache foeniculum Anise Hyssop. This is where I saw the bee but it is not in the image.

Anise hyssop is starting to bloom #anisehyssop

A small purple pine one looking flower emerging from green leaves.

Two of the anise hyssops that were planted a day apart. First with frost damage, second without. It seems the older leaves were most susceptible to the frost but they were likely to die off anyway. There are green shoots on some of the browned leaf ones so I don't think any are actually killed off.

It was 2F degrees difference from one morning till the next and both there was frost.

#gardening #PollinatorPlants #hyssop #AniseHyssop #SeedStarting

A closeup photo of a anise hyssop plant that has some brown leaves from getting killed by frost. There are other leaves that are still green and fine. These were planted on March 28.

A closeup photo of anise hyssop, it is green without any brown leaves. It was planted on March 29 and the low the next day was 2F warmer.

Went back to previous thought on planting hyssop and cut holes with the bulb planter and put cardboard around them. I guess it will be an experiment to see if they do different than the trenched ones. 12 more in the ground! 28 to go.

I need to put sticks by them, which I see I forgot to do. I'm sure the chickens aren't taste testing them or trying to scratch in the hole. They'd never do that.

#gardening #PollinatorPlants #AniseHyssop #AgastacheFoeniculum