Flowers and Hummers

I still have some early summer photos to share with you.

I have taken some  photos of my garden flowers

along

with some hummingbird photos for you.

This is one of my "lemon lilies":

A yellow bearded iris. I love the fuzzy parts of the flowers above the beard hanging down:

A little clump of these tiny white flowers were growing wild in our lawn. 

I dug them out and placed them in my garden, where they have gone wild there

and make a lovely ground cover.

Does anyone know their name?:

Another flower that was given to me, it is a perennial that flourishes every year.

I am sorry to say I don't know it's name either!! (I'm a flower lover, not a flower expert!) ha:

This is a columbine, that I DO know! :0}

Another columbine caught in the shadows:

A hummingbird closeup:

Such a cutie pie:

I hope you  have a chance to

go out and smell some flowers today

and

maybe see some birds too!

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I like to wander in the woods and garden and get various plant, flower and wildflower photos.

Today, I am blogposting a menagerie of those type of shots for you that I have gathered over the last few weeks.

First, here is a cat tail that is starting to seed that was out in the woods:

And then: we found blackberry blossoms:

Here is a bouquet of wildflowers with my favorite Devil's Paintbrush in it:

I think this is a Goat's Beard blossoming. Anyone out there know for sure?:

We saw a lot of wild iris out in the ponds over the last few weeks, too. They are such a beautiful shot of purple and blue out in the fields of green:

Musk mallow grows all over wild in our area. I transplanted pink ones and white ones into my garden. They bloom for weeks and are maintenance free!:

Love this one that I finally got to self-seed in my garden!:

I saw these ferns in the middle of the woods with the sun spotlighting them. They were just asking to have their photo taken!:


Another wild iris I found out in the woods:

I hope you enjoyed the mixture of plants and flowers that I was lucky to see in the last few weeks of scouting!