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fleabane

May 22, 2022 by Dave Bonta

The humid air is full of insects, filmy wings shining in the sun. In the herb garden, yellow eyes with white lashes: daisy fleabane in bloom.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags fleabane
June 15, 2015 by Dave Bonta

Yarrow, fleabane, silky dogwood… white is in style. But the cabbage white butterflies still prefer the purple remnants of dame’s-rocket.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags cabbage white butterfly, fleabane, silky dogwood, yarrow
August 16, 2014 by Dave Bonta

A scattering of white in my overgrown garden: soapwort, bindweed, fleabane, snakeroot. The sky brightens. A towhee calls from the lilac.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags bindweed, fleabane, lilac, soapwort, towhee, white snakeroot

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On This Day

  • April 27, 2025
    The sun climbs through blossoming oaks whispery with wind. Pileated woodpeckers exchange volleys of thunder. A downy woodpecker rattles like a beggar with a cup.
  • April 27, 2024
    Under a white sky, the rambling old white lilac is beginning to bloom. Half an hour past sunrise, the first, tentative raindrops on the roof.
  • April 27, 2022
    Cloudy and cold. One of the local redtails is hunting along the woods’ edge, flying from branch to branch​, head swiveling all about.
  • April 27, 2021
    Overshadowed by the sprawling French lilac like an opening act, the old bridal wreath bush keeps sending out white sprays.
  • April 27, 2019
    Bright and cold. The wind sounds different from the last time it blew this hard, more hush and rustle—tiny new leaves’ ambitious whispers.

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