u/Key-Treacle3384

Image 1 — Photo highlights (?) from my garden and another YouTube video
Image 2 — Photo highlights (?) from my garden and another YouTube video
Image 3 — Photo highlights (?) from my garden and another YouTube video
Image 4 — Photo highlights (?) from my garden and another YouTube video
Image 5 — Photo highlights (?) from my garden and another YouTube video
Image 6 — Photo highlights (?) from my garden and another YouTube video
Image 7 — Photo highlights (?) from my garden and another YouTube video
Image 8 — Photo highlights (?) from my garden and another YouTube video
Image 9 — Photo highlights (?) from my garden and another YouTube video

Photo highlights (?) from my garden and another YouTube video

I have the same screen name on YouTube as here but I'm trying not to promote tooo too much because I also like just sharing.

  1. Tahoka Daisy (I think)

  2. Seminole pumpkin reaching for the other side of the trellis (the pumpkins are really taking over.

  3. Coreopsis

  4. A cute pink cosmo stands out among the other plants (it stands out because I say it does)

  5. Either autumn beauty or chocolate cherry sunflower from saved seed.

  6. Gecko.

  7. Lovebird perched on a sunflower head (obscured by my cheap flower trellis.

  8. Queen butterfly. I'm calling him the dude in charge because he isn't letting anyone else near that plant.

  9. A white winged dove launches from my birdfeeder (AI disclosure: I used AI to remove the water spots that were are all over my window, otherwise the photo is dumb luck.)

u/Key-Treacle3384 — 5 days ago

Edit: hommie is a queen.

Hommie has control of the yard. Mostly camps out on Gregg's mistflower visits some milkweeds but spends a lot of time running off other butterflies and even flew to my neighbor's roof to run off a sparrow, makes me think male. The mistflower apparently has alkaloids that help with male pheromones. The little skipper in photo 5 is the only critter more aggressive right now. (And everyone hates the sulfur butterflies? Why? Like everything in the garden chases them)

Danaus gilippus

u/Key-Treacle3384 — 11 days ago
▲ 28 r/AZlandscaping+1 crossposts

I hope it's okay to share here, I'm trying to get it going specifically for the Arizona low desert.

I wasn't even thinking about camera orientation when I started, then I accidentally cut myself off halfway. I'm going to blame it on what I'm pretty sure is an ear infection.

Part 2 is on the way.

I'd love likes and comments on YouTube! And then if there are thumbs down 👎 put them here 😅 because likes and ALL comments on YouTube are good for the algorithm, but dislikes not so much.

No instructionals yet. I have some footage I want to get voiced over on a sunken bed, but I'm having technical issues with my ear and computer. 😵‍💫

u/Key-Treacle3384 — 12 days ago
▲ 44 r/AZlandscaping+2 crossposts

I don't know why, but this one pumpkin flower is super spicy 🥵🔥 if you're a digger bee. They fell out and... tussled in the mulch a bit before moving the party back to the flower. I even gave the flower a shake and menaced it with my hand and they were quite focused on their activities.

There were other male flowers open and activity there was quite mundane. I just hope there's a female flower open somewhere I didn't see and they moved this pollen party over there.

EDIT: the bee community has informed me these are likely squash bees different genus but also ground dwelling, and similar in appearance to California digger bees.

u/Key-Treacle3384 — 13 days ago
▲ 34 r/AZlandscaping+3 crossposts

Working backwards from tonight to earlier this month.

1, 2 so far my only bee balm

3 a variety of carrots from tiny, to rather large, to "is that a demon?" Cherry and "slicing" tomatoes, dark colored peppers, and broccoli

4 purple dragonfly pepper growing "butts up"

5 coreopsis growing from a patch of wildflowers going out of season.

6 a chocolate variety bell pepper shows off its deep reds when sliced (also it smells and tastes delicious! I'll try to find the tag)

7 the first cuts into chocolate bell peppers reveal a tomato-like to.

8 lovebirds pick at black oil sunflowers with multiple heads the long distance zoom from my phone reveals how much I really should take the screen off and wash the windows.

9 sunflowers rise above amaranth and other dense foliage.

10 dense foliage shows a variety of plants left to compete for sunlight. May the odds be ever in their favor

u/Key-Treacle3384 — 14 days ago