Just really loving this unplanned patch of native Partridge pea that popped up in the front yard garden. #nativeplants #gardening
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So pleasing to the eye. I’ve started a thing called “selective“ weeding this year, where I only pull the grassy and poisonous stuff and leave the flowery, medicinal and ornamental leafy things. It’s starting to look cool.
jun 29, 2025, 9:06 am • 1 0 • view
That approach works great with natives!
jun 29, 2025, 1:07 pm • 2 0 • view
That’s what I’m finding. Discovering how large and edible looking dandelion leaves look well past the flowering stage. Foraging not looking so bad! 😃
jun 29, 2025, 1:20 pm • 1 0 • view
That is lovely-thanks for posting.
jun 29, 2025, 3:50 am • 2 0 • view
You’re welcome!
jun 29, 2025, 1:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Beautiful patch -
jun 29, 2025, 2:05 am • 1 0 • view
Thanks!
jun 29, 2025, 1:04 pm • 1 0 • view
I love this and we just lost the last two... All the rain pretty much doomed the two that were left. They had been struggling next to some Cardinal Flowers which are doing great again this year and all the pollinators and Ruby Throated Hummingbirds love it. Also little frogs. 🙂
jun 29, 2025, 2:05 am • 1 0 • view
Seeing this pretty little patch of green just lifted my spirits! Thanks.😊Much needed!
jun 29, 2025, 5:11 am • 1 0 • view
You’re welcome!
jun 29, 2025, 1:04 pm • 1 0 • view
That is really lovely!
jun 29, 2025, 12:42 am • 1 0 • view
Yes! The compound leaves are fascinating and beautiful.
jun 29, 2025, 1:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I was just reading one of Heather Holm's books on this. I knew about the extrafloral nectaries on the stems, but not that the flowers have no nectar at all! So the only nectar is just for defense from pests!
jun 29, 2025, 4:25 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s a fascinating feature of this plant! From what I’ve seen, ants and wasps love the extrafloral nectaries while bumblebees love the flower pollen.
jun 29, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s mimosa. It’s awful
jun 29, 2025, 11:40 am • 0 0 • view
Thankfully no, not mimosa. Been growing Partridge pea for several years now in this garden. Moves around to bare spots on its own, like this patch.
jun 29, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh ok, it looks a lot like mimosa
jun 29, 2025, 5:11 pm • 0 0 • view