TheMondayGarden.com, Eco-gardening at its best
June 18, 2006, Issue 209, part 3
PICTURE: A black-and-yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia) with rudbeckia (black-eyed susans) in the background , Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford CT August 2005
AUGUST: UPLAND WOODS
PICTURE: Native fern, Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford CT August 2005. A turkey-tail shelf fungus can be glimpsed in the lower left.
AUGUST: EDGE-OF-FOREST
PICTURE: Pokeberry, Downtown Stamford CT August 2005
PICTURE: Deadly Nightshade, Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford CT August 2005
AUGUST: RIVERSIDE AND SWAMP
PICTURE: The blue berries of silky dogwood (cornus) half eaten by the birds, Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford CT August 2005
PICTURE: The flowers and orange stems of leafless dodder, a highly invasive, parasitic plant, Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford CT August 2005
PICTURE: The ripening berries of winterberry, the deciduous holly, Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford CT August 2005
PICTURE: The seed-head of a buttonbush, Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford CT August 2005
PICTURE: Late flowers on the Clethra (sweet pepper), Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford CT August 2005
PICTURE: Elderberry, Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford CT August 2005
PICTURE: Alder, Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford CT August 2005
PICTURE: Swamp blueberry, the berries long gone, starting to turn its lovely fall colors. , Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford CT August 2005
AUGUST: OPEN MEADOW
PICTURE: A natīve grass in flower in the meadow, Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford CT August 2005
PICTURE: Bee-balm with bee, Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford CT August 2005
Photo credits: Sue Sweeney Š Sue Sweeney 2006