Vergänglichkeit

Half-black bumblebees on the purple coneflowers and zinnias.

Bumblebee on a coneflower in the late afternoon sun.

Mostly rudbeckia hirta with the anise hyssop, purple coneflower, and bergamot bee balm around it. The rudbeckia was planted in exactly one fifth of the circular bed.

Bumblebee on a purple coneflower. Bombus vagans, the half-black bumblebee.

This rudbeckia is a bit unruly.

Purple coneflowers - echinacea purpurea showing some color finally and the black-eyed Susan - rudbeckia hirta has the cones developing.

Purple coneflower in the garden - one of my favorite garden plants. #gardening #purpleconeflower

The Purple Coneflower, echinacea purpurea, is starting to grow.

Everything in the new pollinator bed is growing except the salvia farinacea which might not have survived the cold, which isn't that surprising. Maybe put the two new Salvia yangii I have and move the others from the sunbaked area below the big windows to this spot. This keeps the whole bed as perennials.

Echinacea also know as a purple coneflower. Wonderful medicinal plant with lots of uses. Thursday's drawing. All the drawings I saw looked more pink than purple so I went halfway between that.