Aug. 7 2022 - Wildflower Garden

This is a photo of the wildflower garden at our lake home in northern Minnesota. We have many different flower varieties, so there is always something blooming throughout the summer. However, I would say that the first part of August is the peak of the blooming season.

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Here’s a view from the other side. This spring we burned the garden area to get rid of old flower stalks. Burning seems to revitalize the garden, and it has responded with very vigorous growth this summer.

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As you can see in the previous photo, Wild Bergamot is one of the most abundant flowers in our garden. The leaves have a mint and citrus smell, and this flower is a favorite of bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies.

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We included Butterflyweed in our original seed mix, and it took four years before we saw any flowers. Now we have six clumps of this plant, and it seems to spread a little more each year. This is the biggest clump, and it gets larger each year.

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Long-headed Coneflowers are spread out within the garden.

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Deptford Pink is a very pretty flower, but it is also very small, about ½ inch in diameter. It’s so small, I have to use my macro lens to get a decent photo of it. This flower is easily overlooked in the garden, because not only is the flower small, but the stem is very thin as well. It’s one of my favorites, however.

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Giant Sunflowers are the tallest plants in our garden. We get a lot of them, so the garden definitely has a yellow appearance at this time of the year.

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Downy Phlox provides a showy grouping of flowers. It was blooming about a month ago and is now finished blooming.

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