June 2025 at Swallowtail
This month I have been looking back in gratitude at how much Swallowtail Garden has thrived. Each year my garden looks a little bit different… certain plants come and go, others decide to take over and must be managed, and sometimes a friend gives me a new plant to add to the collection. However, this is the first year I have done almost nothing to my garden. Here are a few of my favorite photos from June:
Coneflowers and black-eyed susans: perennial favorites
Liatris and a cabbage white
Swallowtail Garden in mid-June
June was especially rainy in Tennessee. Everything stayed good and lush!
Rain-soaked echinacea
Roses from the front porch
July and August are typically when we see the most butterflies, but we saw a few in June, too:
meadow fritillary at zinnia
Cabbage white at liatris
Bumblebee on echinacea
Echinacea, rudbeckia (black-eyed susan), and liatris: a classic color scheme
purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
American goldfinch (female) at a zinnia
I have also been trying my hand at plein air painting in watercolor lately:
Plein air painting from the balcony one afternoon
One of my favorite parts of June is the long summer evenings when the skies turn to lavender and fireflies glow from the fields. These are the moments to savor.
Swallowtail House at sunset
