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Down The Road - NotMyGarden NMG - Mexican Sunflower Against a Clear North Carolina Sky - BUT, Check The PiPs - Monarch Butterfly - The Same One - The ONLY One - Thank You For BEING There - When I Was There ! 3 PiP

Down the Road at NotMyGarden- This plant is about 4 to 5 ft tall - Have never seen this before - So, can't give you any information about it - All suggestions - help is appreciated. Grows in full sun, North Carolina US [ Triad Area ] Thank you. 1 PiP plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/veronica Celosia argentea (Celosia Plumosa, Cockscomb, Cockscomb ... plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/celosia-argentea - put a request on Garden.org --- at least 6 people answered !

And all at once, summer collapsed into Fall. - Oscar Wilde

Mockingbird at the top of Season-Changing Dogwood leaves - 3 PiP 1 - Clematis - Kardynal Wyszynski 2 - Yakity Yak Flowers .. False Dragon Head, Obedient plant (Physostegia virginiana) 3 - Cascade of Dogwood Leaves and berries.. Season changes ..

- on a Buddleja - there were 3 colors, but this was the chosen one Down The Road @ NotMyGarden - Best viewed large - .. 2 PiP ..

Pollen gathering .. front back (PiP 1) sides not finished yet there is still more Cosmos are a great place for he who gathers and she who takes his photo.... 1 PiP

A Dark Swallowtail (f) next door on a Buddleja 4 PiP

Wings of beauty are a bit worn .. and ragged .. yet he keeps searching for nectar .. in the Mexican Sunflowers.. to me .. this is more than a photo of a butterfly .. it can be a life-lesson .. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” - Maya Angelou

[ Papilio glaucus ] Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - m - enjoying nectar of the Buddleja en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddleja thanks to my Dear Neighbor for planting this beauty ! - 4 PiP -