Monday, July 30, 2012

Worlds of phlox and insects

The "Song of the Phlox Fairy"
August in the garden!
Now the cheerful phlox
Makes one think of country girls
Fresh in summer frocks.
There you see
 magenta, 
 Here a lovely                                        
 white
 Mauve, and pink
and cherry-red
       Such a pleasant sight!
Smiling little fairy
Climbing up the stem
Tell us which is prettiest?
She says “All of them!

by  Cicely Mary Barker 



Worlds of phlox flowers and insects, these two worlds intersect, the flowers are food for many insects.

Each of them lives its own life.
Lovely fragrant phlox delight people with their beauty and tenderness.
      


The butterflies eat nectar, the dragonfly flits easily around my pond where it was born in the spring.






Insects do not always please people, and often scare people with his appearance and behavior. A small spider has woven a web and catches flies on our window.

 
 










 
It's a spider nest on Thuja, there have already appeared the small spiders.







29 comments:

  1. Какие красивые фотографии, Надежда! У Вас очень красивый сад :о) Восхитительные цветы ! Спасибо что поделились с нами.
    Я Ваш новый подписчик :о)
    С любовью из Москвы
    Наташа

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    1. Спасибо, Наташа! Я очень люблю мой сад, это верно и хочу поделиться этой красотой с другими садоводами. Thank you for following my blog, Natasha!

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  2. These pictures are absolutly fantastic, dear Nadezda!
    The white phlox reminds to precious porcelain ...

    Greetings from the other end of the Baltic Sea

    Meggie

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    1. Meggie, I'm glad you loved my photos, thank you! I hope you have a nice summer weather on the other side of our Baltic sea.

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  3. Nadieżdo!
    Your phloxs and photos are lovely.
    And insects are very mysterious!
    Thank you for the fantastic comments.

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    1. Lucia, thank you for nominate me to Versatile Blogger Award. And congratulation to you!

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  4. Hi Nadezda, Phlox are my favourites at this time of year. Your spots of the spiders are amazingly detailed. It is beautiful to look across the web and see its design.

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    1. yes, I think the same, the spider's web is bright in sunlight. Thank you!

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  5. Your pictures are gorgeous Nadezda !
    My son should have been an entomologist .. he is fascinated by spiders and has had a few spider pets!
    Phlox is very pretty .. I will have to have some one year : )
    Joy

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    1. Joy, it's great that your son isn't afraid of spiders! I hope he'll be real scientist. Thank you!

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  6. I like the poem you included with the beautiful photos. I have a little bit of phlox in the garden that blooms in the spring.

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    1. I was looking for special poem to these lovely phlox, thank you!

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  7. Oh your photos are just gorgeous!! Phlox is always so pretty!

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    1. Thank you, Alicia! I wanted to write my comment on your site, but it was impossible.

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  8. My garden is also full of phlox right now, they save the day with their bright colours! I love the poem you have chosen to go with your pictures, so cheerful and pretty as is the picture of your butterfly :)

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    1. Rosemary, I'm glad you liked this poem! Every time I read your posts with nice poems, I think: I have to find any poem to go with my photos too!

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    2. Thank you Nadezda, poets seem to say exactly what I'm feeling much better than I ever could :)

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  9. Your phlox is beautiful!! I like spiders in my garden, but not in my house. :o)

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    1. Tammy, so do I! These spiders are very small, on a photo you can't imagine their size, they live in my garden with flowers.

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  10. Very pretty, Nadezda. I'm not a fan of spiders but I love the perspective of the webs in these images.

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    1. Thank you, Hilary, I'm glad you as the photographer liked the web perspective.

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  11. oh what wonderful pictures! I love phlox too Nadezda with their heady fragrance.

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    1. Lona, I love to walk by phlox at the evening, their fragrance is stronger. Thank you!

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    2. Beautiful photos Nadezda, with such detail! The dainty phlox flowers are very pretty. Nature is amazing the way insects and flowers depend on each other to survive.
      Hope you have a good Friday and an enjoyable week-end.

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    3. Betty, thank you! You're right, the flowers and insects depend on each other.

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  12. Nadezda I love your phlox pictures as most of mine have faded in the drought. And Cicely Mary Barker's poems and fairies are my favorite.

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    1. Donna, I'm very sorry the drought was so long time in your garden. This poem "Song of the Phlox Fairy" I found by chance and I loved it. Thank you!

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  13. Great photography! I miss phlox and its fragrance, the tall phloxes just won't grow here...

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    1. When I feel a strong fragrance I turn my head to find where it's from and see these lovely phlox. I planted them in different places of my garden this spring. Thank you, Masha!

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