Four Dancing Echinacea

©Robin Edmundson, 'Four Dancing Echinacea', watercolor, 10 x 8 inches.  

[Available framed, $280]

I was practicing echinacea on scrap paper and tossed this one aside for several weeks.  When I found it again, I loved the motion in it.

This is a wildflower in Indiana, but not around here.  I have planted dozens in the garden and they self sow pretty easily.  They're slowly starting to pop up in the edges of the scrub trees.   Shades of pink and white.  I love them.

Butterflies

K2 is very patient with the camera and she waited a while for these butterflies to settle so she could snap the pics.

This is a Great Spangled Frittilary on one of our naturalized echinaceas.   Pretty.

This looks like a dark version of a tiger swallowtail knee deep in one of our hosta flowers.   I rescued a few of these hostas from a property where they were being mowed down and over the years they have multiplied.  And multiplied.   The flower stalks are about three feet high and the butterflies, hummingbirds and bees cannot get enough of them.   The nectar must be really terrific.