Monarch caterpillar is progressing.

#FoliageFriday

Although I've always loved the beautiful foliage of #JapaneseBarberry shrubs, we've avoided adding any to our own gardens. They're highly invasive if not heavily controlled. Japanese barberry provides prime environments for #ticks to breed due to the high humidity in barberry's dense foliage. It's believed that spread of barberry is correlated with the spread of #LymeDisease.

I really wish stores/nurseries that sell plants would inform customers on problematic ones so folks can make more informed decisions. Many uninformed customers often buy Japanese barberry shrubs because they're deer resistant & visually appealing. I suggest avoiding it. It's been banned for sale in some USA states.
Just admire the shrubs in public cultivated gardens - don't grow them.

Monarch on Butterfly Weed.

Finally got around to #pruning a boxwood and two horribly misshapen yews.

I figured we'd have to just remove the yews, but then again, what better things on which to experiment with my pruning technique! I'd pretty much written them off when we moved in, but will see if they can come back with a bit of attention.

I'm a bit of a closet arborist. I quite enjoy the slow payoff of the pruning process.

#Monarch on the Butterfly Weed!

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*Sambucus racemosa* ([red elderberry](https://w.wiki/EPMV))looking decorative on a sunny spring day in the Forest

#PNW #USA #WA #ThurstonCounty #CSF #Nature #Flora #Plants #Shrubs #Flowers #Trees #TrailRunning #Outdoors #Photography #MobilePhotography

Hobblebush is now setting seed. That was fast. Pierce Road, #Harvard #Forest.

Spiny new growth on Devil’s Club - don’t touch. (Oplopanax horridus)

Hobblebush is now in full flower. The flowers are being enjoyed by two #pollinators.

#FootpathFriday and dreaming of #May when spring will be firmly in its stride. #Plants #Trees #Shrubs

I loved this scenic view in Capitol Reef National Park because of all the layers of flora and rock formations from a foreground of shrubs and grasses to distant background red rock cliffs. The scene shows the rugged beauty of the desert environment.

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This is one of my favourite plants. There was once a time when it was so common in gardens that it was viewed with snobbery. Too easy to grow. Too bright.

It is Kerria. I hardly ever see it now. I grow it in what passes for a tiny woodland clearing.

When first planted, the crows reacted furiously to the flowers and did a wrecking job. I have no idea what was going on in their heads.

Planted Shrubby St. John's Wort and 8 types of basil.

Sumac in the mist, North Quabbin region, central #Massachusetts.

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Fall colors from the scrublands outside of Yakima, Washington. The brightest colors were in a narrow band following a creek bed.

Enough of the unseasonal plants! Here's one that's doing what it is supposed to when it's supposed to - Cotinus Royal Purple - only it's turning orange.