Bumble Bee on Purple-top Vervain

Photograph taken by on Friday, June 21, 2013
Bumble Bee on Purpletop Vervain

Bumble Bee on Purpletop Vervain

More insect pictures today. It’s starting to be bug time. Most of the bees I’ve been seeing are bumble bees (Bombus sp.). There are a lot of them on the gooseneck loosestrife (Lysimachia clethroides) but this photo is of one on the purple-top vervain (Verbena bonariensis), growing in the middle of our back yard. It used to be in the bed around two trees but the trees are gone now and we’ll see how it does with the extra sun.

Actually, as I look out back now, I see the curved outlines of that bed and think it might be just about the right shape and size for a significant water feature — part pond and part bog garden. That’s not going to happen before fall, but it might happen eventually. I’ll probably want to wait a year for the major roots to rot out a bit, then it should be a lot easier to dig there. I have at least one other design, though, and I’m not sure which I like better. So, we’ll have to see what happens.

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