Blooms and more!
Our Irises are blooming now too. I don’t know what type they are, they were here when we bought the house:
I don’t know why these have all fallen over:
My small Lilac bush - Miss Kim, I believe - is starting to bloom. This is not a plant that butterflies really have an interest in and I don’t think they are native either. But I really like the smell of lilacs, so I planted just one small one a few years ago:
My husband has some Nelumbo lutea (American Lotus) growing in barrels. I bought the seeds from these from a place that sells just Missouri native plants. They are just starting to grow back:
Here some of the sunflowers my husband has started - he made little cages around them to keep the rabbits from eating them:
