Honeysuckle

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly On Honeysuckle

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly 

on The most Gigantic Honeysuckle Bush I've ever seen. It was a busy place for bees and butterflies. This Honeysuckle had a most powerful fragrance today.

The most gigantic Honeysuckle Bush I've ever seen.

It was covered in bees and butterflies. Honeysuckle has fragrance day and night but exudes its scent most powerfully during the evening.

Bush Honeysuckle with Hoverfly, also called flower fly, or syrphid fly, resemble wasps or bees but do not bite or sting. The larvae of many hover flies are predatory on aphids, so I’m glad to see them in my garden.

Mandarin Honeysuckle

Honeysuckle Vine Budding

Honeysuckle Vine Flowering

This a Honeysuckle vine, I found growing in the woods, near water, in Vermont. 

Honeysuckle vine, Lonicera.

Honeysuckles are arching shrubs or twining vines in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to the Northern Hemisphere. Approximately 180 species of honeysuckle have been identified.

Sometimes called “woodbine.” The flower, seed, and leaves are used for medicine. The honeysuckle flower is commonly used to help ease the flu, colds and sore throat. Honeysuckle is also used for urinary disorders, headache, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer. Some people use it to promote sweating, as a laxative, to counteract poisoning, and for birth control.

Honeysuckle essential oil is one of the most popular products derived from this plant, for medicinal uses as well as hair and skin care.

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My blog is meant to inform and I strive to be totally accurate. It is solely up to the reader to ensure proper plant identification. Some wild plants and mushrooms are poisonous or can have serious adverse health effects.

Painted Turtles On World Turtle Day

Painted On Green Shadow Of A Painted Turtle On Wood In A Pond Full Of Duckweed.

The painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) is the most widespread native turtle of North America. In the wild, painted turtles are omnivorous-they eat fish, insects, plants, fruit, carrion, and anything else they find. Painted turtles sleep underwater, buried in the sand or mud at the bottom of their habitat. They can breathe air and also absorb oxygen in water. Painted turtles do not have teeth. They have a hard beak that allows them to chew, but they prefer to swallow their food whole. A painted turtle shell is made of bone and is connected to the spine and ribs. The shell of a painted turtles is made up of 13 separate bone plates called scutes. When the turtle grows, it sheds the outermost layer of these scutes and grows new, larger plates underneath. The age of a turtle can be determined by counting the rings on the scutes; every time the turtle sheds an old scute, the new scute has another ring around its outer edge, giving it the same ringed look of a cross section of a tree. Turtles have no vocal chords, but they can sometimes make hissing sounds.
       Duckweed, or water lens, are flowering aquatic plants which float on or just beneath the surface of still or slow-moving bodies of fresh water and wetlands. Also known as "bayroot", Duckweed is an important high-protein food source for waterfowl and also is eaten by humans in some parts of Southeast Asia. The tiny plants provide cover for many aquatic species. Duckweed is being touted as a miracle plant for many reasons including: Cost effective renewable energy, biofuel Water filter, Mosquito prevention, Prevents algae growth, Reduces evaporation on bodies of water, Virtually free animal feed, Food for humans.

Painted Turtle On Wood In A Pond Full Of Duckweed

Turtles and their reflections at Indian Brook Reservoir.

This Baby Has Attitude

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World Bee Day!

Save The Bees!

Bee Visiting Globe Allium

Tips to help save the bees:

 Plant diverse types of flowers in your landscape. Make sure you have something in bloom from April through the hard freezes of early November. The most critical time for bees is early spring. 

 Avoid purchasing plants that may have been treated with insecticides which could harm bees and other insects when they collect the plant’s nectar or pollen. Purchase plants that are labeled as neonicotinoid-free or better yet, GO ORGANIC.

Orange-belted Bumblebee 

on ground ivy, also known as creeping charlie. Bombus ternarius, or tricolored bumblebee, is a yellow, orange and black bumblebee. It is a ground-nesting social insect whose colony cycle lasts only one season, common throughout the northeastern United States and much of Canada.

Bee On Hellebore

Bumble Bee On False Indigo

Bumble Bee On Lilacs

Bumble Bee On Lobelia

Bees On Sunflower

Bee Napping On Cosmo

Bee On Purple Liatris

Bee On Bleeding Hearts

Bee On Anise Hyssop

Bumble Bee On Echinacea

Bumble Bee On Sunflower Maximillion

Bees On Echinacea

Bee On Echinacea

Bee In Gentian Flower

Bee On Black Eyed Susan

Bees On Globe Allium

Bees On Crocuses

Bees Dancing In A Crocus

Sweat Bee On Crocus

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Enjoying Spring In Vermont

One of my favorite things to do in the Spring, 

hang out amongst the blooming trilliums.

Me Amongst The Roots.

Thank you Patty Garvey for taking this photo.

 Me Loving A Gorgeous Green Mossy Wall In The Forest.

Thank you Ashley Jones for taking this photo.

Just Me Enjoying Spring in Hinesburg!

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Arugula Flowers

Arugula Flowers
Who knew Arugula flower are so cool looking!

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Columbine

 Blue & White Columbine

Purple  Columbine

 Pink Columbine

So Pretty In Pink

Columbine In Purple & White

 Purple  Columbine

 Wild Columbine

 Wild Columbine

Wild Columbine & Wild Blueberry Flowers

Wild Columbine or Aquilegia canadensis is an herbaceous perennial native to woodland and rocky slopes in eastern North America, prized for its red and yellow flowers. This beautiful woodland wildflower has showy, drooping, bell-like flowers equipped with distinctly backward-pointing tubes, similar to the garden Columbines. These tubes, or spurs, contain nectar that attracts long-tongued insects and hummingbirds especially adapted for reaching the sweet secretion. It is reported that Native Americans rubbed the crushed seeds on the hands of men as a love charm.

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Dandelions & Forget Me Nots

 

Forget Me Nots & A Dandelion. 

Happy National Wildflower Week!

Forget-me-not, Myosotis sylvatica. The word "Myosotis" in the species name comes from Greek words meaning "mouse ear."

Forget Me Nots & Dandelions

Dandelions

Taraxacum are one of the first foods for native bees in spring. Before the invention of lawns, people praised dandelions as a bounty of food, medicine and magic. Gardeners often weeded out the grass to make room for the dandelions. But somewhere in the twentieth century, humans decided that the dandelion was a weed. Dandelions are good for your lawn. Their roots loosen hard-packed soil, aerate the earth and help reduce erosion. The deep taproot pulls nutrients such as calcium from deep in the soil and makes them available to other plants. While most think they’re a lawn killer, dandelions actually fertilize the grass.

For millenniums, people have been using dandelion tonics to help the liver remove toxins from the bloodstream and as a gentle diuretic that provides nutrients and helps the digestive system. Dandelions are actually more nutritious than most of the vegetables in your garden. The flowers, leaves, & roots can be used as food and medicine. The flowers can be used to make wine. Dried or roasted roots can be used as a no-caffeine coffee substitute.

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