I had the privilege of participating in Art in the Garden at the Naturescaping Wildlife Botanical Gardens in Brush Prairie last Sunday. These beautiful gardens, open year-round, are maintained by volunteers dedicated to teaching the community gardening ideas to attract wildlife to their gardens. This fabulous echinacea was blooming in the Flying Flowers Garden, which is a butterfly garden so full of blooming flowers right now that the perfume is almost overwhelming! I've been wanting to photograph echinacea at an herb farm out in Trout Lake, but I have yet to hear back from them. So in the meantime, I was thrilled to find this hardy patch of echinacea at the Naturescaping garden. I returned in the evening to photograph the flowers in the warm sunset light. No butterflies to be seen, maybe because of the late hour, but plenty of busy bees and hummingbirds.
