June week 4

Thought the hot weather continued, I got back outside this week when I went to the calcareous ravine talk at the Williamsburg Botanical Garden. Here's some of what was blooming in the garden:

At the entrance of the park were a couple of pretty but invasive mimosa trees. Luckily they don't seem to have spread farther into the park. Yet.

Other non-natives included daylily,butterfly bush,

and tall verbena (V. bonariensis).

Here's one of our native verbenas, swamp verbena (V. hastata).
Other natives in the garden were rattlesnake master,meadowbeauty,buttonbush,

milkweed,

black-eyed Susan,

St. John's wort,

soldier mallow,

wild quinine (this stuff blooms for a long time),

beautyberry (preparing for its fall display)

oxeye sunflower,

and phlox.

You can see the rest of my week 4 photos here.