Our pasture has blue ruellia, sunflowers, sharp-podded morning glories, and these beauties: Evening primrose ( photo / image / picture from marlingardener's Garden ) which are evening primroses. They blossom in clumps, and are pink, which contrasts nicely with the different grasses and other wildflowers. We only cut our pasture twice a year--perhaps three times this year with all the rain, but never when we have several wildflowers in bloom. Right now the butterflies and our honeybees are enjoying the autumn blossoms.
Sure looks lush! Wish I could convince my brother not to cut our pasture so often... especially when the wildflowers are putting on a show.
These primroses look so nice there. More and more folks are letting their wildflowers stand until they havebloomed out. This is a very important thing to do, especially for bees. One of the problems with our honeybee nummbers here is the loss of "natural" wildflower fields. This one of those win-win situations...and so lovely to see.
I think you're doing s great thing allowing your meadows to bloom with wildflowers. It's so important for our bees and butterflies to have this food source available to them. Keep up the good work!!
Thank you all for your kind comments. We get so much enjoyment just watching the wildlife in the pasture. Had Chipping sparrows today, sitting on the tall grasses and chattering among themselves. Daisybeans, if you want to come help clean out the coop, weed the vegetable gardens, and mow the orchard, I'll let you set up a tent in our meadow!
I'd love to stay in a tent near that meadow. What a lovely sight it must be in RL. The photo probably doesn't do it justice. The bee buzzing and bird chirping are such nice background sounds, don't you think?