assorted gardening photos

[twoeleven]

i finally found a deer repellent that works, so i have nice tall glads again. but a powerful storm casually swatted them down, so i brought some indoors.



it's propped up in a corner of a window, since it's too top-heavy to stand by itself. this is one of the ten or twenty cent bulbs i got from a box one of my local supermarkets was selling cheap at the end of one summer a few years ago.

anybody know what this beetle is? it's over an inch long:



previous years' guerrilla gardening at the park have yielded some results, but the stands of wildflowers were pretty thin, and not very photogenic. this one looked good, if somewhat wilted.

Comments

[threemeninaboat]

Such a pretty glad!

[twoeleven]

Yes! We prefer the multicolored ones, but we can live with ruby red. :)

[bluepapercup]

Lovely color on that gladiolus!

[ranunculus]

I really should plant some glads. Every time I see a picture of a beautiful one like your Ruby I smile.
At least your guerrilla gardening did produce some result.

[rebeccmeister]

Black caterpillar beetle?

From a random web search and scouring photos, here: https://www.insectidentification.org/insects-by-type-and-region.php?thisState=Delaware&thisType=Beetle

[twoeleven]

thanks!

now you owe me only 43 homework lookups. :)

[rebeccmeister]

Hahahaha, I'm glad you're keeping track! :^D