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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

  • August 16, 2025
    In the wake of a quick hummingbird with her elegant wand, a bumblebee continues to work the jewelweed, clambering up into each orange throat.
  • August 16, 2024
    The sun in fragments through the trees behind the old dead maple, which has a distinctly joyous appearance now that it’s shed its top half.
  • August 16, 2023
    A mosquito rests on the arm of my Adirondack chair, watching the sunrise. A hummingbird surprised by a sudden movement buzzes toward me rather than away.
  • August 16, 2021
    Cloudy with 100% chance of migrating warblers: the yard is briefly possessed. I hear a noise, turn my head and meet a rabbit’s critical gaze.
  • August 16, 2016
    Two cabbage whites engage in a dogfight, or possibly a pas de deux. A leaf detaches itself from a lilac branch and turns into a hummingbird.

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Header image: detail from Paper Garden by Clive Hicks-Jenkins (used by permission)

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