Southeast US: bees & flowers & mushrooms (oh my!)

[pipisafoat]

In my (landlady's) front garden, there's a plant that seems to be a favorite of the local bee population. I have enjoyed watching them for quite some time and decided to share. The camera I'm using is, well, pretty slow, so it took a while to get these shots. (Again, all shots can be clicked for gigantic, uncropped version.)






Also in this garden, there's a mysterious (but quite nice) flower. Right beside the front porch. It gets visited by the salamander-types a lot, but they're too fast for me to share pictures of them, too. Further up in the yard, there is a tree stump that has been repurposed by some slightly enormous mushrooms.






(not the flower I promised you, Liz! because I am slow (and/or busy) and that's still on my camera. but I do have pictures of it! just have to remember to post them.)

Comments

[boxofdelights]

The plant with bees is basil. It gets quite pungent after it flowers, so you might as well leave it to the bees.

[dantesspirit]

Basil is the bee plant and Hibiscus is the flower. The mushrooms are typical wild detrius loving fungi. Not edible that I can tell.

[clare_dragonfly]

Is that why my mom always wants me to pinch the flowers off the basil? Huh. Well, my bunny doesn't seem to care whether it's pungent...

[boxofdelights]

That's right! Some people like it better after a few buds form too, but most people find that taste unpleasantly strong.

[spiralsheep]

The first image of the bee is especially lovely. Thank you for sharing! :-)

[pipisafoat]

Right! I knew it was something useful; we've used it when cooking before. I just couldn't remember which it was (and was happy to leave it for the bees, as they seem to quite enjoy it).

[pipisafoat]

Hibiscus, that sounds like a flower someone has tried to teach me before. I can never remember names of things, but I still like to look at them! hahaha.

[pipisafoat]

I like how you can see the fluffy fuzziness on that one! I always want to pet bees. (I hear that's not a common desire when faced with a bee.)

Glad you like! :)

[lark_ascends]

Pretty.