Currently Happening In My Garden
Beautiful Orange Dragonfly
This Gulf Fritillary Caterpillar on a passion vine leaf is about the right size to crawl off and form its chrysalis!
My Turks Cap is starting to bloom!
Turk’s Cap (Malvaviscus drummondii) is an important plant for hummingbirds and their fall migration!
Butterflies and bees also love this native perennial to Texas.
Its flowers are reminiscent of a Turk’s turban, so that's how it got its common name.
Turk's Cap is also know as Drummond Wax-mallow, Texas Mallow, Mexican Apple, Red Mallow, May Apple, Wild Turk's Cap or Bleeding Heart in other places where it grows.
It ranges from the East and North Texas, The Texas Coastal Plain, east to Florida and also to the West Indies, Mexico and Cuba.
Have a Blessed Day!
July 7, 2018
All original photos taken by me