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With cooler nights from now on, some plants revived in the butterfly gardens and bloom more. Here are some photos from t...
09/24/2026

With cooler nights from now on, some plants revived in the butterfly gardens and bloom more. Here are some photos from the large garden by the Texas pond. The Texas Sage is spectacular now with its purple blooms and lots of honeybees visitors. Enjoy!

If you like caterpillars, here's a great video from Homegrown national Park. You can watch it for free until October 14.
09/10/2026

If you like caterpillars, here's a great video from Homegrown national Park. You can watch it for free until October 14.

Despite the scorching temperatures during this extended summer, some plants in our butterfly gardens are still blooming ...
09/10/2026

Despite the scorching temperatures during this extended summer, some plants in our butterfly gardens are still blooming and pollinators are still present - which shows that planting natives is the way to go for a garden. Here are some early morning images from the large butterfly garden by the Texas pond. Enjoy!

Despite the scorching temperatures during this extended summer, some plants in our butterfly gardens are still blooming ...
09/10/2026

Despite the scorching temperatures during this extended summer, some plants in our butterfly gardens are still blooming and pollinators are still present - which shows that planting natives is the way to go for a garden. Enjoy some of the photos taken at the ASSC garden.

Bumblebees like Turk's Cap flowers. They dive into the blooms most of the time, as in the posted images, or when their t...
08/31/2026

Bumblebees like Turk's Cap flowers. They dive into the blooms most of the time, as in the posted images, or when their tongues cannot easily reach the deep floral nectaries they use their strong mandibles to make holes at the borrow of the flowers to suck the nectar. This is called nectar robbing since bumblebees to not cross-pollinate the flower in this case.

I found a native bee on a sunflower inflorescence in the ASSC garden. It is a Curved Pebble Bee, Dianthidium curvatum (M...
08/26/2026

I found a native bee on a sunflower inflorescence in the ASSC garden. It is a Curved Pebble Bee, Dianthidium curvatum (Megachilidae), a species of solitary resin bee. Like other members of its genus, it builds and maintains its own nest rather than living in large colonies. Some pebble bees construct unique nests using small stones or pebbles glued together with resin (some collected from sunflower plants).
Enjoy some blooming plants photos as well.

My friend the rabbit visited me again at the large garden, grazing by the educational house. The grass is quite yellow d...
08/22/2026

My friend the rabbit visited me again at the large garden, grazing by the educational house. The grass is quite yellow due to 100+ temperatures these days but I assume the rabbit grazed on the grass juicy stolons.

The Texas Sage is in bloom at the large garden by the Texas pond. A brief decrease in temperature last week triggered th...
07/27/2026

The Texas Sage is in bloom at the large garden by the Texas pond. A brief decrease in temperature last week triggered the blooming. Enjoy!

The wilder, the better for looks and pollinators and biodiversity in general. The butterfly gardens are in full blooms n...
05/03/2026

The wilder, the better for looks and pollinators and biodiversity in general. The butterfly gardens are in full blooms now, here are some representative photos. Ehjoy!

Same species, three variations. This is biodiversity in action. Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) colors can range ...
04/30/2026

Same species, three variations. This is biodiversity in action.

Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) colors can range from deep magenta to pale pink, or even turn out double-faced in a genetic mutation called fasciation.

Fasciation is harmless and creates a "double-faced" or multi-headed appearance, like this Coneflower in our gardens.

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