Rewilding My Lot

We have a bench in our front porch, which faces east. So this is a favorite place for me to eat afternoon meals if I want shade, or morning meals if I want sun.

Even in mid-November, here in USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 9a, there are still plenty of plants in my little pollinator garden that are blooming and visited by insects.

On this day while I ate, I saw several bees mostly visiting the yellow Skeleton-Leaf Goldeneye. An American Bird Grasshopper rested in the grey-leaved Texas Barometer Bush aka Texas Sage. And there was even a Monarch butterfly that briefly visited the purple plants (Gregg’s Mistflower, Fall Aster, Black & Blue Sage). This is definitely one of my happy places.