Crabapples in bloom delight both the gardeners and wildlife.
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| Chipping Sparrow in Crabapple Tree |
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| 'Three Graces' ~ Crabapples |
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| The Other Side of 'Three Graces' |
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| Tops of 'Three Graces' Looking Over Towards Crabapple Orchard From Middle Meadow Garden |
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler in Crabapple Blooms |
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| Nashville Warbler in Crabapple Tree |
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| Clever Nashville Warbler Opening Crabapple Bud |
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| Nashville Warbler Moving on to Another Crabapple Tree |
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| Weeping Crabapple Behind Little Studio |
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| Red Admiral Sipping Crabapple Blooms |
The gardens are bursting at their edges . . . everything is moving in the fast lane and it is hard to keep up. Still it is a joy to experience the surge of growth and returning wildlife.
I have never seen so many butterflies at this time of year. A great many tiny Red Admirals and other butterflies floating about and within the many blooms. I saw my first Monarch Butterfly on May 7th . . . the earliest I have ever sighted one in thirty years. It was a male and I could not get a good photograph.
I am thrilled to have a native North American
Nashville Warbler Oreothlypis ruficapilla, that I originally mistook for a Common Yellowthroat female. How could I? The Indigo Bunting and Baltimore Orioles are back and I will be sharing some wonderful portraits of them coming up.
Encounters with a winsome weasel.
Happy Mother's Day to All of you MOMS out there.
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9 comments:
Hello Carol:
This post is absolutely intoxicating. Once again we are compelled to say how simply lovely Flower Hill Farm is where garden and landscape merge into a perfection many of us can only dream about.
The blossom, which you show, does this year seem to be exceptional. Yesterday we took a picnic and a train ride to Esztergom, an hour and a half from Budapest, and sat and ate our sandwiches overlooking the Danube to Slovakia on the opposite bank. And everywhere the Acacia trees were in bloom, their foliage the freshest of green not yet burnt by the summer sun. You would, we feel, have enjoyed it.
Is the Nashville Warbler indigenous to the United States, we wonder? Its yellow plumage is quite remarkable and you must be so excited having such a beautiful bird in the garden. Your opening image of the Chipping Sparrow on the bough is wonderful, a picture to treasure.
We must, of course, comment on the Red Admiral - a butterfly we DO know!!!!
Lovely photos of the crabapples. It makes me wish I had some. I wonder how much of their lives little birds spend upside down...
Dear, dear Carol ~ These photos are stunning, so beautiful and romantic.
I just love that little Nashville Warbler and the sparrow too. So sweet and innocent.
Thank you for these glimpses there at Flower Hill Farms. How wonderful to have all that beauty surrounding you.
Have a great weekend ~ FlowerLady
I want to sit at that table among the crabapples, sip some tea, stay longer, sip some wine, see all there is to see! I will have to keep watch for Monarchs - so soon! And the Yellow-rumped Warblers who stopped briefly by my garden last year, but they stopped. I had no idea that Nashville Warblers are such acrobats!
Dear Jane and Lance,
Thank you so for your ever generous words. Your outing to Esztergom (I would love to hear you pronounce it) sounds enchanting and indeed I would so enjoy seeing the Acacia in bloom with you someday . . . overlooking the Danube ~ Oh My! The fragrance must be heavenly. I wonder what species of Acacia yours might be . . . it seems your climate there might be too cold but then there are over 1,000 species and surely some must enjoy growing along the Danube.
Thank you for asking the question about the range of the North American Nashville Warbler! I have updated my post thanks to you. I am happy to learn that you too enjoy the Red Admiral . . . believed to be originally named Red Admirable.
Thank you Patty, It is amazing how some songbirds remind me of trapeze artist.
Thank you Dear Flower Lady and for your comment over at Native Plants and Wildlife gardens! You are so kind.
Kathy, You will just have to come when they bloom next year . . . bring your watercolors too. Thanks so for sharing!
As always - I love your posts and photos - when I grow up I wanna take photos like this!
Here in NZ our crab apples gave us an abundant supply and are now going dormant.
Love Leanne
oh my, exquisitely beautiful! i bet those birds nestled in the flowers have some sort of magical experience, high on flower petals. thank you for sharing the beauty of your world.
hello,
des couleurs pleins
les yeux ::::
vive le printemps
tout est splendide
edith ( iris )
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