It's #SeedTapping / #SeedsCollecting time. My #liatris & #zinnias have gone to seed. I'm collecting their #seeds to save, to share & to plant next year, in new spots around the backyard.

#bees feeding on #liatris flowers.

#Liatris flowers #ThemeSong.
Touch Me - The Doors
https://youtu.be/PECk9A-07Pw?si=6E6QGBLR1eEx7zXC

They're so soft & lovely to the touch
This plant is a fringey, free spirited, pollinators sex worker plant. It brings multiple pollinators action. This fabulous plant identifies as a garden swinger. It accepts love from multiple sources.

Bees and liatris.

I wait, patiently, every Summer, for my #purple #liatris flowers to bloom. They started blooming, this weekend

What's unique & interesting about liatris?

Their flowers bloom downwards & not upwards, like most other flowering perennial plants.
They're also food plants for larvae of some #Lepidoptera species including the #Flower #Moths #SchiniaGloriosa & #SchiniaSanguinea - both feed exclusively on liatris plants.

Aztec white #verbena.
#Liatris buds.
Red garden #cosmos.
Deep burgundy #clematis.

Garden strolling leads to #bloomscrolling.

The only fireworks I ever need.

#Bloomscrolling
#florespondence
#botany
#liatris
#sunflowers
#cactus
#helianthus
#astrophytum