You Grow Girl™

I stepped outside onto the roof the other day and discovered a remarkably iridescent blue bee hanging out on the ‘Centennial’ kumquat tree. At first I thought it might be one of the 2000 bees in The Halictidae Family. But it’s so blue, turquoise even! Can they be blue as well as shades of green?

Then I started to wonder if it is a bee at all. I’m still not very good about discerning a hornet from a bee. Or perhaps it’s an alien. They’re already here among us, just very tiny. This perspective is most likely reinforced by watching Alien and Aliens back-to-back recently.

I’ve looked around online and in the insect books on my shelf searching for identification but have come up short. I’ve never seen anything like it!

Minutes later a large dragonfly hovered around me. Some days my garden in the sky is more wild kingdom than the one on the ground.

I caught this hoverfly perched on a vibrant spiderwort just after a rainstorm the other day. Hoverflies are one of the garden good guys. The larvae of many species feed on aphids. More hoverflies!

I sat here for a good 10 minutes deliberating how to title this post and decided to play it safe, because truth be told, I have no idea what kind of clematis this is.

This yellow/green stunner is another from Barry’s garden and perhaps he will come by soon and identify it for us.

Here’s a second shot from beneath.

Probably not exciting to most, but I am loving the broccoli I am growing on the roof this year. I would hug them if I could. I’m clearly losing my mind and maybe need to get out more.