An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) dines on a Stoke’s Aster (Stokesia laevis) against a backdrop of Purple Coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea)
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An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) dines on a Stoke’s Aster (Stokesia laevis) against a backdrop of Purple Coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea)
© Cindy Dyer. All rights reserved.
A Fiery Skipper butterfly patiently awaits its turn behind a Bumblebee on a Stoke’s Aster.
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) on Stoke’s Aster (Stokesia laevis)
© Cindy Dyer. All rights reserved.
Photographed at Green Spring Gardens. © Cindy Dyer. All rights reserved.
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Easy-to-grow perennial ‘Blue Star’ Stoke’s Aster (Stokesia laevis) and unidentified yellow lily
Chide me not, laborious band,
For the idle flowers I brought;
Every aster in my hand
Goes home loaded with a thought.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
GIVE ‘EM SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT